Huxham
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| Huxham | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Huxham, St Mary's church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX946978 |
| Location: | 50°46’15"N, 3°29’42"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Exeter |
| Postcode: | EX5 |
| Dialling code: | 01392 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Devon |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Central Devon |
Huxham is a hamlet in eastern Devon, half a mile east of the larger village of Stoke Canon and about three miles north of Exeter, within the Wonford Hundred.
The wider parish has an area of about 800 acres and is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by Rewe, Poltimore, Exeter and Stoke Canon.[1]
The hamlet gave its name to a family who possessed the manor from the reign of King Henry II to that of King Edward III. The manor was then held by the Bampfylde family of Poltimore.[2]
Church
The church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin[3]. It was built in the early 14th century and rebuilt in 1865-71.
The church has a Norman font[4] and the screen may be very early in date.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Huxham) |
References
- ↑ Map of Devon Parishes; Devon County Council
- ↑ Magna Britannia vol 6: Devonshire (on British History Online)
- ↑ St Mary the Virgin, Huxham | A Church Near You
- ↑ Hoskins, W.G.: 'Devon' (Phillimore, 2003) page 414; ISBN 978-1-86077-270-2
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8page 498