Lympstone
Lympstone is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of East Budleigh Hundred. It falls within Aylesbeare 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 883 in 1801 1012 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £03/19/08. It is recorded as a borough from 1288.
A parish history file is held in Exmouth 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 Lympstone 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 93/9 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 93SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX992842. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX98SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 030, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Lympstone as included in the Library's illustrations collection. 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:
LYMPSTONE opens out between low sandstone cliffs on to the Exe estuary. The views from the shore across the river to the woods of Mamhead and Powderham and the Haldon skyline, are strikingly beautiful. The village is still unspoilt and has great character. It is full of pleasant cottages and villas of the period 1800-40, when it was thronged with summer visitors, who enjoyed the scenery and the rich smells of the estuary mud-flats.
The church (St. Mary) is a Perpendicular building, rebuilt in 1864 except for the tower, and enlarged in 1928.
