Templeton, Devon

TEMPLETON is a small rural village in the Mid Devon District Council area of Devon, located about 5 miles west from Tiverton.

Access to the village is from several different directions, though the most dramatic is through a ford and up a very steep narrow lane with grass growing in the middle and the hedges meeting overhead. 

Templeton is a busy and sociable village which has a well equipped Village Hall, with a bar and large car park, community events are held here throughout the year. 

In addition to this, Templeton has a 'Book Club', 'Art Club', 'Gardening Club' and a ''Knit and Natter get together' for its local parishioners.

The village hosts, with the Exe Valley Rotary Club, the very popular annual ''Feighan Fury' 10 mile trail race with a 5k family fun run through the stunning local countryside and woodland. 

The local 'Tractor Run' is hosted by the village to raise funds for The British Heart Foundation and St Margaret's Church.

There is also an annual 'Village Fete' and a very well attended, open to all, 'Bonfire Night'. 

Along with all of this, there are yearly pop up events organised by the Village Hall Committee and St Margaret's Church Parochial Committee.

A brief history of Templeton

The Parish Church, built in 1355 by or for the Knights Templars, is dedicated to St Margaret.

Research shows that Templeton was once a Manor owned by Sir William Pole.  Historically, Templeton was in possession of the Knights Templar, and after the suppression of that order in 1312 passed to the Knights Hospitaller of St John.  Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII, Templeton was taken into the ownership of the Crown. Templeton was then re-granted by the King to George Loosemore, whose son Robert Loosemore sold it to Sir William Peryam of Little Fulford near Crediton, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.  On the marriage of his eldest daughter Mary Peryam to Sir William Pole of Shute, he conveyed the manor of Templeton to her husband as part of her marriage settlement .