East Putford
East Putford is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Shebbear Hundred. It falls within Holsworthy 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 139 in 1801 125 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 36 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Holsworthy 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 East Putford 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 28/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 28SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS368164. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS31NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 126, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 190. Geological sheet 307 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
PUTFORD, EAST is a pleasant little place among trees, with good quiet views and some picturesque stone-built farmhouses, probably of Elizabethan date. The church (dedication unknown) was almost wholly rebuilt in 1882. It contains an elegant 12th century font, some late medieval tiles in the south porch, and a pulpit made out of a medieval rood-screen.
Among the farms of the parish, Mambury and Winslade are interesting. Mambury, approached by a long avenue of beeches, was a freehold estate from its beginning in the 12th or 13th century.
Winslade lies in remote country, below the topmost point of Melbury Hill (709 ft.). It gave its name to the Wynslade (sometimes Wydeslade) family, who were long seated here. John Wynslade and his son William took a prominent part in the Western Rebellion of 1549; the former was executed for his share in the rising and all his estates were forfeited to Edward VI. The present farmhouse contains a good deal of the early 16th century mansion.
