Warkleigh, Devon
Historical Description
Warkleigh, a parish in Devonshire, 4 miles from Umbereigh station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under South Molton; money order office, Chittlehampton; telegraph office, Umberleigh railway station. Acreage, 2455; population of the civil parish, 236; of the ecclesiastical, 281. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory, with Satterleigh annexed, in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £270 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, with an embattled western tower.
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 | Warkleigh St. John | |
| Hundred | South Molton | |
| Poor Law union | South Molton |
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 Warkleigh
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 Warkleigh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Warkleigh (St. John))
Maps
Online maps of Warkleigh 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.