Oakford, Devon
Oakford is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England. It is located south west of Bampton and north north west of Tiverton. Oakford is near the river Exe. In 1870, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Oakford thus: Population It had a population of 358 according to the 2011 census with 185 being Males and 173 being Female. The 1831 census provides information, down to parish-level, on the occupations of males aged over 20 using nine categories. Here we reorganise this information to provide a crude measure of social status, based more on contemporary ideas than on modern definitions of social class: "middling sorts" combines small farmers not employing labourers with both masters and skilled workers in urban manufacturing and handicrafts. According to the 2011 census, 32% of those who are economically active in Oakford are self-employed; this is nearly twice the district statistics and over 3 times high ...
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Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is a coastal county with cliffs and sandy beaches. Home to the largest open space in southern England, Dartmoor (), the county is predominately rural and has a relatively low population density for an English county. The county is bordered by Somerset to the north east, Dorset to the east, and Cornwall to the west. The county is split into the non-metropolitan districts of East Devon, Mid Devon, North Devon, South Hams, Teignbridge, Torridge, West Devon, Exeter, and the unitary authority areas of Plymouth, and Torbay. Combined as a ceremonial county, Devon's area is and its population is about 1.2 million. Devon derives its name from Dumnonia (the shift from ''m'' to ''v'' is a typical Celtic consonant shift). During the Briti ...
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Oakford Social Stats, Based On 1831 Occupational Statistics
Oakford is the name of several locations: ;Australia * Oakford, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth ;United Kingdom * Oakford, Ceredigion, a village in Wales * Oakford, Devon, a village in England ;United States * Oakford, Illinois * Oakford, Indiana * Oakford, Pennsylvania * Oakford Park (Tampa), Florida, a neighborhood * Oakford Park, a former amusement park in Jeannette, Pennsylvania * Oakford Precinct, Menard County, Illinois Oakford No. 9 Precinct is located in Menard County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Lo ...

Oakford Illustration
Oakford is the name of several locations: ;Australia * Oakford, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth ;United Kingdom * Oakford, Ceredigion, a village in Wales * Oakford, Devon, a village in England ;United States * Oakford, Illinois * Oakford, Indiana * Oakford, Pennsylvania * Oakford Park (Tampa), Florida, a neighborhood * Oakford Park, a former amusement park in Jeannette, Pennsylvania * Oakford Precinct, Menard County, Illinois Oakford No. 9 Precinct is located in Menard County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Lo ...

William George Hoskins
William George Hoskins (22 May 1908 – 11 January 1992) was an English local historian who founded the first university department of English Local History. His great contribution to the study of history was in the field of landscape history. Hoskins demonstrated the profound impact of human activity on the evolution of the English landscape in a pioneering book: ''The Making of the English Landscape''. His work has had lasting influence in the fields of local and landscape history and historical and environmental conservation. Life William George Hoskins was born at 26–28 St David's Hill, Exeter, Devon on 22 May 1908: his father, like his grandfather, was a baker. He won a scholarship to Hele's School in 1918, and attended the University College of South West England where he gained BSc and MSc degrees in economics by the age of 21. Both his MSc in 1929 and his PhD in 1938 were on the history of Devon. The remainder of his life was devoted to university teaching and the ...
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Barton (demesne)
A demesne ( ) or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support. This distinguished it from land sub-enfeoffed by him to others as sub-tenants. The concept originated in the Kingdom of France and found its way to foreign lands influenced by it or its fiefdoms. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, royal demesne is the land held by the Crown, and ancient demesne is the legal term for the land held by the king at the time of the Domesday Book. Etymology The word derives from Old French , ultimately from Latin , "lord, master of a household" – ''demesne'' is a variant of ''domaine''. The word ''barton'', which is historically synonymous to ''demesne'' and is an element found in many place-names, can refer to a demesne farm: it derives from Old English ''bere'' (barley) and ''ton'' (enclosure). Development The system of manorial land tenure, broadly termed feudalism, was conceived in France ...
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Spurway, Oakford
Spurway is a historic manor in the parish of Oakford in Devon. It was the seat of the de Spurway (later Spurway) family from before 1244 until the mid-20th century. The derelict buildings of Spurway Barton are in a remote location above a wooded combe. History Spurway was for several centuries two separate manors, East Spurway and West Spurway. East Spurway is listed as ''SPREWE'' in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of the 99 Devonshire holdings of Geoffrey de Montbray, Bishop of Coutances,Thorn, Part 2, 3:74 who was one of the tenants-in-chief in Devon of King William the Conqueror. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066 it was held by an Anglo-Saxon named Algar. In the Book of Fees of 1302 it is recorded as a possession of the feudal barony of Barnstaple. In the record of Feudal Aids between 1284-1431''Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids with other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Records Office AD 1284-1431'', HMSO, 1899-1920, 6 Vols. it is listed a ...
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Devon Heritage Centre
There are three county record office, local archives covering the Historic counties of England, historic county of Devon, England. The Devon Heritage Centre in Exeter is the main archive. It has a branch office, the North Devon Record Office in Barnstaple (established in 1988), which is the repository for records broadly relating to North Devon. Since 2014 the joint service has been run by the South West Heritage Trust under the name of the Devon Archives and Local Studies Service. In addition, there is The Box, Plymouth, The Box in Plymouth, a new museum, art gallery and archive for the South West which opened in September 2020. Alongside local archives from the former Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, The Box holds materials from the former South West Film & Television Archive, South West Image Bank and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. Devon Heritage Centre The Devon Heritage Centre (DHC) is the successor to the Devon Record Office (DRO) that was established by Devon ...
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Oakford Population Graph 1881-2011
Oakford is the name of several locations: ;Australia * Oakford, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth ;United Kingdom * Oakford, Ceredigion, a village in Wales * Oakford, Devon, a village in England ;United States * Oakford, Illinois * Oakford, Indiana * Oakford, Pennsylvania * Oakford Park (Tampa), Florida, a neighborhood * Oakford Park, a former amusement park in Jeannette, Pennsylvania * Oakford Precinct, Menard County, Illinois Oakford No. 9 Precinct is located in Menard County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Lo ...

Mid Devon
Mid Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in Tiverton. The district was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Tiverton and Crediton urban district together with Tiverton Rural District, and Crediton Rural District. It was originally called Tiverton District, but was renamed in 1978 by resolution of the district council. Geography Mid Devon shares borders with several other Devon districts as well as the county of Somerset. Neighbouring districts include Exeter, East Devon, North Devon, Teignbridge, West Devon and Torridge. The area of Mid Devon, according to the Office for National Statistics Census table KS101EW is 91293.48 hectares, or 912.9348 sq kilometers, or 352.5 square miles. Rivers The Exe, the Culm, the Yeo, the Dalch, the Little Dart, the Taw, the Dart, the Brockley, the Creedy and the Spratford Stream flow through the district. Raddon Top Raddon Top (772  ...
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Imperial Gazetteer Of England And Wales
The ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' is a substantial topographical dictionary first published between 1870 and 1872, edited by the Reverend John Marius Wilson. It contains a detailed description of England and Wales. Its six volumes have a brief article on each county, city, borough, civil parish, and diocese, describing their political and physical features and naming the principal people of each place. The publishers were A. Fullarton and Co., of London & Edinburgh. The work is a companion to Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland'', published in parts between 1854 and 1857. The text of the Imperial Gazetteer is available online in two forms, as images you pay for on the Ancestry web site,Gazetteers
at ukgenealogy.co.uk (accessed 4 November 2007) and as freely accessible searchable text on ''

John Marius Wilson
John Marius Wilson (c. 1805–1885) was a British writer and an editor, most notable for his gazetteers. The ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (published 1870–72), was a substantial topographical dictionary in six volumes. It was a companion to his ''Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland'', published 1854–57. He was born in Lochmaben Lochmaben ( Gaelic: ''Loch Mhabain'') is a small town and civil parish in Scotland, and site of a castle. It lies west of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway. By the 12th century the Bruce family had become the local landowners and, in the 14th ..., Dumfriesshire in about 1805, and was ordained as a Congregationalist minister, working for a time in County Galway in Ireland. From the late 1840s onwards he devoted himself to writing and editing, living in Edinburgh, where he died in 1885, aged 80.
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