Milton Damerel
Milton Damerel is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Black Torrington Hundred. It falls within Holsworthy 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 469 in 1801 442 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 97 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Holsworthy 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 Milton Damerel 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 39/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 39SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS384106. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS31SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 126, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 190. Geological sheet 307 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
MILTON DAMAREL church (Holy Trinity) is an early 14th century building, carefully restored in 1904. The windows retain their Decorated tracery, a rarity for Devon. A N. aisle of five bays was added early in the 16th century. A royal coat-of-arms in plaster, dated 1664, perhaps marks the completion of much 17th century restoration. There are medieval tiles in the nave, and a rustic pulpit c. 1700.
