Cotleigh
From Wikishire
| Cotleigh | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 St. Michael's church, Cotleigh | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST206022 |
| Location: | 50°48’50"N, 3°7’40"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Devon |
Cotleigh is a village near Honiton in eastern Devon. A cluster of houses high on the Blackdown Hills, it is an uncentred village, with a cluster of ghouses bythe church and another on the lane. Immediately to the north is a village barely larger, Holmsleigh Green.
The parish church is St Petrock's. It is mostly 15th century and described rather cruelly as "pleasant but of no great interest".[1]
Tristram Risdon, Devon's late Georgian chronicler wrote of the village simply: 'Cotleigh comes next, the lands of Richard de Rupe, alias Roch: from whose posterity it came'.[2]
