Wear Devon Family History Guide
Wear is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Devon, created in 1840 from Topsham Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Countess Weir, Topsham St Luke, Countess Wear
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1844
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COUNTESS WEIR, a chapelry in Topsham parish, Devon: near the Yeovil and Exeter railway, 3 miles E by S of Exeter.
It was constituted in 1844. Post town, Exeter. Pop., 508. Houses, 95. There are a few gentlemen’s seats and a paper mill.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £100. Patron, the Incumbent of Topsham. The church consists of nave and chancel, with a small hell-turret; and was built in 1838.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: St Thomas
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Aylesbeare
- Poor Law Union: St Thomas
- Hundred: Wonford
- Province: Canterbury