Tedburn St Mary
Tedburn St Mary is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford Hundred. It falls within Kenn 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 527 in 1801 475 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 144 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Teignmouth 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 Tedburn St Mary 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 79/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 79NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX815941. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX89SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 114, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 325 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
TEDBURN ST. MARY lies in beautiful, billowy country, full of colour at any time of the year. The church (St. Mary) is mainly a 15th century building, with considerable traces of earlier work, as in the S. transept. The whole church was greatly altered inside in the 17th century and again in the Victorian restoration. Great Hackworthy, now a farmhouse, was a Domesday manor; so, too, were Melhuish Barton and Upcott.
