Hennock
Hennock is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Teignbridge Hundred. It falls within Mortonhampstead 1 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 537 in 1801 746 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 150 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
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 here is of the Hennock 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 101/6 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 101NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX831808. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX88SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Hennock as included in the Library's illustrations catalogue. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
HENNOCK is a wildish, hilly parish between the Teign and Bovey valleys, the village standing some 600 ft. above sea-level. The parish church (St. Mary) is a typical fully-aisled building of 15th century date, with granite arcades. The plain, unbuttressed tower may be older. The font, with rude carvings, is probably early 13th century in date. Some medieval glass remains, but much is said to have been carted away at the "restoration" of 1873-5, when the church was filled with bad Victorian woodwork. The rood-screen, of the ordinary 15th century type, was spared. It extends across nave and aisles, and retains some of its ancient paintings. Vaultings and cornices have disappeared, but the enriched canopy of honour to the rood remains in the nave roof.
Warmhill, now a good early 17th century farmhouse, was a Domesday with no manor. Chudleigh Knighton, at the S. end of the parish, was a separate Domesday Manor . Longlands, in the village, is an interesting old house, probably of late 15th century origin, altered in the early 17th century. It seems to be a medieval hall-house, modernised just after 1600.
