Crockernwell is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford Hundred. It falls within Kenn (see index) 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. West Devon Listed Buildings List see:- sx720.9/DEV/049.

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 Crockernwell 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 78/11 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 78SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX753924. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX79SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 324 also covers the area.

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

Crockernwell [in the parish of CHERITON BISHOP]is a hamlet on the Exeter-Okehampton road which has been the main route from Exeter into Cornwall from time immemorial. Parts of the road are undoubtedly on the line of a prehistoric ridgeway. A small settlement grew up at Crockernwell as early as Saxon times; and in 1390 Bishop Brantyngham licensed a chapel here