Sampford Peverell
Sampford Peverell is located within Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Halberton Hundred. It falls within Cullompton 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 763 in 1801 612 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £05/00/04. In 1641/2 210 adult males signed the Protestation returns. It is recorded as a borough from 1300. A market is recorded from 14 cent..
A parish history file is held in Tiverton 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 Sampford Peverell 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 35/14,46/2 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 35SW,46NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is ST030144. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet ST01SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 128, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 181. Geological sheet 310 also covers the area.
A fair is known from: 14c.-1935. [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:
SAMPFORD PEVERELL was formerly regarded as a "borough" on the strength of its two-day fair and weekly market. The church (St. John the Baptist) is mainly 15th century but was badly over-restored in 1863-4. The font is late 12th century; there are considerable traces of 13th century work in the nave and chancel.
