East Ogwell is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford Hundred. It falls within Moretonhampstead 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 256 in 1801 219 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 81 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

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 East Ogwell 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 109/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 109SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX838701. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX87SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.

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

EAST OGWELL has a 14th century cruciform church (St. Bartholomew). In the 15th century the N. transept was enlarged into a full aisle; the S. transept was left untouched. It contains the canopied Elizabethan altar-tomb of Richard Reynell, Sheriff of Devon (d. 1585), and of his wife Agnes. The chancel screen is of an early square-headed type, probably early 15th century A Jacobean screen spans the tower arch. Note also the fine octagonal 14th century font, and some ancient glass in the vestry window.