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Goodleigh (#16 on map) is a village, civil parish and former manor in the North Devon District of Devon, England. The village lies about 2-1/2 miles northeast of the centre of Barnstaple. It is generally a linear settlement.
The parish church of St Gregory, a grade II* listed building with surviving ancient parts, was largely rebuilt in 1881.
Goodleigh Manor
Goodleigh Manor was owned by Robert Newton Incledon (1761-1846), formerly of the manor of Yeotown, also in Goodleigh parish, who purchased the manor from the Rashleigh family.
Combe, Goodleigh (the Acland family)
The estate of Combe was, in the 17th century, a seat of a branch of the Acland family. Combe was the residence of a junior branch, who originated in the 12th century at the estate of Acland, 1/2 mile to the south in the parish of Landkey (#22). Two 17th century mural monuments survive in Goodleigh Church to members of the Acland family of Combe. The descent was as follows:
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- James I Acland of Combe, who married Margaret Markham of Barnstaple. James was the younger son of Anthony Acland (d.1568) of Hawkridge, Chittlehampton, the younger son of John V Acland of Acland, Landkey. The senior line of this family, of Flemish origin and first recorded at Acland in 1155, later became the Acland Baronets and from the 18th century were one of the wealthiest and most prominent land-owning families in Devon, seated at Killerton in Devon and at Holnicote Estate in Selworthy, Somerset.
- Thomas I Acland (d.1635), eldest son and heir, who married Katherine Palmer (d.1622, buried Goodleigh) of Barnstaple.
- James II Acland (1630-1655), grandson, who died without progeny. He was the son and heir of Thomas II Acland (1609-1633), (son and heir apparent of Thomas I Acland (d.1635) (whom he predeceased)) by his wife (whom he married at Braunton) Agnes Shepherd. The mural monuments of both father and son survive in Goodleigh church. Agnes married Rev. Josias Gole after the death of Thomas II Acland.
Yeotown, Goodleigh (Robert Newton Incledon)
[see also the Wikipedia article Yeotown, Goodleigh]
The estate was situated in the sequestered wooded valley of the small River Yeo, about 1 mile south-west of the village of Goodleigh. The mansion house, formerly owned by the Beavis family, was remodelled in about 1807 in the neo-gothic style by Robert Newton Incledon (1761-1846), husband of Elizabeth Beavis and eldest son of Benjamin Incledon (1730-1796) of Pilton House, Pilton, near Barnstaple, an antiquarian and genealogist and Recorder of the Borough of Barnstaple (1758–1796). It was demolished during his lifetime. Today only one of the large gatehouses survives, since converted into a farmhouse known as Ivy Lodge.
Research Tips
(revised Jul 2021)
- Ordnance Survey Map of Devonshire North and Devonshire South are large-scale maps covering the whole of Devon between them. They show the parish boundaries when Rural Districts were still in existence and before the mergers of parishes that took place in 1935 and 1974. When expanded the maps can show many of the small villages and hamlets inside the parishes. These maps are now downloadable for personal use but they can take up a lot of computer memory.
- GENUKI has a selection of maps showing the boundaries of parishes in the 19th century. The contribution from "Know Your Place" on Devon is a huge website yet to be discovered in detail by this contributor.
- Devon has three repositories for hands-on investigation of county records. Each has a website which holds their catalog of registers and other documents.
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- There is, however, a proviso regarding early records for Devon. Exeter was badly hit in a "blitz" during World War II and the City Library, which then held the county archives, was burnt out. About a million books and historic documents went up in smoke. While equivalent records--particularly wills--are quite easy to come by for other English counties, some records for Devon and surrounding counties do not exist.
- Devon Family History Society Mailing address: PO Box 9, Exeter, EX2 6YP, United Kingdom. The society has branches in various parts of the county. It is the largest Family History Society in the United Kingdom. The website has a handy guide to each of the parishes in the county and publishes the registers for each of the Devon dioceses on CDs.
- This is the home page to the GENUKI Devon website. It has been updated since 2015 and includes a lot of useful information on each parish.
- Devon has a Online Parish Clerk (OPC) Project which can be reached through GENUKI. Only about half of the parishes have a volunteer contributing local data. For more information, consult the website, especially the list at the bottom of the homepage.
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- Magna Britannia, Volume 6 by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons. A general and parochial history of the county. Originally published by T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1822, and placed online by British History Online. This is a volume of more than 500 pages of the history of Devon, parish by parish. It is 100 years older than the Victoria County Histories available for some other counties, but equally thorough in its coverage. Contains information that may have been swept under the carpet in more modern works.
- There is a cornucopia of county resources at Devon Heritage. Topics are: Architecture, Census, Devon County, the Devonshire Regiment, Directory Listings, Education, Genealogy, History, Industry, Parish Records, People, Places, Transportation, War Memorials. There are fascinating resources you would never guess that existed from those topic titles. (NOTE: There may be problems reaching this site. One popular browser provider has put a block on it. This may be temporary, or it may be its similarity in name to the Devon Heritage Centre at Exeter.)
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