Dunchideock

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title: "Dunchideock" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["civil-parishes-in-devon", "devon-places-with-etymologically-brittonic-names"] description: "Civil parish in Devon, England" topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunchideock" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Civil parish in Devon, England ::

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Field	Value
static_image	View over Dunchideock.jpg
static_image_width	300px
static_image_caption	A view over part of Dunchideock.
The church is on the right with Dunchideock farm in front. Haldon Belvedere is on the skyline to the left.
country	England
region	South West England
shire_county	Devon
shire_district	Teignbridge
official_name	Dunchideock
population	262
population_ref	(2001 UK Census)
os_grid_reference	SX8887
coordinates
post_town	EXETER
postcode_area	EX
postcode_district	EX2, EX6
dial_code	01626
constituency_westminster	Teignbridge
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| static_image = View over Dunchideock.jpg | static_image_width = 300px | static_image_caption = A view over part of Dunchideock. The church is on the right with Dunchideock farm in front. Haldon Belvedere is on the skyline to the left. | country = England | region = South West England | shire_county = Devon | shire_district = Teignbridge | official_name = Dunchideock | population = 262 | population_ref = (2001 UK Census) | os_grid_reference = SX8887 | coordinates = | post_town = EXETER | postcode_area = EX | postcode_district = EX2, EX6 | dial_code = 01626 | constituency_westminster = Teignbridge Dunchideock ( , ) is a small civil parish on the north eastern slopes of the Haldon Hills in Teignbridge, Devon, England. It covers an area of 392 ha{{cite web |url=http://dudley.giving.officelive.com/aboutus.aspx |title=A Brief Outline of the Parish |publisher=Dunchideock Parish |access-date=2009-07-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607220259/http://dudley.giving.officelive.com/aboutus.aspx |archive-date=2010-06-07 | last = Harris | first = Helen | title = A Handbook of Devon Parishes | publisher = Halsgrove | location = Tiverton | year = 2004 | pages = 62–63 | isbn = 1-84114-314-6

Etymology

The name Dunchideock originates in the Common Brittonic language. First attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Donsedoc, the first part of the name derives from the word whose modern Welsh form is din ("fort"), while the second part is the adjective found in modern Welsh as coediog ("wooded"). The form of the Dun-element later changed by association with the Old English word dūn ("hill"). According to W. G. Hoskins, the place-name originally referred to the nearby Iron Age hill fort of Cotley Castle.{{cite book | last = Hoskins | first = W. G. | title = A New Survey of England: Devon | publisher = Collins | location = London | year = 1972 | edition = New | pages = 390–391 | isbn = 0-7153-5577-5

History

The parish church is dedicated to St Michael and is Grade I listed.{{NHLE |num=1334285 |desc=Church of St Michael, Biddypark Lane, Dunchideock |access-date=2009-07-21}} It originated in 1308 at the latest, but the present church building, built of red sandstone, was started in the late 14th century. It has been partially rebuilt and restored many times. There is a good font dated to around 1400, some notable carved bench-ends, roof-bosses and rood-screen; and several memorials, most notably to Aaron Baker, who rebuilt the chancel aisle in 1669, and Stringer Lawrence. The theological writer Bourchier Wrey Savile was rector of Dunchideock with Shillingford St. George from 1872 to his death in 1888.{{cite web |url = http://venn.csi.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=SVL835BW&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |title = A Cambridge Alumni Database |publisher = University of Cambridge |access-date = 2009-07-21

Within the parish was the former Haldon House which was the home of Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet. Mostly demolished in the 1920s, the remaining wing is now the Best Western "Lord Haldon Hotel". Also in the parish is Haldon Belvedere, a triangular tower on top of Haldon that was built by Palk in 1788 in memory of his friend General Stringer Lawrence.{{cite web |url=http://dudley.giving.officelive.com/Belvedere_page2.aspx |title=Haldon Belvedere (Lawrence Castle) - Brief History |publisher=Dunchideock Parish |access-date=2009-07-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815074630/http://dudley.giving.officelive.com/Belvedere_page2.aspx |archive-date=2011-08-15

Archie Winckworth, the former owner of Dunchideock House, posted a memoir about the village and its history, including an account of its buried treasure.{{cite web |url=http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Dunchideock/Memories.html |title=GENUKI/Devon: Memories of Dunchideock |publisher=genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk |access-date=2009-07-20 |last=Winckworth |first=A. N. |archive-date=1 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001222043/http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Dunchideock/Memories.html |url-status=dead | last = Barber | first = Chips | title = Around & About the Haldon Hills | publisher = Obelisk Publications | year = 1982 | pages = 95–97 | isbn = 0-946651-14-0}}

References

it is owned by the ellis family which they have owned for 5 generations

References

1. (9 September 2013). "Facts and Figures". Devon County Council.
2. (1931–32). "The Place-Names of Devon". Cambridge University Press.
3. (2000). "Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain". Tyas.
4. (2004). "The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society". Cambridge University Press.

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