Cotleigh

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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]

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References

  1. Ewart L. Page Some Notes on Cotleigh and Cotleigh Church 1994
  2. Risdon, Tristram: 'A chorographical description or survey of the county of Devon' (1811), page 37