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.

^{The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on the 19th March 2025.}

The minutes of the last one held in January are online, however, if you are looking at the noticeboards, they will be missing.  The ones for the village hall are just inside the village hall doors.  The ones at the chapel are resting on the inside of them as they are up at the Inwardleigh Notice board.  If you need any help or a copy of the minutes sent to you please contact the clerk on either 0788 600 491.

^{Pot holes.}

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. 

^{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.