Clannaborough
Clannaborough is located within Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of North Tawton Hundred. It falls within Cadbury 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 59 in 1801 42 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 21 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Crediton 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 Clannaborough 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 54/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 54SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS747025. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS70SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 324 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
CLANNABOROUGH is a small parish with no village. The church, dedicated to the Celtic saint Petrock, lies just off an undoubted pre-Roman trackway, and commands a tremendous and beautiful view towards the northern ramparts of Dartmoor. It is an attractive little building outside, in a simple 16th century style, but its interior was over-restored in 1858-9. The Barton was a Domesday manor; the present house was built c. 1800. Appledore and Walson Barton were Domesday estates also. Clannaborough gets its name from "the cloven hill " here-Clouene- berge in 1239.
