The parish of Hawkchurch was transferred to Devon from Dorset in 1896.
Anciently, it was part of the old Dorsetshire Hundred of Whitway.
There are two tythings - Phillyholme and Wyld Court.
 
 
 

Resources

Lay Subsidy Rolls
1545   1594

Muster Rolls
1539   1542   1569   1827

Hawkchurch Men in the Monmouth Rebellion
1685

Baptisms
1731-1897

Marriages
1664-1844

Burials
1664-1900

Dorset Poll Book
1807

Attendees at the Perambulation of the Bounds
1830   1831

Census
1841  1851  1861  1871  1881  1891  1901

Trade Directory Entries
1851  1859  1865  1875  1880  1895  1902  1914  1919  1923  1926  1935

Honour Roll : Hawkchurch men who fell in the Great War
1914-1918

Monumental Inscriptions from St John the Baptist churchyard
(from Pulman)

Index Militia papers

Index Wills & Admons from various sources

Index Hawkchurch lease & land holders from various

Index misc. references to Hawkchurch folk from various sources

Hawkchurch : Where Dorset Meets Devon (Jack Banfield & Harry Austin 1996)

The Book of the Axe  (George Pulman 1875)

Where Dorset Meets Devon (Francis Bickley 1911)

Archive Photographs series: The Book of the Axe   (Les Berry & Gerald Gosling 1996)
 

Buy the Hawkchurch parish history 'Hawkchurch:Where Dorset meets Devon'

View a map of the ancient Hundred of Whitway from Dorsetshire.com

View Greenwood's 1827 map

Find the 1891 ordinance survey map in the county gazetteer under DORSET

Find the latest ordinance survey map of Hawkchurch at streetmap.co.uk

Hawkchurch Heritage link at Devon Local Studies Library

Search the Francis Frith historic photograph collection
 
 

Click on the link below to go to the related Genuki site
 

Hawkchurch
 

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Hawkchurch researchers' websites

Jeffrey, Stoodley, Lane

Stokes
 

Hawkchurch on Curious Fox UK Gazetteer