Wembury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Other places in the parish include: Down Thomas, Knighton, and Neighton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Werburgh
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1611
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1614
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WEMBURY (St. Werburgh), a parish, in the union of Plympton St. Mary, hundred of Plympton, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, 5¼ miles (S. by W.) from Plympton-Earls; containing 616 inhabitants.
The parish is bounded on the south and west by the English Channel, and on the east by the river Yealm. It comprises 2565 acres, of which 137 are common or waste; the surface is boldly undulated, and the views over the Channel and the adjacent country are interesting and extensive. Nearly opposite to the church, from which it is about two miles distant, bearing west-south-west, and at the entrance of Plymouth Sound, is the small island called by mariners the Mew Stone.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £83; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Windsor, whose tithes have been commuted for £380. The church occupies the brow of a bold eminence on the shore, and is in the later English style, with the exception of the north aisle, which is of an earlier period, and substantially built of granite. In the chancel is a curious monument to Sir John Hele, serjeant at-law in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.; and in the south aisle is a massive tomb inscribed to the memory of Lady Narborough, dated 1678.
An almshouse for ten people was founded and endowed in 1625, by Sir Warwick Hele.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Devon, Wembury – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions, of St. Werburgh’s Church, Wembury, NR, Plymouth, Devon, England
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission
England, Devon, Wembury – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wembury, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Devon, Wembury – Church records ( 6 )
City of Plymouth marriage index : index of brides and grooms taken from the post 1837 Plymouth Church of England marriage registers held in the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office in partnership with the Devon Family History Society
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office; Devon Family History Society (England)
England, Devon, Wembury, bishop’s transcripts, 1615-1845
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wembury (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)
England, Devon, Wembury, parish registers, 1611-1950
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Wembury, Wesleyan Methodist, Down Thomas, parish registers, 1939-1950
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Parish register transcripts, 1611-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wembury (Devonshire)
Wembury marriage registers, 1813-1837
Author: Devon Family History Society (England)
England, Devon, Wembury – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
The Deanery of Plympton
Author: Devon Family History Society (England)
Parish register printouts of Wembury, Devon, England ; marriages, 1612-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Wembury, Devon, England, christenings, 1611-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Devon, Wembury – Land and property ( 3 )
England, Devon, Plymstock and Wembury, inland revenue valuation book, 1910
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Wembury, land tax assessments, 1886-1920
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Wembury, parish registers, 1611-1950
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Wembury – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
England, Devon, Wembury, parish registers, 1611-1950
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Wembury – Taxation ( 4 )
England, Devon, Plymstock and Wembury, inland revenue valuation book, 1910
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Wembury, land tax assessments, 1886-1920
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Wembury, parish registers, 1611-1950
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Land tax assessment for Wembury, 1780-1830
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire)
Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Plympton St Mary
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Plympton
- Poor Law Union: Plympton St Mary
- Hundred: Plympton
- Province: Canterbury