Monkokehampton

{{Infobox UK place

|official_name= Monkokehampton

|static_image= Monkokehampton post office, Devon - geograph.org.uk - 1532454.jpg

|static_image_caption= Monkokehampton Post Office in 1995

|coordinates= {{coord|50.831077|-4.0143975|display=inline,title}}

|area_total_km2= 4.6258

|population= 139

|population_ref= (2011)

|os_grid_reference= SS582054

|civil_parish= Monkokehampton

|shire_district= West Devon

|shire_county= Devon

|region= South West England

|country= England

|post_town= WINKLEIGH

|postcode_area= EX

|postcode_district= EX19

|dial_code= 01837

|constituency_westminster= Central Devon

|website=

}}

Monkokehampton is a village and civil parish in West Devon, England. The village lies on the River Okement, about {{convert|3|mi|km}} east-north-east of Hatherleigh.{{cite web |title=History of Monk Okehampton in West Devon - Map and description |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1881 |publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time |access-date=28 February 2019}} The parish is bounded by Hatherleigh, Exbourne, Broadwoodkelly and Iddesleigh,{{cite web |title=Monkokehampton |url=http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000022953 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=28 February 2019}} and had a population of 139 at the 2011 Census.{{NOMIS2011|id=E04003339|title=Monkokehampton Parish|access-date=28 February 2019}}

Alternative names for Monkokehampton are "Monk Okehampton", "Okehampton" and "Okehampton Monk".{{cite web |title=History of Monk Okehampton in West Devon - Place names |url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1881/names |publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time |access-date=28 February 2019}}

Features

There are 16 listed buildings in Monkokehampton.{{cite web |title=Listed Buildings in Monkokehampton, West Devon, Devon |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/monkokehampton-west-devon-devon |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=28 February 2019}} Monkokehampton has a church called All Saints.{{cite web |title=All Saints, Monkokehampton |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/9122/ |publisher=A Church Near You |access-date=27 July 2020}}

History

Monkokehampton was recorded in the Domesday Book as Monuchementone/Monacochamentona.{{cite web |title=Devonshire M-R |url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/devonshire5.html#monkokehampton |publisher=The Domesday Book Online |access-date=28 February 2019}} Monk Okehampton once belonged to Glastonbury Abbey.{{cite book |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |year=1960 |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJkYAAAAIAAJ |publisher=Clarendon Press |page=348 |isbn=0198691033 |access-date=28 February 2019}} The parish was historically in the Black Torrington hundred.{{cite web |title=The Hundreds of Devon |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Hundreds#BlackTorrington |publisher=GENUKI |access-date=28 February 2019}} On the 25th of March 1885 Barntown, Upcott, and Lewersland were transferred from the parish of Monk Okehampton to the parish of Broadwood Kelly. The transferred area contained two houses in 1891.{{cite web |title=Monk Okehampton AP/CP through time |url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10023658 |publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time |access-date=1 March 2019}}

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External links

Category:Villages in the Borough of West Devon