England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Sheldon lies in eastern Devon about 7 miles east of the market town of Cullompton. Sheldon is a small straggle of a hilltop village lying in lanes within an area totally devoid of numbered significant roads, the closest such road being the A373 road connecting Cullompton to Honiton and which lies some 4 miles south of Sheldon. The economy of the parish was almost entirely devoted to farming, pastoral in the main. Sheldon sits on a hilltop overlooking the vale of a tributary of the Culm, this drains the parish northwestwards then turns back as the Culm to the southwest, the Culm meets the Exee to the north of Exeter before reaching the English Channel through the latter's estuary. Sheldon is sited on a rising site, the lower parts at around 200 metres rising to near the church some 40 metres higher. The hilltop rises more gradually to summit at 283 metres. Sheldon parish is one of the smaller in this area, it covered just under 1,600 acres and wood have supported a population of just under 200 parishioners. In Domesday times Sheldon was held by one Ralph de Pomeroy and was a fairly small place of 7 ploughs but, even then, almost a quarter of the acreage was set to pasture. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 16th February 1755 - 26th March 1813 | Devon Record Office - Reference 2722A/PR/1/2 | Plain unruled book a continuation of the extant composite register | Grade 2 register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 4th November 1813 - 21st April 1836 | Devon Record Office - Reference 2722A/PR/1/6 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Uffculme
St Mary
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Uffculme St
Mary
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Dunkeswell
St Nicholas
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Kentisbeare
St Mary
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Dunkeswell
St Nicholas
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Dunkeswell
St Nicholas
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