Coffinswell, Devon Family History Guide

Coffinswell is a chapelry of St Marychurch Ancient Parish in Devon.

Other places in the parish include: Daccombe.

Parish church: St. Bartholomew

Parish registers begin: 1560

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Coffinswell

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COFFINSWELL, a parish in Newton-Abbot district, Devon; on the Torquay railway, near Kings-Kerswell station, 4 miles SE of Newton-Abbot. It includes the hamlet of Daccombe; and its post town is Kings-Kerswell, under Newton-Abbot. Acres, 1,126. Real property, £1,784. Pop., 194. Houses, 44. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Sir W. P. Carew, Bart. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of St. Mary-Church, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is old and neat, but not good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Coffinswell, 3 miles S. E. Newton-Abbotts. P. 215

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

COFFINSWELL (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Newton-Abbott, hundred of Haytor, Teignbridge and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Newton-Bushell; containing 215 inhabitants. The parish comprises 1035 acres, of which 60 are common or waste. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of St. Mary Church: the Dean and Chapter of Exeter receive a tithe rent-charge of £133, and the incumbent one of £105.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Daccombe

Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Daccombe, a hamlet in Coffinswell parish, about a mile from Coffinswell village, in Devon.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A Fullerton & Co. N.d.c. [1870-72].

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Devon
  • Civil Registration District: Newton Abbot
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Ipplepen
  • Poor Law Union: Newton Abbot
  • Hundred: Haytor
  • Province: Canterbury