Sydenham Damerel
Sydenham Damerel is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Lifton Hundred. It falls within Tavistock 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 199 in 1801 312 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 64 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Tavistock 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 here is of the Sydenham 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 105/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 105NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX409759. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX47NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 108, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 201. Geological sheet 337 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Sydenham Damerel 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:
SYDENHAM DAMAREL lies in attractive country, sloping down to the Tamar, well wooded with oak and beech. The church (St. Mary) is beautifully situated, and has a fine W. tower of granite. It is entirely a 15th century building, and retains its original wagon roofs and some medieval glass in the N. aisle. There is a good incised slate monument to John Richards (1634).
