Iddesleigh is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Shebbear Hundred. It falls within Torrington 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 441 in 1801 335 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 92 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Okehampton 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 Iddesleigh 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 52/3 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 52NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS570082. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS50NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 309 also covers the area.

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

IDDESLEIGH is an excellent example of a cob and thatch village, most attractive to explore. The church (St. James) stands well, commanding splendid views of Dartmoor, including Cawsand Beacon, Yes Tor, and High Willhays. It is entirely 15th century, with excellent wagon-roofs to nave and N. aisle. In the N. chancel aisle is a noble recumbent effigy of a knight, c. 1250, probably a 13th century squire of Iddesleigh and believed to be a Sully,