Stoodleigh
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Stoodleigh is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon District, England, located 6 miles north of Tiverton and five miles south of Bampton. It is situated 800ft above the Exe Valley, close to the Devon/Somerset border. The centre of the village is a conservation area.[1]
In the past it formed part of Witheridge Hundred and it is within the Tiverton Deanery of the Church of England.[2]
[edit] Castle Close
Castle Close is a circular earthwork, close to Stoodleigh, that is most likely to be an Iron Age Hill fort or enclosure.[3]
[edit] Church of St Margaret's
The Church of St Margaret's was constructed in the 15th century and was extensively restored in 1782.[4] It contains a Norman font which is likely to have come from an earlier church in the parish where the first recorded incumbent was installed in 1264.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "About Stoodleigh", Stoodleigh.org
- ^ "Stoodleigh community page", Devon County Council
- ^ R.R.Sellman; Aspects of Devon History, Devon Books 1985 - ISBN 0861147561 - Chapter 2; The Iron Age in Devon. Map Page 11 of Iron Age hill forts in Devon includes Castle Close.
- ^ "Stoodleigh St. Margaret's", Rootsweb.com
