Kingskerswell
Kingskerswell is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Haytor Hundred. It falls within Ipplepen 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 lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £08/10/00. In 1641/2 124 adult males signed the Protestation returns. A market is recorded from 14 cent..
A parish history file is held in Kingskerswell 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 Kingskerswell 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 115/8 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 115NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX881677. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX86NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
A fair is known from: 14 cent.. [It is intended to include the local section from The glove is up! Devon's historic fairs, by Tricia Gerrish, by kind permission of the author].
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
KINGSKERSWELL is a large village, by reason of its nearness to Newton Abbot and Torquay. The church (St. Mary) is one of the common type in this part of Devon: an early 14th century building (with a W. tower of that date), which was enlarged during the 15th century by the conversion of the transepts into full aisles. In the N. aisle are three mutilated recumbent effigies of the Dinhams who held the manor in the 14th and 15th centuries. They probably represent Sir John Dinham (d. 428) and his two wives (c. 1394, c.1410).
Near the church are the small remains of the fortified manor house of the Dinharns, described incorrectly on the map as a Castle.
