Official Name: | Monkokehampton |
Static Image: | Monkokehampton post office, Devon - geograph.org.uk - 1532454.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Monkokehampton Post Office in 1995 |
Coordinates: | 50.8311°N -4.0144°W |
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 |
Monkokehampton is a village and civil parish in West Devon, England. The village lies on the River Okement, about 3miles east-north-east of Hatherleigh.[1] The parish is bounded by Hatherleigh, Exbourne, Broadwoodkelly and Iddesleigh,[2] and had a population of 139 at the 2011 Census.
Alternative names for Monkokehampton are "Monk Okehampton", "Okehampton" and "Okehampton Monk".[3]
There are 16 listed buildings in Monkokehampton.[4] Monkokehampton has a church called All Saints.[5]
Monkokehampton was recorded in the Domesday Book as Monuchementone/Monacochamentona.[6] Monk Okehampton once belonged to Glastonbury Abbey.[7] The parish was historically in the Black Torrington hundred.[8] 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.[9]