Georgeham is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Braunton 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 627 in 1801 698 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 217 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Braunton 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 Georgeham 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 8/2,3,6 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 8NW,NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS464398. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS43NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 139, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 292 also covers the area.

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

GEORGEHAM was simply Ham in Domesday Book; the church is dedicated to St. George. Other Domesday manors in the parish were Croyde, North Buckland, Hole and Pickwell. The coastal scenery of the parish is attractive, especially at Croyde Bay, and at the fine headland of Baggy Point which now belongs to the National Trust. The parish church was rebuilt, except the tower, in 1876-7. It contains a number of interesting effigies and monuments. The effigy of a medieval knight is supposed to be that of Mauger St. Aubyn (d. 1294), who held the manor of Pickwell. In the Pickwell chapel also are some Harris monuments, and a good early 18th century screen. In the old village of Croyde are a number of attractive cottages but the coastal end has been "developed."