Roborough is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Fremington Hundred. It falls within Torrington 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 461 in 1801 312 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 96 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Torrington 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 Roborough 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 30/11,15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 30SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS577171. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS51NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 127, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 309 also covers the area.

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

ROBOROUGH church (St. Peter) was of 15th century date, but the restoration in 1868 left a heavy mark. Coombe Barton is an early 16th century farmhouse, with some contemporary doorways and windows. Owlacombe, Villavin, and Barlington were Domesday manors.