Harpford, Devon

Historical Description

Harpford, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands in the valley of the Otter, 3 miles NW of Sidmouth, and 1 mile from Tipton station on the L. & S.W.R., and was formerly called Happerford. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Ottery St Mary. The parish contains also the hamlets of Bowd, Southertown, and Burrow. Acreage, 1536; population of the civil parish, 219; of the ecclesiastical, 329. Court House was the seat of the Dyn-hams, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Venn Ottery, in the diocese of Exeter; value, £190 with residence. The church is ancient, and consists of nave, chancel, N aisle, and S porch, with an embattled tower, and was entirely restored in 1884.

Administration

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

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 Harpford

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 Harpford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Harpford (St. Gregory))
• History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devon, by William White, 2nd edition, 1878-9

Maps

Online maps of Harpford 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:

• Western Times
• Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
• Western Morning News
• North Devon Journal
• Exeter Flying Post

Villages, Hamlets, &c

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.