Stockland is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Axminster Hundred. It falls within Honiton Vol 2 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 988 in 1801 772 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.

A parish history file is held in Axminster 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 Stockland 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 59/7 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 59NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is ST245046. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet ST20SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 029, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 193. Geological sheet 326 also covers the area.

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

STOCKLAND is a pleasant village with some interesting houses. Near the church is a farmhouse dated 1602. The parish has many scattered farmsteads, joined by narrow winding lanes, and is a good example of land cleared piecemeal and directly from the forest. The church (St. Michael) is a 14th century building, altered and enlarged in the 15th.

On the hill SW. of the village is Stockland Great Camp, 667 ft. above sea level, of which only the N. half remains. It was a hill fort of great strength, probably of late Iron Age date, and may have been constructed by the Dumnonii on their frontier against the Durotriges (of Dorset). The single valIum is still over 40 ft. high in places.