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Chulmleigh in Devon County England History and GeographyCHULMLEIGH, a market town and parish in the hundred of WITHERIDGE, county of DEVON, 21½ miles (N. W.) from Exeter, and 194 (W. by S.) from London, containing 1506 inhabitants. This place, anciently called Chimleighe, is not connected with many events of historical importance: in the reign of Henry III., John de Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire, obtained for it the grant of a weekly market. During the parliamentary war, a skirmish took place here between the royalists and parliamentarians, in 1645. The town, a considerable portion of which was destroyed by fire in 1803, is situated on an eminence rising gently from the eastern bank of the river Taw; the houses, with the exception of a few which are modern and well built, are low and covered with thatch; but there is an ample supply of water. Though formerly a place of considerable trade for wool-combing, it does not now possess any particular branch of manufacture. The market is on Friday: the fairs are on the third Friday in March, Wednesday in Easter week, and the last Wednesday in July. A portreeve, whose office is merely nominal, and other officers, are appointed annually at the court leet and baron of the lord of the manor. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstable, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £20. 18. 1½., and in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. George Hole: in the church are five prebends, endowed with glebe and a portion of the tithes of the parish, viz. Brookland, rated at £4. 8. 4.; Denes, at £4. 6. 8.; Higher Heyne, at £5. 13. 4.; Lower Heyne, at £5; and Penels, at £5; they are distinct from the rectory, but are now held with it, the advowson both to the rectory and the prebends having been in the family of the present rector since 1773, when they were purchased from the Duke of Beaufort, then lord of the manor. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, was damaged by lightning in 1797; it is an ancient and spacious structure in the decorated style of English architecture, with a square embattled tower; the interior is fine, and contains an ancient screen of oak richly carved. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. A small charity school was endowed by Mrs. Pyncombe with £10 per annum, for the instruction of twelve boys and twelve girls. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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