A paper was published in the 2023 edition of the Devonshire Association Report and Transactions that investigated the earliest documents relating to Widecombe Church.
The paper aims to clarify what these documents reveal about the events and personalities recorded in them and considers how Widecombe Church integrated into the wider context of the Church in Devon and beyond. As a result, new information has emerged about the people and places involved that revises and enhances current understanding of the events of the time. The original documents are to be found in the Exeter Cathedral Archive and the archives of the South West Heritage Trust and a number are reproduced in the paper to give the reader an immediate connection to these intriguing past events.