Cotleigh

Cotleigh

St. Michael's church, Cotleigh
Cotleigh
Cotleigh shown within Devon
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Cotleigh is a village and civil parish near Honiton in Devon, England. Final resting place of John Green (author) [1][2][3] It is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Upottery, Stockland, Offwell and Monkton.[4] In the 19th century the rector of Cotleigh Devon was also rector of Barwick, Somerset.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Cotleigh "COTLEIGH is a small cluster of houses on a high ridge of the Blackdown Hills. The church (St. Petrock) is mostly 15th century, pleasant but of no great interest,"
  2. ↑ Ewart L. Page Some Notes on Cotleigh and Cotleigh Church 1994
  3. ↑ Tristram Risdon A chorographical description or survey of the county of Devon. 1811 Page 37 "(34) Cotleigh comes next, the lands of Richard de Rupe, alias Roch : from whose posterity it came 1c,"
  4. ↑ "Map of Devon Parishes" (PDF). Devon County Council. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  5. ↑ pace The British critic, quarterly theological review, 1827 Volume 1 - Page 539 "DECEASED The Rev. W Mitchell, rector of Cotleigh and Barwick, Devon." [sic]


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