Colaton Raleigh
Colaton Raleigh is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of East Budleigh Hundred. It falls within Aylesbeare 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 627 in 1801 474 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £08/11/06.
A parish history file is held in Budleigh Salterton 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 Colaton Raleigh 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 93/4,94/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 93NE,94NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SY080875. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SY08NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 030, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 326 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
COLATON RALEIGH is an attractive village with much white-washed cob and thatch and many trees. Place Court is an ancient farmhouse, probably the former manor house, with an oratory. The church (St. John the Baptist) was rebuilt, all except the 15th century sandstone tower, in 1875. It retains its Norman font.
