Fremington is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Fremington Hundred. It falls within Barnstaple 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 875 in 1801 1194 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £09/13/06. In 1641/2 292 adult males signed the Protestation returns. It had parliamentary representation from 1332?.

A parish history file is held in Bideford 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 Fremington 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 13/5 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 13NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS512325. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS53SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 139, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 293 also covers the area.

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

FREMINGTON has been spoilt by almost uninterrupted ribbon-building along the Barnstaple to Instow road, but a few old houses remain near the church. The latter (St. Peter) was "thoroughly restored" by Scott in 1866-7 and is uninteresting. Fremington was formerly a small port on the Taw, and also had a small pottery for which the local clay was peculiarly suitable. Hollocombe, beside the Taw, was a Domesday manor.