Welcome to the official website for Inwardleigh Parish Council
Inwardleigh is a rural parish in West Devon, about 2 miles north west of Okehampton. There are two main settlements, the villages of Inwardleigh and Folly Gate, and numerous scattered farms and hamlets. The main A386 Okehampton to Hatherleigh and Bideford road runs north-south through the parish.
Prism Lane
Prism lane pot hole/ road surface, has been reported by a number of people and it was reported again this morning (19th October) to the emergency highways response team. This along with numerous other pot holes that have been raised at our meetings and reported accordingly. If you have a smartphone, please use the link below to report pot holes, it doesnt require any in depth information and perhaps if they receive a lot of reports it might prompt some action. The matter of Prism Lane junction with the A386 has also been raised with our West Devon Councillor along with the Devon County Councillor.
https://www.devon.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/report-a-problem/map/map_src/poth/#gf_52
Roadworks, how to find out the latest in your area:-
https://one.network/ click on this link and expand the page and it shows all the roadworks that are currently being carried out. Sadly it doesnt show any emergency roadworks.
Bus timetable Changes:-
Bus timetable changes Service 5A ( Okehampton – Hatherleigh – North Tawton – Crediton – Exeter):
The 13:50 bus operating Monday to Saturday from Okehampton will operate 30 minutes earlier.
The 16:50 bus operating Monday to Saturday from Exeter, will depart 10 minutes later, to logically follow after a 5 bus, to ensure there is capacity for passengers travelling beyond Crediton.
Inwardleigh appears in the Domesday Book, where it is listed as
belonging to Ingvar in 1066. Ingvar was a Viking thegn and member of the
court of King Cnut, and held several estates across southern Britain.
Inwardleigh – meaning Ingvar’s meadow – is derived from his name.
After
the Norman Conquest the estates passed to Baldwin FitzGilbert, who
accompanied William at Hastings, and who subsequently administered Devon
from Exeter as Sheriff of Devon.
The estates were subsequently owned first by the Coffin or Coffyn family, and then by the Portman family.
St
Petroc’s Church was built in the 14th century on an earlier Norman
church, and has been restored in the nineteenth century, although much
of the earlier building is intact.
Folly Gate, on the main road
through the parish, was on the turnpike from Okehampton to Hatherleigh,
and may take its name from a nearby house. In 1928 Folly Gate army
aerodrome was opened for visiting RAF squadrons. During WW2 it was a
maintenance base and artillery spotter aircraft were based here. The
airfield is now decommissioned and returned to agricultural use, but the
WAAF quarters remain and have been converted to Folly Gate Village
Hall.