Willand
Willand 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 255 in 1801 418 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 91 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Cullompton 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 Willand 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 46/10,11 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 46SW,46SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is ST035104. 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 192. Geological sheet 310 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
WILLAND is a messy, built-over landscape, too near to Tiverton Junction. The church (St. Mary) is entirely 15th century. The interior was thoroughly Victorianised in 1863, but the beautiful rood-screen was spared.
