Bridestowe
Bridestowe is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Lifton Hundred. It falls within Okehampton Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 581 in 1801 457 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.In 1641/2 110 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Okehampton & Tavistock Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website
Maps: The image below is of the Bridestowe area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.
On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 88/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 88NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX514894. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX58NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Outdoor Leisure 28, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 324 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Bridestowe as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.
