Chudleigh Knighton is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Teignbridge Hundred. It falls within Moretonhampstead 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.

A parish history file is held in Newton Abbot 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 Chudleigh Knighton 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 101/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 101SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX846774. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX87NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.

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

Chudleigh Knighton, at the S. end of Hennock parish, was a separate Domesday Manor .

[It] was formed into a separate ecclesiastical district, February 27, 1880, from the parishes of Hennock, Bovey Tracey and Kingsteignton. (Kelly's directory of Devonshire, 1935)