Description

Colebrooke Parish: Volume I reconstructs the history of a Devon parish through its farms, bartons, mills, inns, roads, church, school, families and changing landscape. Drawing together tithe records, census returns, directories, estate papers, historic maps, photographs, family evidence and surviving buildings, it follows Colebrooke and its surrounding settlements from the historic field system into the modern era.

Particular attention is given to the identity of individual places and holdings, preserving distinctions that can easily be lost where historic names resemble one another. Detailed coverage includes Colebrooke, Coleford, Copplestone, Penstone and many of the parish’s farms, estates and smaller historic properties.

With extensive maps, photographs, census material and a complete tithe-holding atlas, this volume is both a readable local history and a detailed reference work for readers interested in Devon, genealogy, rural communities and the changing countryside.