Babbacombe, Devon
Historical Description
Babbacombe, a parish in Devon, 2 miles from Torquay station on the G.W.R. The scenery here is very fine, and the place has grown from a sequestered little spot into a well-built and rapidly increasing village. The church is a splendid edifice, built in 1873. The living is a vicarage; gross value, £395, in the gift of the vicar of St Mary Church. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Population, 1645.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of Babbacombe 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.