Stoodleigh

Stoodleigh is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon District, England, located 6 miles north of Tiverton and five miles south of Bampton. It is situated 800ft above the Exe Valley, close to the Devon/Somerset border. The centre of the village is a conservation area. [http://www.stoodleigh.org/id2.html "About Stoodleigh"] , Stoodleigh.org]

In the past it formed part of Witheridge Hundred and it is within the Tiverton Deanery of the Church of England. [ [http://www.devon.gov.uk/etched?url=etched/ixbin/hixclient.exe&_IXP_=1&_IXR=110416 "Stoodleigh community page"] , Devon County Council]

Castle Close

Castle Close is a circular earthwork, close to Stoodleigh, that is most likely to be an Iron Age Hill fort or enclosure. [R.R.Sellman; Aspects of Devon History, Devon Books 1985 - ISBN 0861147561 - Chapter 2; The Iron Age in Devon. Map Page 11 of Iron Age hill forts in Devon includes Castle Close.]

Church of St Margaret's

The Church of St Margaret's was constructed in the 15th century and was extensively restored in 1782. [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~footprints1/dev1/stoodleigh/homepage.htm "Stoodleigh St. Margaret's"] , Rootsweb.com] It contains a Norman font which is likely to have come from an earlier church in the parish where the first recorded incumbent was installed in 1264.

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