Awliscombe is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Hemyock Hundred. It falls within Honiton Vol 1 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 426 in 1801 464 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £07/15/04. In 1641/2 142 adult males signed the Protestation returns. A market is recorded from 14 cent..

A parish history file is held in Honiton 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 Awliscombe 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 58/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 58SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is ST135016. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet ST10SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 030, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 326 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Awliscombe as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. 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:

AWLISCOMBE contains little of interest except the church (St. Michael), which is a typical 15th century church in the East Devon manner. It has a good N. arcade of Beer stone, and a remarkable rood-screen, also of Beer stone, retaining much of its ancient detail. Thomas Chard, probably the titular bishop of Solubria and not the last abbot of Ford of the same name, was born at Tracey in this parish (now a late Georgian house) about 1470. He was responsible for much excellent work in his parish church, notably the groined s. porch, and the chantry chapel in the S. transept with its beautiful early 16th century window. He was prior of Montacute until 1532, and then prior of Carswell, a cell of Montacute (see BROADHEMBURY), and died in 1541. The church was mostly rebuilt in 1846, and was again restored by Medley Fulford in 1887.