Cadeleigh is a small village in the county of
Devon
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in
England
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. It sits in the hills above the valley of the
River Exe
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and is about 15 km (9 miles) north of
Exeter
Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol.
In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
and 6 km (4 miles) southwest of
Tiverton.
The village has a church that is dedicated to
St. Bartholomew
Bartholomew (Aramaic: ; grc, Βαρθολομαῖος, translit=Bartholomaîos; la, Bartholomaeus; arm, Բարթողիմէոս; cop, ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ; he, בר-תולמי, translit=bar-Tôlmay; ar, بَرثُولَماو ...
and dates from the early part of the 15th century, although this is probably a rebuilding of a much older 12th-century church. It contains the monument of Sir
Simon Leach
Sir Simon Leach (1567–1638) of the parish of All Hallows, Goldsmith Street, Exeter and of Cadeleigh, Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1624. His surviving monument in St Bartholomew's Church, Cadeleigh is the largest of its type in any Devon ...
(1567-1638),
Sheriff of Devon
The High Sheriff of Devon is the Queen's representative for the County of Devon, a territory known as his/her bailiwick. Selected from three nominated people, they hold the office for one year. They have judicial, ceremonial and administrative f ...
in 1624, the largest of its type in any Devon parish church.
Pevsner, Nikolaus
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
& Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.241
There is a single public house in Cadeleigh, which is called the Cadeleigh Arms.
Between 1885 and 1963 Cadeleigh also had a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
, although it was actually located much closer to the nearby village of
Bickleigh
Bickleigh may refer to the following places in Devon, England:
* Bickleigh, Mid Devon, a village near Tiverton
** Bickleigh Castle
* Bickleigh, South Hams
Bickleigh is a small village on the southern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It h ...
(in fact, the railway station was named "Cadeleigh and Bickleigh" before 1906).
Further reading
*Silvester, R.J., and Richardson, I.J., ''The Manor of Cadeleigh near Tiverton'', Report of the Transactions of the Devon Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 116, 1984, pp. 13–27.
References
External links
*The Cadeleigh Arm
*Cadeleigh village web sit
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Villages in Devon