Stokeinteignhead, Devon Family History Guide
Stokeinteignhead is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include: Plymouth Brethren
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STOKEINTEIGNHEAD (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Newton-Abbott, hundred of Wonford, Teignbridge and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (S.S.W.) from Teignmouth; containing 591 inhabitants.
The parish is situated about a mile from the coast, in a deep, narrow, and thickly-wooded valley, and comprises by admeasurement 2040 acres.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £36. 15. 10.; net income, £467; patron, the Bishop of Exeter: there is a glebehouse, and the glebe contains 40 acres. The church is a cruciform structure, containing some good screenwork: it anciently belonged to a college for a warden and several chaplains, established in honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew, by John de Stanford, in the reign of Edward III.
The manor belonged in the reign of Henry II. to the family of Fitzpayne, of whom Sir Robert Fitzpayne sold it to the above John de Stanford, who was made chief baron of the exchequer in 1346. It afterwards passed, by successive female heirs, to the Brightlys, Cornus, and Speccots; and was held in later times, in succession, by the families of Scawen, Nicholls, and Trehawke: John Trehawke, Esq., who died about 1790, bequeathed it to the Kekewich family.
The lords of the manor had formerly the power of inflicting capital punishment. Fossil remains are frequently discovered, among which are madrepores.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Newton Abbot
- Probate Court: Pre-1848 – Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, Post-1847 – Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1848 – Kenn, Post-1847 – Ipplepen
- Poor Law Union: Newton Abbot
- Hundred: Wonford
- Province: Canterbury