Bittadon is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Braunton Hundred. It falls within Barnstaple 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 24 in 1801 54 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.

A parish history file is held in Ilfracombe 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 Bittadon 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 5/14 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 5SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS545415. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS54SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 139, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 293 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

BITTADON lies in an unspoilt valley. On the hills to the E. is a group of eight large barrows, probably of Bronze Age date, and a few others to the N. again. The church (St. Peter) consists of nave, chancel, and dumpy W. tower with pyramidal cap. It was hideously rebuilt and ruined in 1883-7. The only objects of interest are a plain 13th century font, and mural monuments toEdward Poyntz (1691) and Arthur Acland (1675).