Buckerell, a parish in Devonshire, on Icknield Street, the river Otter, and the L. & S.W.R., 2½ miles from Sidmouth Junction. It has a post office under Honiton, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1340; population of the civil parish, 243; of the ecclesiastical, 274. Buckerell Lodge and Hembury Fort are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diftcese of Exeter; net value, £161 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The church is cruciform, and has a richly carved oak screen.
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
|Ecclesiastical parish||Buckerell St. Mary|
|Poor Law union||Honiton|
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Buckerell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848 (Buckerell, or Bokerell (St. Mary))
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Newspapers and Periodicals
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The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1564, with additions from the earlier visitation of 1531, is online.
The Visitations of the County of Devon, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by Lieutant-Colonel J.L. Vivian, published for the author by Henry S. Eland, Exeter 1895 is online.