Doddiscombesleigh
Doddiscombesleigh is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Exminster Hundred. It falls within Kenn 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 317 in 1801 210 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 102 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Chudleigh 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 Doddiscombesleigh 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 91/7 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 91NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX855866. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX88NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 325 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
DODDISCOMBSLEIGH lies in a combe under the western slopes of Haldon. The Town Barton, formerly the manor house, is probably a 16th century house, added to in 1604. The church (St. Michael) is almost entirely a 15th century structure, with some slight traces of earlier work. The pulpit is 17th century, and there are some carved bench-ends, but the glory of the church is the medieval glass in the N. aisle, which is undoubtedly the best in the county. The five large 15th century windows of the aisle preserve their original glass almost intact. Apart from four windows in Exeter Cathedral these are the only complete windows of medieval glass left in Devon. The E. window, showing the Seven Sacraments, is of exceptional interest. (Details of the glass will be found in Cresswell, Notes on the churches of the Deanery of Kenn, 72-3.)
This part of the Teign valley, besides being very beautiful, is notable for the treasures of its churches, those of Ashton, Dunchideock, and Bridford being outstanding.
