Landkey is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of South Molton Hundred. It falls within Shirwell Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 607 in 1801 621 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 150 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in South Molton Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.

Maps: The image below is of the Landkey area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 13/12 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 13SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS594312. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS53SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Outdoor Leisure 09, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 293 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

LANDKEY church (St. Paul) is most attractive, entirely a late 15th century building, except for the chancel which was rebuilt in 1870. It is plastered and whitened throughout, with ceiled and bossed roofs, and possesses an elegant early Perpendicular font c. 1400. The N. aisle contains three stone effigies of the Beaupels who held the manor ofLandkey under the Bishop of Exeter. The small S. transept is the Acland chapel, and contains a fine coloured monument to Sir Arthur Acland (1610) and his wife. The Aclands, one of the most notable of Devon families, originated at Acland Barton, from which they took their name in Henry II's time. They continued to own it until 1945, when Sir Richard Acland sold it to the tenant. The farmhouse is a very interesting example of a late 15th century "mansion," remodelled internally in 1591, and again altered slightly in the 18th century (plate 35)."