Other Websites Relating to South Tawton

Please let us know of any website with appropriate content
and which is not in the list below - thank you.

South Tawton Itself

The Church House website
http://www.thechurchhouse.org.uk

The above site has its own list of related content
http://www.thechurchhouse.org.uk/contact-and-links.htm

The medieval roof-bosses in St. Andrew's church, photos and history, interpretations
http://stalkingdeadpeople.blogspot.fr/2013/10/the-roof-bosses-of-south-tawton.html

Photos:
http://www.mallettfamilyhistory.org/tng/showalbum.php?albumID=49

Online Parish Registers
https://stage.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/South_Tawton_with_South_Zeal,_Devon

"The Book of South Tawton & South Zeal, with Sticklepath, (1000 years beneath the beacon)"
by Alison Baker, David Hoare & Jean Shields
http://www.halsgrove.com/proddetail.php?prod=9781841140568&cat=8


Elsewhere

Spreyton Farm Histories & South Tawton Families
http://www.spreyton.org.uk/history_farms.htm

The Project Gutenberg e-book: "Dartmoor" by Arthur L. Salmon, illustrated by Ernest W. Haslehust [1913?]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45885/45885-h/45885-h.htm#stream


Devon in General

1531, 1564, 1620: The Herald's Visitations of Devon (online)
http://ukga.org/england/Devon/visitations/visprepref.html

1564: Visitation of the County of Devon (online)
http://ukga.org/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?action=ViewRec&DB=13&bookID=136&page=i&submit=Submit

17thC: the full text of Sir Tristram Risdon’s
"The Chorographical Description, or Survey, of the County of Devon" pub. 1811
Risdon’s "Survey" was written over the period 1610 to the 1630s. For information on South Zeal and South Tawton, go to page 289. There is a full place-name index at the end, with links.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w_0GAAAAQAAJ

1785: "A Review of Part of Risdon's Survey of Devon;
Containing the General Description of that County, with corrections, annotations, additions"
by the late William Chapple of Exeter, (& Tristram Risdon)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TXxbAAAAQAAJ

The full text of an 1822 survey of Devon, including parish-by-parish descriptions, information
For South Tawton, use the link to "Parishes: Tallaton to Templeton".
The British History website has an excellent search function of great use to family historians.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol6

On Genuki pages, links to a multiplicity of documents for those researching Devon
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/History.html

Devon DNA Project
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Devon/default.aspx?section=ysnp


Since there was movement between the Tawtons:
Some pages about North Tawton

It is hoped to create a website relating to Bishop's Tawton, to complete the 'trinity'. (Caroline, February, 2015)

N.B. where Google Books are concerned, if the title has particular interest for you, may I suggest that you download the book whenever possible, since Google seems somewhat erratic in its choice of title to allow in full view, or not!


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