Issued to celebrate nine hundred years of Norman heritage This community is recorded in the Domesday Book 1086 Domesday 1086 - 1986
The Domeday Book online lists the site as 'Bichelie / lia: Alward from Count of Mortain. Mill.'. The Bickleigh Castle Historical Timeline reports that in "600 AD The Saxon Meeting House (now the Chapel) was first built.", BBC Domesday Reloaded