Cadeleigh is located within Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Hayridge Hundred. It falls within Tiverton 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 226 in 1801 228 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 102 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Tiverton 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 Cadeleigh 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 56/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 56NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS914079. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS90NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 114, 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:

CADELEIGH like Cadbury, lies in hilly and most beautiful country. The church (St. Bartholomew) stands on a high ridge, commanding fine views. It is mostly a pleasant 15th century rebuilding of an older church (probably first founded in the 12th century, in the time of Bishop Bartholomew of Exeter, 1161-84). The Leach monument in the N. aisle is magnificent. Made of Beer stone, with pillars and enrichments of Devonshire marble, it was erected by Sir Simon Leach (1567-1637) in memory of Katherine Turberville, his second wife. It shows Sir Simon and Lady Katherine as full-length recumbent effigies beneath a h;gh canopy, together with the kneeling figures of their nine children. The monument commemorates other members of the family also.