Sticklepath
Sticklepath is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Black Torrington Hundred. It falls within Okehampton 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. Village in the parish of Sampford Courtenay.
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 Sticklepath 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 77/6 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 77NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX642941. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX69SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 324 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
Sticklepath is a small village on the main Exeter to Okehampton road. The good old blacksmith's forge here gets its power from a waterwheel behind.
