Warkleigh is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of West Budleigh Hundred. It falls within South Molton 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 291 in 1801 220 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 71 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in South Molton 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 Warkleigh 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 21/14 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 21SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS642228. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS62SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 127, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 309 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Warkleigh as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.

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

SATTERLEIGH AND WARKLEIGH originally two small parishes in the hills between Taw and Mole, are now united for all purposes. Satterleigh church (St. Peter) is small, simple, and charming. It is essentially a 15th century building, with a wooden bell-cote. The Exeter episcopal registers show that it was being rebuilt in 1435. It is probable that the chancel was once completely shut off from the nave as at Molland and Parracombe. The division between the two is formed by a partition on which are painted the Lord's Prayer and the Creed, and the rood-screen must have filled the space to the bottom of this partition. The altar is surrounded on three sides by railings. On the N. and S. sides are seats for the communicants, with pegs above for their hats.

Warkleigh church (St. John) is a 15th and early 16th century building but over restored and dull. In the chancel is the Warkleigh Tabernacle, a receptacle for the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, made of oak and originally richly coloured (15th century).