Burrington, Devon

{{Short description|Village in Devon, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

|static_image_name= Northcote Manor Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 554783.jpg

|static_image_width= 240

|static_image_caption= [https://www.northcotemanor.co.uk/ Northcote Manor Hotel]

|coordinates = {{coord|50.933889|-3.939444|display=inline,title}}

|country = England

|official_name= Burrington

|population = 538

|population_ref = (2001)

|civil_parish= Burrington

|shire_district= North Devon

|shire_county = Devon

|region= South West England

|os_grid_reference = SS6316

|dial_code= 01769

|post_town= UMBERLEIGH

|postcode_district= EX37

|postcode_area= EX

|constituency_westminster= North Devon

}}

Burrington is a village and civil parish in North Devon in England. In 2001 the population was 538.[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790362 Office for National Statistics: Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: North Devon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612112123/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790362 |date=12 June 2011 }} Retrieved 28 January 2010

The village has a church, a Methodist chapel, a pub and shop-cum-Post Office. Unusually for a Devon village it has excellent bus services between Barnstaple and Exeter. The church, Holy Trinity, is Grade I listed and the pub, the Barnstaple Inn, is Grade II listed. The pub is one of only two buildings within the village that are still thatched.

The parish church of Holy Trinity dates from the 16th century, but it is of old foundation and its incumbents are recorded from 1277. It has a notable granite arcade, wagon roof with carved bosses, an early 16th-century rood screen and a Norman font.{{Cite book

| last = Harris

| first = Helen

| title = A Handbook of Devon Parishes

| publisher = Halsgrove

| location = Tiverton

| year = 2004

| isbn = 1-84114-314-6

| page = 37

}} The tower is in the position of a north transept. The south door is original and has blank Perpendicular tracery; the communion rails are c. 1700.Pevsner, N. (1952) North Devon. Harmondsworth: Penguin; pp. 65-66 Northcote Manor, dating from at least the 1700s is located within the parish.{{Cite web|url=https://www.northcotemanor.co.uk/history|title=Nortcote Manor - History}}

The parish records include the baptisms of the three children of William and Ann Blackmore (of Town) during the 1820s. William is described as the schoolteacher. One of the vicars of Burrington was Samuel Davis, the second of whose wives was Jane Elizabeth Blackmore, half-sister of Richard Doddridge Blackmore, the author of Lorna Doone.