Buckland Monachorum Devon Family History Guide

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Buckland Monachorum is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon. Horrabridge is a chapelry of Buckland Monachorum.

Other places included in the parish: Milton, Milton Combe, Yelverton

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Bible Christian Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUCKLAND-MONACHORUM, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Tavistock, Devon.

The village stands near the river Tavey, and near the Horrabridge station of the Tavistock railway, 4 miles S by E of Tavistock; and has a post office, of the name of Buckland, under Plymouth. It formerly was a market town; and still has a fair on Trinity-Monday.

The parish includes also the hamlet of Milton, and part of the village of Horrabridge. Acres, 6,338. Real property, £6,155. Pop., 1,489. Houses, 290. The property is subdivided.

The manor belongs to Sir Lopes Massey Lopes, Bart. Buckland Abbey, a Tudor edifice, was the favourite residence of Sir Francis Drake, the famous navigator; contains some interesting souvenirs of him; and is now the seat of his descendant, Sir T. T. F. E. Drake, Bart. Grapstone, Bickham, and Pound are the seats of respectively the Leaches, the Gills, and the Bullers.

A Cistertian Abbey was founded in the parish, in 1278, by Amicia, countess-dowager of Devonshire; castellated by one of its abbots; given, at the dissolution, to Richard Greyfield; and garrisoned during the civil war. Small but interesting remains of the buildings still exist. There are several copper mines, and a tin mine.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of St. John’s, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £430. Patron, the Rev. Dr. R. Hayne. The church is perpendicular English, and cruciform, with a tower; and contains carved old seats, a decorated ceiling, and a monument, by Bacon, to Lord Heathfield, the defender of Gibraltar.

A Baptist chapel is in the village; and a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan chapel are at Horrabridge. A school has £10 from endowment; and other charities have £18.

The subdistrict contains six parishes and part of another. Acres, 86,562. Pop., 8,698. Houses, 1,447.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Devon
  • Civil Registration District: Tavistock
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Tamerton
  • Poor Law Union: Tavistock
  • Hundred: Roborough
  • Province: Canterbury