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Abbotskerswell, Devon

Historical Description

Abbots-Kerswell or Abbots-Carswell, a parish in Devon, 2 miles S of Newton-Abbot station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Newton-Abbot, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1486; population, 431. The minerals comprise limestone, potter's clay, and alum. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £276. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The ancient church was a cell of Montacute Abbey. The present church is a neat small edifice of nave, chancel, and aisles, with a square tower. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyDevon 
Ecclesiastical parishAbbot's Kerswell St. Mary 
HundredHaytor 
Poor Law unionNewton-Abbott 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the South West Heritage Trust, Parochial Church Council, and Devon Family History Society have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Abbotskerswell


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Abbotskerswell from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Abbotskerswell are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Devon online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1564, with additions from the earlier visitation of 1531, is online.

The Visitations of the County of Devon, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by Lieutant-Colonel J.L. Vivian, published for the author by Henry S. Eland, Exeter 1895 is online.

DistrictTeignbridge
CountyDevon
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtTQ12
Post TownNewton Abbot

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