Landcross
Landcross is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Shebbear Hundred. It falls within Hartland 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 50 in 1801 58 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 12 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Bideford 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 Landcross 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 19/11 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 19SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS463238. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS42SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 126, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 292 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
LANDCROSS is the smallest parish in Devon, almost wholly contained within a beautiful sweep of the Torridge. The small church (Holy Trinity) was rebuilt in 1435,(Reg, Lacy, ii, 634.) and contains a Norman font from the older fabric, and a fine set of carved bench-ends (early 16th century). General Monk was baptized here II December 1608.
