Kilmington, Devon
Historical Description
Kilmington, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands adjacent to the river Axe, 1½ mile W by S of Axminster station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office .under Axminster; money order and telegraph office, Axminster. Acreage of parish, 1788; population, 558. The village was originally called Kilmenton; is said to have got that name, signifying " the place of slain men," from a great slaughter of Danes in the time of Athelstan; and has a cattle fair on the first Wednesday of Sept. The manor belonged to the Torringtons, but a great portion of the land came, about 200 years ago, into the possession of the Tucker family. Coryton .Park, the seat of the Tucker family, is a noble mansion of 1756, and commands fine views of the Axe and the Yarty valleys. Kilmington Hill is noted as the peculiar habitat of Lobelia wrens. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Axminster, in the diocese of Exeter. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1862, comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, and is in the Later English style. There is a Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Devon | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Kilmington St. Giles | |
Hundred | Axminster | |
Poor Law union | Axminster |
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 Kilmington
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 Kilmington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kilmington (St. Giles))
Maps
Online maps of Kilmington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
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.