Rousdon
Rousdon | ||
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Shire county | ||
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Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | LYME REGIS | |
Postcode district | DT7 | |
Police | Devon and Cornwall | |
Fire | Devon and Somerset | |
Ambulance | South Western | |
UK Parliament | ||
Rousdon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Combpyne Rousdon, in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It is off the A3052 road between Colyford and Lyme Regis in Dorset. In 1931 the parish had a population of 41.[1] On 1 April 1939 the parish was abolished to form "Combpyne Rousdon".[2]
The clifftop but well set back village developed as the main settlement, within its ecclesiastical parish Combpyne,[3] which otherwise has only a few houses by its church and scattered farms. It did so north of Sir Henry Peek's grand house, billiard house and separate stable courtyard chiefly in the early 19th century. A boarding school called Allhallows moved there from Honiton in 1937 and closed in 1998.
Adjoining the small fields to the south are the coastal cliffs which lie above the
Layout
Rousdon is a small linear hamlet laid out to the north of the A3052. The village comprises a small number of dwellings arranged around the A3052 and a private lane, School Lane, a short distance further to the north of Peek Hall (now the Rousdon Village Hall and Social Club). The village also has a number of business within it such as the Rousdon Village Bakery and several car repair garages.
Between these is a new build development on the site of a former water tower which forms holiday rental accommodation. Five fields at the heart of the village, south of the main street and around the touring park to the north are lined with mature trees, but surrounding land is intensively agricultural and has modest or narrow hedgerows around most fields. The Undercliff has most of the trees of the south of the parish, in the northern end, Pynecomb copses grow increasingly towards the north. Horton near Uplyme to the far north-east is still well-forested.
History
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The parish and manor were anciently known over time as: Dona (per the
References
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Rousdon CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ map of this ecclesiastical parish Church of England
External links
Media related to Rousdon at Wikimedia Commons