Coffinswell
Coffinswell is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Haytor Hundred. It falls within Ipplepen 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 261 in 1801 201 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 86 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Kingskerswell 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 Coffinswell 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 116/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 116NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX890685. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX86NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
COFFINSWELL The great Iron Age earthwork of Milber Camp is partly in this parish, and partly in Haccombe with Combe. The church (St. Bartholomew) has a crude W. tower of 13th century date; a nave and chancel probably of the same date; a small S. transept added early in the 14th century; and a N. aisle early in the 15th. The N. arcade of Beer stone has curiously carved capitals. On the capital of the W. pillar are the arms of the Scobhull, Holbeam, Leyton, and Gambon families. The font is a finely carved late Norman structure, with a bowl and shaft of Caen stone. Notice the wagon roofs and the fine oak lectern. Court Barton, near the church, was the manor house, and has much early 16th century work, including some granite mullioned windows.
