Exmoor Parish (ExP/CP)

Statistics

Population

Population

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Industry

Industry

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.
Social Structure

Social Structure

Social class and socio-economic groups. Concentrations of professionals, and of unskilled labourers.
Housing

Housing

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.
Place marker map of Great Britain and Ireland

The unit has had the following statuses:

Status Abbreviation Start End Authority
Extra-Parochial Area ExP     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979) Permission granted to project.
Civil Parish CP 1858   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979) Permission granted to project.

This unit was associated with the following other units:

Nature of association Other unit involved Type of unit Authority
was succeeded by EXMOOR EP Ecclesiastical Parish F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.

This unit was part of the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
DEVON Ancient County   1884 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 85.
SOMERSET Ancient County     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
DULVERTON RegD/PLU Poor Law Union/Reg. District     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
SOUTH MOLTON RegD/PLU Poor Law Union/Reg. District   1884 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
TIVERTON RegD Poor Law Union/Reg. District   by 1861 1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
DULVERTON RD Local Government District     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
DULVERTON RSD Sanitary District     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
DULVERTON Registration sub-District     1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
EXMOOR Registration sub-District     1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'.
SOUTH MOLTON RSD Sanitary District   1884 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 85.
SOUTH MOLTON Registration sub-District     1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
SOUTH MOLTON Hundred Ancient District   1884 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
WILLITON AND FREEMANORS Hundred Ancient District     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date Type of change Other unit involved Area transferred Authority
24 Mar 1884 was reduced to enlarge NORTH MOLTON CP/AP That part in the county of Devon   1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 14, 'Changes in the Areas of Civil Parishes effected by Local Government Board Orders under the Provisions of the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876 and 1879, or by the Act of 1882'.; LGBO 16348

Boundary Map of Exmoor Parish (ExP/CP)

If the boundaries of the Parish-level Unit changed over time, this map will show all the different boundaries.

Maps Census reports

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Exmoor Parish (ExP/CP) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10431219

Date accessed: 08th April 2026