Ideford
Ideford is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Teignbridge Hundred. It falls within Moretonhampstead 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 339 in 1801 254 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 65 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Newton Abbot 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 Ideford 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 102/13 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 102SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX892773. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX87NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
IDEFORD lies in a beautiful hollow in the Haldon Hills. The church (St. Mary) is plain 15th century and was excessively restored in 1852 and again in 1887-91. A Norman tympanum, dis- covered when the chancel was rebuilt in 1890, is built into the S. wall of the chancel (outside).
