Deanery of Hartland

The Deanery of Hartland represents the Church of England in the north west corner of Devon within the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple and the Diocese of Exeter.[1]

Rural Dean of Hartland: The Reverend Penelope Dobbin

Benefice of Hartland Coast

Parishes within the benefice:

  • Alwington (St Andrew)
  • Buckland Brewer (St Mary and St Benedict)
  • Bucks Mills (St Anne)
  • Clovelly (All Saints; St Peter's Chapel)
  • Hartland (Saint Nectan)
  • Lundy (St Helen)
  • Parkham (St James)
  • Welcombe (St Nectan)
  • Woolfardisworthy West (All Hallows)

Clergy and readers:

  • Jane Skinner - team Rector (Parkham, Alwington, Buckland Brewer, Hartland, Welcombe, Clovelly, Woolfardisworthy West, Bucks Mills and Lundy)
  • Madeline Bray - team vicar (Parkham, Alwington and Buckland Brewer)
  • Jane Hayes - team curate
  • Andrew MacWilliam - reader
  • Margaret Rickard - reader
  • Eunice Dunn - reader

Benefice of Torridge Estuary (Bideford)

Parishes within the benefice:

  • Appledore (St Mary)
  • Bideford (St Mary; St Peter)
  • Landcross (Holy Trinity)
  • Littleham (St Swithin)
  • Monkleigh (St George)
  • Northam & Westward Ho! (St Margaret; Holy Trinity)
  • Weare Giffard (Holy Trinity)

Clergy and readers:

  • Clare Rose-Casemore - priest-in-charge
  • Ian Lovett - team vicar
  • Sandra Juniper - assistant curate
  • Alan Glover - self-supporting minister
  • Glen Yeo - reader
  • Peter Hooper - reader
  • Nigel Price - reader
  • Sarah Cordingley - reader

Benefice of Abbotsham

Clergy:

  • Francis Otto - priest in charge

References

  1. ^ Worth, R. N. (1882). "Address at the opening of the session 1882–83". Journal of the Plymouth Institution – Plymouth Athenaeum - Annual report and transactions. p. 191. that the deaneries continue living units of county organization, in a sense which the hundreds have long ceased to fill ... Hartland Deanery includes not only the whole of the present Hartland Hundred, but the northern portion of Shebbear, over ...
  • "The Deanery of Hartland". Devon Family History Society.
  • Chope, Richard Pearse; Thornley, Isobel Dorothy (1940). The book of Hartland. The Devonshire Press.
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