Payhembury
Payhembury is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Hayridge Hundred. It falls within Ottery 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 416 in 1801 415 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 69 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Ottery St Mary 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 Payhembury 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 58/13 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 58SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is ST052028. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet ST00SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 030, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 326 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
PAYHEMBURY church (St. Mary) is chiefly 15th century, with all the usual features: a Beer stone arcade with well-carved capitals bearing shields of arms (including the arms of Courtenay), a good rood-screen (c. 1450), some ancient carved bench-ends, and Queen Anne altar-rails and pulpit with sounding-board. There is some medieval glass in the N. aisle, and a splendid panelled and coloured roof with bosses.
Higher and Lower Cheriton represent the Domesday manor of Cherleton, and Tale the manor of Tala. Uggaton, a large farmhouse of late 17th century date, is mentioned as early as 1196. Leyhill Farm was rebuilt in 1657 and much altered in Queen Anne's time.
