DEVONSHIRE - 1893 (1)

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BIDEFORD. 63

Heywood Charles, grocer & collector of land, property & in- Luxton William Henry, grocer, Clovelly road •

come taxes & local water rate, 5 Honestone street Lythaby Lydia (Miss), draper, Market place

Hicks John, linen draper & tailor, 6r Mill st.reet Lythaby Sarah (Miss), apartments, 9 The Strand

Hill Helena (Mrs.), lodging house, Carlton house, Quay McBryde & Co. linen collar makers, Northam road

Hlllgarden Temperance Hotel & Restaurant; McNallan Bernard, Horse & Jockey P.H. Honestone street

superior accommodation for tourists, travellers & com- Madge B. (Miss), dress maker, Bridgeland street

mercial gentlemen ; good quarters for the C. T. 0. & Madge Ellen (Mrs.), apartments, Quay house

moderate charges (Thomas Martin Geen, propr. ), Mill st Madge Frederick, painter, North road

Hoare Thomas, tailor, 1 Honestone street Madge James, bakel' & shopkeeper, 40 High street

Hoare William, printer, Sydenham place Madge Thomas, shopkeeper, 23 Coldharbour

Hogg Thomas, chemist, Bridge end Maine James, joiner, Providence row

Hole & Peard, solicitors, Willett street Manning John Hayman, stone mason, 30 Elm grove

Hole Charles William, (firm, Hole & Peard), solicitor & Martin Thomas, dairyman & ~arriage proprietor, 41 Mill st.

notary public, commissioner to administer oaths, per- Martin William, builder, Lime grove

petual commissioner for taking acknowledgments of deeds Meredith Harold Inglesby, ironmonger, rB High street.

by married women, town clerk, bridge steward, & clerk Miller Richard, smith, Honestone street

to the borough & county magistrates, to commissioners Mills John, shoeing smith, Torridge hill

of taxes for t;hebbear North district & clerk to Bideford Milsom John S. assistant overseer, collector of poor rates &

union & the assessment ('Ommittee, supt. registrar, clerk school attendance officer, I Elmsleigh terrace, Old Town

to Northam local board, Bideford urban sanitary authority Milton & Sons, earthenware, tile chimney tops, drain pipes,

& to school board, Willett street make ovens a speciality, Old pottery, North road

Holman Daniel, jobmaster, 13 Lower Gunstone Minards John, boot & shoe dealer, 49 Mill street

Holman John Fishley, butcher & farmer, 3 Allhalland street Mitchell Mary (Miss), dress maker, Highfield phce

Holloway Michael, smith, Marine gardens M1tchell Thom<ts, ooal merchant, Torrington lane

Hookway Charles, Barley Mow P.H. 63 Mill street Morley :Frank Ernest, baker & confectioner, 18 Market place

Hookway Richard, ddiryman & baker, 24 Old town Morris Charles, stone mason, Meddon stl'eet

Hookway Robt. 'faylor, architect & survyr. Bath ho. Strand Mountjoy Samuel H. clerk, 12 Elmsleigh terrace

Hookway Samuel, King's Arms P.H, 7 The Quay Murphy William Charles, photographer & dealer in antique

Hooper Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.), lodging house, 4 The Quay furniture, 2, 3 & 4 Mill street

Hooper Thomas, Steam Packet P.H. The Quay Narraway John Whitlock, tanner & leather merchant, 8

Hooper William, oilman, 28 Elm grove PonestJne street

Hopkins Henry Heard, general smith & coal merchant, Na ional & Provincial Bank of England Limited (William S.

Belvoir estate Bourne, manager), High st. 1 draw on head office, London

Hopson Christr. birmingham& sheffield wareho. Market pl Newcombe William, farmer, Ford farm, New road

Hopson George, furniture warehouse, 24 Mill street Nichols William, dairyman, 25 &26 High street

Horn James, boot & shoe dealer, 4 Allhalland street Nicklin & Son, music dealers, 14 Mill street

How John & Co. corn, timber, manure & general merchants; North Devon Building Society (John Lamerton, sec.h

wood sawing & bone crushing by gas power (Samuel Bridge chambers

Bennett, manager), Commercial wharf, Bideford ; RoUe's Oatway Alfred, watch maker, 85 High street

quay, Barnstaple & Railway station, Torrington Oatway John, deputy registrar of births & deaths for Bide-

Hoyle Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Honestone street ford sub-district, Allhalland street

Hudson John G. painter & house decorator, 6 Buttgarden st Oatway Thomas, relieving & vaccination officer for Eastern

Hutchings Brothers Co. auctioneers, the Co-operative Coal district & rAgistrar of births & deaths for Bideford sub-

Co. house agents & appraisers, manure & spice merchants, district, Bideford union, 8 Allhalland street

accountants & shipping agents to all parts of the world, Olde James, travelling draper, 3 Trafalgar place

New road; at Westward Ho! & at Barry, S. Wales Paddon Thomas Jenkins, builder, 13 North road

Hutchings "\-Vm. & Jn. wool, corn & seed mers. Honestone st Parkhouse George, Heavitree Arms P. H. 16 Mill street

Hutchings Richard, bill poster, Bridge street Parsons Frank, grocer, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine &

Huxham H. Willett; office, The Quay spirit merchants, 75 High street

Huxtable John Thorne, grocer, 32 Mill street Partridge Edward, auctioneer, land agent,. surveyor, agri-

Inland Revenue Office(Wm.Cumberland, supervsr.),High st cultuNl & general valuer, Grenville st. & at Monkleigb.

Jenkin Philip Henry, watch maker, 12 Allhalland street Passmore John, Maltscoop inn, & dairyman, .5 Cooper street

Jenkins John, Princess Royal inn, Barnstaple street Pattison F. G. manager W. H. Smith & Co.'s book stall,

Jenkins William, coal dealer, Higher Gunstone Rock lea

Jennings James, Angel P.H. Market place Pavey William, chimney sweeper, Lower Meddon street

Jewell John, shoe maker & rural postman, 13 Pimlico place Peard George Oliver, solicitor, & deputy superintenden~

Jewell William Henry, ironmonger, Market place registrar, see Hole & Peard

Joce William Dunn, chemist & wine & spirit merchant, 6 Pearse Charles, printer & bookbinder, 9 Allhalland street

Grenville street Pearse Mary (Mrs.), dress maker, 23 Lime grove

Johns Edward, shoeing smith, Mill street Pedler John, seedsman & fruiterer, 45 Miil street

Johns Richard, farmer, Grange farm, East-the-Water Perkin Elizabeth & Ellen (Misses), dress makers, n Butt-

Joint & Son, game dealers, Huttgarden street garden street

Jones William, master mariner, 35 Mill street Parkins Fanny 0. ~Mrs.}, fruiterer, 9 Mill st.reet

Keall-Parkhouse Wm. prof. of music, 9 South View terrace Perry Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodgin~ house, High street

Keates Susan (M!"s. ), lodgini house, 4 Marine gardens Perry Robert A. china & glass dealer, 7 High street

Kingdon & Son, tea dealers, 2 Buttgarden street Perryman S.H. (Mrs.), apartments, 21 Prospect pl.TheQuay

KivellRd. baker, East-the-Water, & confectioner, 6o Mill st Phear Winiam, carrier to Barm;taple, East-the-Water

Knowles George, White Hart P.H. 8 Queen street Phillips Carrie (Miss), dress maker, 13 Buttgarden street

Lamerton James, builder, 36 High .street Phillips J ames, shopkeeper, East-the-Water

Lamerton Thomas, wheelwright, Higher Gunstone Phillips John, farmer, Lower Winsford

Land John, fishmonger, 59 Mill street Pickard John, machinist, 2 Rockmount terrace

Lane Ann (Mrs.), apartments, 4 Cooper street Pickard John, boot maker, High street

Lang Caroline (Mrs.), boot & shoe wal'ehouse, 49 Mill st Pickard Thomas, cowkeeper, 54 High street

Lang Ellen (Mrs.), corset maker, 22 High street Pickard William B. house decorator, 56 High street

Lang Thomas, Castle inn, Allhalland street Pitt Margaret H. (Mrs.), la::lies' & children's outfitter,

Langbridge Mary Ann (Mrs.), cabinet maker, 10 Mill st 41 High street

Lawrence Waiter Samuel, dentist, 66 High street Pollard George & Thos. mineral black paint manufacturers~

Leigh Geoffry, manager of Fox, Fowler & Co.'s Bank, High st coal & manure merchants, East-the-Water

Lendon William Ellis, ironmonger, 52 Mill street Pound James Rounsfell, artists' colorman & decorator, 14

Leonard William & ~on, coal dealers, New road Mill street

Lewis James, lodging house & ironmonger, II The Quay Powe Mary (Miss), grocer, & lodging ho. 5 Buttgarden st

Ley Ellen (Miss), young ladies' school, 13 Bridglandstreet Powter William, lodging house, Alexandra house, The Quay

Ley John, shopkeeper, I North road Prance Frederick William, mariner, Old town

Little George, marine store dealer, High street Prance Joseph, fishmonger, 25 & 26 Mill street

. Little James, Tradesman's inn, Cooper street Prance William, fishmonger, 43 Mill street

Littlejohn John C. accountant, 4 Trafalgar place Prideaux Mary (Miss), milliner, 620, Mill street

Littlejohns Philippa. (Mrs.), milliner, 4 Trafalgar place Pridham William & Son, agents for the London & South

Loek Margaret Eastman (Miss), milliner, North Toad Western Railway Co. Bridge end -·-··

Low Percy Charles D.A., x.u., B.O. surgeon, 28 High street Pridham Thomas, saddler & harness maker, GTenville street.

Lugg John, shopkeeper, Milton place PTior William, painter, Lime grove

Lugg John, plumber & inspector of common lojging houses Priscott Ueorge, butcher, SA, Grenville street

& nuisances &c. High street l'riscott James, plumber & blacksmith, New stree~

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Prouse James, boot& shoe manufacturer, tanner, currier & Thomas Stephen, head master of the School of Science &

leather merchant, High street .Art, Bridge chambers

Puddieombe William Henry, photographer, Strand Thompson Charles Sinclair M.B., C.M. surgeon, & medical

l'yke William, solicitor, The Quay officer & public vaccinator for Bideford district & medical

Rattenbury John, grocer, 57 Mill street officer for Buckland Brewer district, 4 Buttgarden street

Redcliffe & Backway, potters, East-the-Water Thompson Mary (Mrs.), stationer, 10 High street

Redcliffe .Alfred W. shopkeeper, New street Thorn Richard, seed merchant, 7 Buttgarden street

Redcliffe William, marine store dealer, East-the-Water Thurlow Edward, Newfoundland hotel, Quay

Rendle Thomas, wheelwright, Geneva place Torrington Chronicle (Thomas Tedrake,printer& publisher),

Richards Thomas, draper, 13 & 14 High street 48 Mill street

Ridge Mary (Miss), apartments, Culver buildgs. The Strand Town Hall (Thomas Sanders, keeper), Bridge end

Rodd Elizabeth (Mrs.), Joiners' .Arms P.H. Market place Tr11.pnell Frank, tailor, habit & costume maker, 19 High st

Rodgman Charles, boot maker & postman, Highfield place Trewin Thomas, corn merchant, The Quay

Uodgman Mary(Mrs.), apartments, 34 Elm grove Trick Jane (Miss), fancy repository, II High street

Rogers Albert J. watch maker, 13 Mill street Trick William, apartments, 33 High street

H.ook James, marine store dealer, East-the-Water Tucker John, corn & seed merchant, East-the-Water

Rooker & Bazeley, solicitors & notaries public, 28 Bridge- Tucker George Manley, manager for "Marquis of Lorne"

land street steamer (Bideford & Bristol), 16 Allhalland street

Roskruge Mary &Sophia (Misses), fancyrepos. Bridgeland st Tucker John Edward, accountant, 29 Bridgeland street

House & Gooding, surgeons, u Bridgeland street ; & at Tucker Thirza (Mrs.), agent to Mortimer's dyeing works

Westward Ho! (Plymouth), 16 .Allhalland street

Rouse Ezekiel L.R.c.P.Edin. surgeon, & medical officer of Tucker Thomas, New Ring of Bells P.H. & dairyman, Hone-

health for Bideford rural & Northam urban sanitary stone street

authorities & surgeon to U.S. college, Westward Ho! II Turner .Alfred, leather merchant, 22 & 23 High street

Bridgeland street Turner George, solicitor & clerk to the district highway

Royal hotel, family, tourist & private; billiard smoking, board, Bridgeland street

dining &reading saloons; posting & livery stables; moder- Turner William & Son, farmers, The Barton

ate ter.:ms on application to Stanley Heard, proprietor Turner William Henry, farmer, see Turner William & Son

Rudd Annie (Miss), dress maker, 22 Mill street Vanstone John Henry, master mariner, 15 Elmsleigh terrace,

Russell Sarah Jane (Miss), boot dealer, 4 High street Clovelly road ·

Sanders James, greengrocer, II Mill street Vanstone Sam, mariner, New street

Sanders John, baker, 17 .Allhalland street Vaughan .John, cutler, Bridge street

Sanders Thomas, shopkeeper, 2 Allhalland street Vellacott, Trapnell & Merefteld, linen drapers & silk

~anguine James, boot & shoe maker, Granville street mercers, carpet & furnishing warehousemen, 69 High st

Savings Bank (branch of Devon & Exeter) (George Turner, Verren Edwin, King of Prussia P.H. 27 New street

manager), Bridgeland street Verren John, cabinet maker, 19 Mill street

Schmidt Friedrich Rudolf, tailor, 8o High street Vincent & Duncan, linen collar manufacturers, Westcombe

~chool of Science & Art (Stephen Thomas, head master; Vivian Matthew Henry, insurance assistant superintendent,

• John Whitlock Narraway, sec.), Bridge chambers 14 Elmsleigh terrace

Scoins George, shopkeeper, 27 Mill street Volunteer Battalion (4th) Devonshire Regiment (E Co.)

Shadwick William, joiner, 27 Lime grove (Captain Gilbert Gorton, commanding; Surgeon-Lieut.

~harp William, marine store dealer, 37 Mill street Ezekiel Rouse, medical officer), Drill hall, Queen street

Short Thomas, mason, 17 Milton place Wakely James, joiner, Geneva place

Shute Mary (Mrs.), temperance hotel, Market place Waldron William Henry, boot &shoe maker, I Chingswell st

Sing Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker, Meddon street Way John, coal dealer, East-the-Water

Singer ManufacturingCo.(Alfd.Symons,manager), 12 Mill st Way William, locksmith, North road

Sloman Richard, clerk, 55 Elm grove Wav William, rope maker, Clovelly road

Smale Charles, solicitor & notary commissioner for taking Webb John, master mariner, I .Abbotsham road

oaths in chancery & all common law courts, & perpetual West William, wheolwright, North road

commissioner, solicitor to the North Devon Permanent & Westacott Charles, baker, 22 Meddon street

Terminable Benefit Building Society, 32 Bridgeland street Western Counties Equitable Benefit Building Society (Chas.

Smith John, apartments, 2 Lansdown terrace Heywood, sec.); offices, Market place

Spearman Richard, Three Tuns P.H. 8 The Quay Western Express (Thomas Tedrake, printer & publisher;

Squire & Son, watch & clock makers, 12 High street published tues. & sat.), 48 Mill street

Squire Caleb, painter &c. 76 High street Western William Henry, shoe maker, 6 Cooper street

Stamp Office (Thomas Murphy), Mill street Whitaker George, shoe maker, 53 Elm grove

Stapleton John, boot maker, New street Whitefield Wm. ship & yacht builder, Higher Cleavehouses

Stapleton Thomas, blacksmith, Gammaton Wickett George .A. M.R.c.v.s. veterinary surgeon (attends

Starr-Bowkett Building Society (ThomasAndrew, secretary), on Tuesdays at Market place, II to 5), North road

Grenville street Wickham & Co. wine & spirit merchants, 21 High street

Stephens Reuben, hair dresser & tobacconist, I Mill street Wilkinsou Fanny (Mrs.), dress maker, 13 Belmont terrace

Stevens Henry, drapel', u Grenville street Williams Charl~ ironmonger, I .Allhalland street

Stone Sarah (Mrs.), china & glass dealer, 6 .Allhalland street WilliamsJaneHoare(Miss), bookseller&statnr. 15 & 16 High st

Stone & Son, milliners & fancy drapers, 4 Grenville street Williams William Henry, shipwright, 14 Chingswell street

Stoneman Elizabeth (Mrs.), confectioner, 18 Mill street Wilson Bros. printers, stationers & engravers, 7 Mill street

.Symons Charles, plumber, Summer Hill house Wilson George Malam M.S.A. architect & surveyor, surveyor

Tapper Ellen (Miss), dress maker, 3 Bridgeland street to Bideford Starr-Bowkett Building Societies & insurance

Tardrew & Sons, ironfounders, ironmongers & electric light agent for Northern Imperial Union .Accident & National

contractors, 9 High street. See advertisement Insurance Companies, Bridge buildings

Tattersill & Sno-, grocers & provision merchants, Wilson John tailor, 38 Elm grove

Market place ; High street & Grenville street Witheridge George, sugar boiler, 34 Mill street

•raylor Diana (Mrs.), farmer, Caddsdown Wolland William, hair dresser, Bridge street

Taylor Henry, First In & Last Out P.H. & mason, Old Town Wrigglesworth Sarah (Mrs.), grocer, Lime Grove house

Taylor John, boot & shoe maker, 36 Old Town Wyatt James & Son, linen & woollen drapers, 17 High stre3t

'fedrake Thomas, printer & publisher of the "Western Yeo Mary E. (Miss), ladies' boarding school, The Wooda

Express" & "Torrington Chronicle," 48 Mill street 1 Yeo Philip T. carrier, 27 Milton place

:SIGBURY is a parish and village, in a healthy situation, window is a memorial to the Rev. James Parker Harris,

.commanding a fine view of the sea, 4 miles south from Mod- chaplain at •Lucknow during the siege in July, 1857, and

bury, 5 north-west from Kingsbridge, 16 south-east from Ply- on the south side of the chancel is a memorial window,

mouth and 9 south from I vybridge station on the South Devon placed in 1882 to Mrs. Frederic Farrer : in the church is a

.o;ection of main line of the Great Western railway, 2 miles large slab, with the brass effigy of a lady, 2 feet4}inches in

from Bigbury bay: it is in the Southern division of the county, height, attired in a long mantle and mitred head-dress, with

hundred and petty sessional division of Ermington and two dogs gambolling at her feet ; the stone is powdered with

Plympton, union and county court district of Kingsbridge, scrolls, bearing alternately the words, "ihu mtr'l!," "bll)1
rural deanery of Woodleigh, archdeaconry of Totnes and hdpt," but some of these, as well as the male effigy and two

.Uiocese of Exeter. The church of St. Lawrence is an ancient shields, are lost ; the remaining shield displays the arms of

structure, chiefly in the Decorated style, consisting of chan- Burton, and there is part of a marginal inscription to Eliza-

cel, nave, north aisle, south porch, mortuary chapel and a beth, wife of William Bigbury, next of Thomas .Arundell,
western tower, with spire, containing 6 bells: there is a and lastly of Robert Burton; there is another slab with a
~late monument, with a quaint inscription, to a mau uud .!jnnilar etfigy, and one shield of Burton, impaling Bigbury,
his wife of the Pierce family, dated 1582: in the east aad a scroll with "Ihu mtt.el!;" other :Jhields and inscription

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. .

BISHOP S NYMPTON. 65

lost: in r872 the church was restored under the direction of of water; rateable value, £3,094; the population, including

Mr. Bedding, architect, and affords 200 sittings. The register the hamlets of ST. ANNE'S CHAPEL, i mile north, and COMBE,

dates from the year 1678. The living is a rectory, average 2 north, was, in r8gx, 365

tithe rent-charge £380, net yearly value £375, including Parish Clerk, John Amm.
nearly roo acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Letters by mounted post from Kingsbridge, via Aveton

Duchess of Cleveland, and held sinc·e 1893 by the Rev. Gifford, arrive at g.o a.m. Aveton Gifford is the nearest
Algernon Barrington Simeon M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. money order & telegraph office
Bigbury Court was the seat for many generations of the WAI.L LETl'ER Box cleared at 4.15 p.m.; WALL LETTER
knightly family of Bigbury; and Hingeston and Houghton. Box, St. Anne's Chapel, cleared 4· ro p.m. week days only
now farm houses, were formerly seats of ancient famiHes of This parish is included in Erme & Avon United School Board
those names. The Duchess of Cleveland, who is owner of District, formed April 29th, r873
the manor, John Wroth esq. and the representatives of the Board School, built in r87r, for 120 children; average
late Mr. J. Alfred Pearse, are the principal landowners. attendance 6o; Harry Truscott, master; Mrs. Truscott,
The soil is light al).d sandy ; subsoil, shale. The chief crops mistress

are corn and roots. The area is 2,902 acres of land and 265 CARRIER 'IO & FROM PLYMOUTH -John Wakeham, sat

Simeon Rev. Algernon Barrington M.A. Cuming Garland, farmer, Cumery Palmer James, farmer, Hingeston

[rector] a Foot Joseph, Royal Oak P.H. & boot ma Steer John & Frederick, wheelwrights

Wroth John, Knowell Hancock John, Hare & Hounds P.H. St. Steer John, shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. Anne's chapel Terry Robert, mason

Amm John, blacksmith & parish clerk Hext Thomas, farmer, Holwell Wakeham James, farmer

J3ardensJsph.Pilchard inn,Borough islnd Hooppell Anna (Mrs. ),frmr. Holwell cot Wakeham John, farmer & carrier

Coker George, farmer, Easton, The HooppellBenjamin,farmr. MountPolly WardHy.John,baker, St.Anne'schapel

Glebe & Hex Down Kerswell William, farmer, Houghton WoodmasonWm.basketma. Duke's mill

Coker John, boot & shoe maker . LeeJames,blacksmith, St.Anne's chapel Wroth John Sparrow, farmer, Combe

Crimp Arundel, farmer, assessor & tax Luckraft Aug. Garland, miller (water), Wroth William Shepherd, farmer,

collector, Tuffiand Duke's ml. &farmer, Challons Combe Court Barton

BISHOP'S NYMPTON is a parish and village, with a about £2o yearly value. A cattle fair is held on Whit Moo-

station 2! miles north-east, called Bishop's Nympton and day and on the Wednesday before 25th October. "White-

Molland, on the Taunton and Barnstaple branch of the Gre:~.t chapple," an old house in the Elizabethan style, formerly

Western railway, and 193 miles from London, about 15 west- belonging to the Basset family, is now occupied as a farm-

north-west from Tiverton and 3 east..south-east from South house. Another farmhouse, called the "Parsonage," was

Molton, in the Northern divisiOn of the county, Witheridge once occupied by the rector of the parish at a time when

hundred, South Molton petty sessional division, union and there were both rector and vicar. Josaph Audrew Keatcs

county court district, rural deanery of South Molton, arch- esq. of Llantysilio Hall, Llangollen, who is lord of themannr,

deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church William Wollaston Karslake Q.C. of 8 Curzon street, London

of St. Mary is an ancieut building of mixed styles, consisting w, and Sir Nicb.olas William George Throckmorton hart.

of ch&ncel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled D.r.., J.P. of Buckland, Faringdon, Berks, are the chief land-

western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 owners. The soil is variable stiff clay; subsoil, skillett,

bells, restored in x883 at a ccst of £roo: on the south slate. 'The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The

side of the tower is a canopied niche containing a figure; area is 9,437 acres; rateable value, £7,378; the population

the east window is stained, and there is a memorial window in 1891 was x,Iso.

to the Rev. Canon Heberden: the font is Norman and Bishop's Mill (or BrsH MrLL) is~~ miles west, on the

has a; square basin placed Qn a circq]ar shaft, with others river Mole, and pas a Congregational chapel: AsH MILL, xj

at the angles:> on the north side of the chancel is an altar miles east: NEWTOWN, I mile, where is a Wesleyan chapel:

tomb, with quatrefoiled sides, but without any figure or and l''ISHER'$ powN, 2~ miles, are hamlets, situated within

inscription, probably erected to Sir Lewis Pollard kt. born the par~h~

about 1465, King's Sergeant in 1507 and subsequently a Par1sh Clerk, James Rodd.

Justice of the Common Pleas; he died in 1540: the church PosT OFFIC:U:.-Edward Bawden, postmaster. Letters are

was entirely restored in r869 at a cost of ,lr,soo, and since received through Soutll Molton at 7·45 a.m.; dispatched

then .£r,ogo has been expended on various improvements, at S-4'0 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office

including, in r88g, a stained window erected to the late is at Sou~h l\'Iolcon. Postal orders are issued here, but not

W. Keates esq. to whose memory a stone pulpit Wa.\1 also paid

placed in the church a~ the same time by his tenants and WALL LETTER B~x, Bish Mill, cleared at 5·55 p.m. week

friends at a cost of £8o.: there a.re 350 sittings. The register days only , ••

dates from the year I556. The living il'l a vicarage, tithe SCHOOLS:..-

rent-charge commutation £379• average £288, net yearly A School Board of.;; members was formed October 30, 1874;

value £,227, with residence and a acres of glebe, in the gift Russell Louis Riccard, South Molton, clerk to the board;

of tbe Bishop of Exeter, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Ed- Henry Ayre, Wflbbery moor, attendance officer

ward Augustus Lester H.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The :Board \mixed), erected in 1878, for no children; average

great tithes, value £421:, are held by the Ecclesiastical Corn- attendance, 86; Henry Rendell, master

missioners. The vicarage house 'was built at the cost ot a Board, NeWtown (mixed), erected in 1876, for 70 children ;

former vicar in 1838. !Iere is a Wesleya.n chapel, and one a:veragj'l attendance, 37; mistress
for Bible Christians, built in x8g2. There are charities of CARRIER.-Geor~ Lock to Barnstaple, when required

Bishop's Nympton. Chanter Hugh, builder & mason *HullandEdwn.farmr.HigherGorton hi

[Names marked thus*receive thei~:lettera Cockram Francis,Iarmer, Hole park *HullandJames,farmer,WestJohnstone

direct from South 1<[olton.] Cockram William, farmer, Hall *Hulland Saml.farmer,LowerGorton hl

Ayre William, West Welland Cole William, farmer & miller <water)~ JQtsum Joseph,farmer,EastAvercombe

*Bryan Richard Stawell, Grilston cott Garlaford mill Rerslake Thomas, blacksmith, Ash mill
Lak~ Charles, farmer, Limeslake
Hancock Charles, Court green Crang Richard1 farmer, Drewstone
*Hitchcok Miss, Park house Crispin John, farmer & builder, Reach Lee John, baker

Lester Rev.Edwd.AugustusM..A.. Vicarge Crook Charles, blacksmith Lock George, carrier

*Oliver Richard, East Johnstone Davey Albert Edwd. farmer, Eastwood Loosemore John, farmer, Fisher down

COl!IMERCIAL. Dyer Thomas, farmer, East port Manning Henry, farmer, Higher Week

Ayre George, farmer, East Welland Dymond James, farmer, Garliford Mildon William, farmer, North Hayne

Ayre Henry, farmer, assistan,t overseer Elworthy John, fJ.rmer, Morq.aoott Morrish Thomas, Masons' Arms P.H

& assessor &school attendance Officer, Elworthy Richard, Black Cock hotel & Northam William, farmer, Little Hele

Webbery moor posting house, Station *Oliver Richard, farmer,Ea.st Johnstone

Ayre John, farmer, Pillavin Fairchild John, wheelwright Packer Edmund, farmer, Lower Rad1ey

Ayre 'Robert, farmer, Muckford Frayne Peter, farmer,. Bridge Passmore Edmnnd, farmer, Grilston

Ayre William, farmer, West Welland Gardnel' James, thatcher Passmore Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Aller

Bawden Edward, tailor & postmaster GermanChas. ironmonger & blacksmith Passmore Phillip, boot maker

Bawden John, baker & shopkeeper Germa:n Thomas, farmer, Middle port Passmore Robert, farmer, West Radley

Bawden William, mason Gough John, farmer, Bridge Hayne Peagam Charles, carpenter

*Bennett Joseph, farmer, Windwhistle Grimshire John, farmer, Park Pearce Daniel, farmer, Kipscote

Boundy Amos, tailor, draper & grocer Hall George, farmer, West bridge Perryman James, farmer, Cotts

Bragg Joseph, farmer, Combesland Hancock George, farmer, Rawstone!rm Reed Nancy Stoneman (Mrs.), farmer

Bragg Wm. butcher & farmer, Capitol Hepper l:lenry, poultry dealer Whitechapple

Buckingham William, farmer, Birwell Hill Edward, farmer, East Week Rew John, farmer,Sheepwash

Chanter Henry, baker & s!lop~eeper Hill James, farmer, Crosse Rodd Frederick, shoe maker

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Rodd John, shoe maker Venner Jacob, farmer, Slough, Kerscott Wabber Robert, farmer, Westwood

Rudd George, farmer, Parsonage & Hill town Webber William, farmer, Eas't Radley

*Sanders E<!mund Augustin, miller Verney Jn. Yeo, farmer, Gt.Avercombe Wilkins Mary Jane (Mrs.), Red Lion

(wllter), Lower Mole mills Vernon William, tailor P.H. & farmer

Shapcott Matthew, corn merchant &c VeyseyGrace(Mrs.),farmr.MiddleWeek

Shapland Geo. farmer, Lower Webbery Vicary James, farmer, Bullaford :BishMill.

Thorne John, farmer, Bicknor Waldron John, wheelwright

Tidball Harriet L. (Mrs.), grocer Warren William, farmer, South Hayne *Cockram Albert Edward, shopkeeper

Tidball Michael, farmer, Yeo Way Robert, farmer, Waterhouse & beer retailer

Toms John, butcher Webber Charles, gamekeeper to J. A. *Cole William, wheelwright
Treble William, farmer, Knowle j *Redler Thos.Jn.millr. (water),& steam
Keates esq. West mill

Uphamlt'k.miller(water),Avercombe ml Webber Elizabeth (Mrs.),farmr. Veraby *Wood George~ blacksmith

:BISHOP'S TAWTON is a pa.rish and village, on the J.P. who is lord of the manor, and Charles Chichester esq.

east bank of the river Taw, 2 miles south-by-east from J.P. are chief landowners. The soil is light; subsoil, gravel and

Barnstaple, in the North Western division of the county, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips &c. ;

South Molton hundred, Braunton petty sessional division, there is beautiful grazing land. The acreage is 4,263; rate-

Barnstaple union and county court district, rural deanery able value, J.:5,970; 'the population in 1891 was 781. New-

and archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter, The port, formerly in this parish, has been transferred tQ that of

church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone, itt the Harnsta.ple.

Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, Sexton, William Webb.

nave, north aisle, south porch and a tower on the north side PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Mary Dunning, postmistress. Letters

with pinnacles and spire, containing a clock and 6 bells, dating received from Barnstaple at 7. 30 a. m. ; dispatched at 6

from r8o3 to r852: there are memorial windows to several pm. Barnstaple is the nearest telegraph office & Newport

members of the Chichester family and to the Rev. John the nearest money order office. Postal orders are issued

Durand Baker, vicar from 1837: the church was restored here, but not paid

in 1866, and has 350 sittings. The register dates from the ScHOOLS : ·
year rsss. The living is a vicarage. average tithe rent-charge A School Board of 5 members was formed February I4th,

[,360, net yearly value £391, including 26 acres of glebe, 1885; A. Edwards, Hill view, Barnstaple, clerk to the

·with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and held board

since 1893 by the Rev. George Clench Bellewes of London Board (mixed), Herner, built in 1874, for 8o children, aver-

University. The charities amount to J.: to. Hall, the seat age attendance, 39 ; Henry Robinson, master; Mrs. Robin-

of Charles Chichest-er e<Jq. D. L., J.P. is a mtt.gnificeut residence, son, mistress

beautifully situated on an eminence and commanding a fine National (mixed), built in 1841, for 120 children; average

view of the valley of the Taw. The Duke of Bedford D.L., attendance, 65; Rt. Pearce, master; Miss Ann Duffy, mist

PRIVATE RESIDENTs. Beer John, carpenter Pile James, shopkeeper, New bridge

Adams SheldonBurrows,Chestwood hill Buckingham William, farmer, Shilstone Pugsley Francis, carpenter

Babbage Mrs. Mary, Coddon Cha.llacombe Henry, farmer, Hill farm Rudall William Martirr, shopkeeper

Bellewes Rev. Cecil Tait :B.A. [curate], Crang William, stone mason Sampson John, coal dealer

Vicarage Crocker Thomas, farmer, Cross farm Sanders Robert Bryant, farmer, White-

Bellewes Rev. George Clench, Vicarage Darch Richard, farmer, Upcott moor farm

.Boyles Capt. Henry, Mount Sandford Darch William, miller (water) & corn Scott Henry, miller (water), Tawton

Buchanan Mrs. Downrew hill dealer, Whitemoor mill mills

.Chichester Charles D.L., J .P. Hall Darch William Henry, farmer, Upcott Scott Johti, farmer & lime burner

DavieCapt.George ChristopherF.R.G.s., Dunn Samuel, fanner, Venn house Scott William, farmer, Dowurew

J.P. The Elms DyerJohn,jun.farmer&butchr.Ramally Sexton Thomas, market gardenm:

Dove-, Westacott villas Dyer John, sen. cattle dealer Smaldou Robert, shopkeeper

Hollands Richard, Little Pill Featherstone John, carpenter Smith John William, farmer, Little Pill

Impey Mrs. Westacott cottages FloranceRd.Vincent,ChichesterArmsP.H Thomas Geo. Hy. smith & machinist

Riccard Miss Gaydon Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Coddon Tucker William, farmer & farm bailiff

Sanders Miss, Town tenement Hookway John, farmer, Heaton to Charles Chichester esq. D.L., l.P.

Shuter Mrs. Westacott cottages Houle Thos. farmer, Wellesley Barton Halmston Barton

Snow George, Little Fisherton Joslin Francis,farmer, Great Woolstone Tyte Henry, Three Pigeons inn

Tamlyn John, Rose Hill villa Nicholls Mervyn,farmer,WestDownrew Vodden George, shoe maker

Tatham Frank Beard NottAnn (Mrs. )Jodging ho.New bridge Waldron William, farmer, Court farm

COMMERCIAL. Packer Richd.Geo.farmer,Overton frm Yeo William, farmer, Bird's marsh

Baker John, farmer, Yeo town

:BISHOP'S TEIGNTON is a. large villagt' and parish of £1o yearly, left by the late Mrs. Rhodes. In the parish

on the southern slope of a hill on the north side of the Teign are some remains of the palace erected by John de Grandison.

valley and commanding extensive views of theriverTeign, 2 bishop of Exeter. 1328-70. Lindridge, the seat in the l7th

miles west from Teignmouth, where the nearest rail way sta- century and later of the Lear family, is now the property

tion is, 4 east-north-east from Newton Abbot, I south from and residence of Captain John George Edmund Templer:

Exeter,in the Mid division of thecounty,Exminster hundred, the house is a handsome edifice of stone, standing in a park

'Teignbridge petty sessional division, Newton Abbot union of l45 acres, approached from Chudleigh by a fine double

and highway district, Newton Abbot and Torquay county avenua of lofty elms and from Newton by a beautiful and

-court district, rural deanery of Kenn and archdeaaonry and finely varied drive through a romantic wood of a mile in

diocese of Exeter. The church of St. John the Baptist is a extent. The Rev. George Thomas Comyns M.A. vicar of

building of stone in the Norman and l'erpendicular styles, Sidbury, who is lord of the manor, and Captain John George

consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, north aisle and an Edmund Templer (late Highland Light Infantry) are the

embattled tower at the west end of north aisle, with 8 chief landowners. The soil is chiefly limestone ; the subsoil

<:rocketed pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells : the is gravel and clay. The chief CT'OJ.>S are wheat., barley and

western doorway is a fine example of Normau work: there oats. The area is 4,2o6 acres of land ; rateable value,

are eleven stained windows, and monuments to Sir Peter £9,026; the population in 1891 was x,o85.

Lear bart. ob. 1682, and Sir Thomas Lear hart. ob. Dec. Luton is a hamlet, about 2i miles north-north-east. St.

1705, and to William Martyn, of Lendridge, ob. 1640, as well John the Evangelist's chapel is an edifice of stone, erected
as several tablets : on the outside of the south wall are in 1865, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a
fi~ures, supposed to represent the " Adoration of the Magi." western turret containing one bell: the east windows are
stained, and there are 100 sittings: th~ entrance to the
The register dates from the yeal' l54o. The living is a churchyard is through a lych gate. The living is a vicarage,
vicarage, aveTage tithe rent-charge 1~168, net yearly value
[,166, including 8 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift average tithe rent-charge [,2o, net yearly value (;90. in tve

of the Rev. Pelham R. Ogle, and held since 1886 by the Rev. gift Qf and held since 1886 by the vicar of Bishops 'reignton.
Lord Clifford of C~udleigh. is lord of the manor.
Arthur Joseph Saville Ogle :B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford,
co.IBB hamlet is about It miles east-north-east and AsH-
who is also vicar of Luton. There is a Wesleyancbapelhere, WELL hamlet I mile north-west.

and a Baptist chapel at Radway, with sittings for 150 per- Sexton, William Skinner.
son~. 'fhe hydropathic establishment of Mr.C. F. Carpenter Sexton (Luton), Charles Howard.
is pleasantly situated at the foot of Haldon hill and is well

suited for invalids; services are held on Sundays in the hall

at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Coleman's charity,left in 1719 for the PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

free education of 20 poor children, now produces [,52 John Pook, sub-postma3ter. Letters through Teignmouth

yearly. Broad Meadow charity, producing J.:10 yearly, is arrive at 7.20 a.tn. & 12.20 & 5.30 p.m.; dispatched at

given to such poor as are not in receipt of parish relief. 10.30 a.m. & 2.35 & 7.15 p.m.; sunday, 9.2o a.m.

There are almsbouses for sel"en inmates, with an endowment Letters for Luton go through Chudleigh, which i:~ the

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BLACKAWTON. 67

nearest money oruer offic~ to that place; arrivals & average attendance, 132; Clifford B. Wallis, master;
deliveries the same as Ideford, which is the nearest post
office Mrs. E. A. Wallis, m:stress; Miss Phillips, infants' mist
National, Lnton (mixed), built, with residence for the
:ScHooLs:-
National (mixed), originally built about 1730, out of the mistress, in 1856 & enlarged in 1878, for 48 children;
funds of Coleman's charity, from which it is endowed
with £52 yearly, for the education of 2opoor children; it average attendance, 36; Mrs. Zana Dean, mistress
was rebuilt in :r85o & enhtrged in 1876 for 140 children; CoNVEYA.NCE.~Omnibus leaves John Meek's.for Teignmouth

railway station, daily, sundays excepted, at 9.50 a.m. & 3
& 7 p.m.; returning at 12, 3, 5 & 8.45 p.m

Bishop's Teignton. Carpenter Chas. Fredk. hydropathic Pook Frederick William, builder, con-

PRlYATE RESIDENTS. establishment, Huntly. See advert tractor & undertalter

.Avery Mrs. Ware Barton Coombe Daniel, baker Quantick Henry, coal dealer
I~urow William, Hollow mead Croot "'illiam, thatcher, Radway
Scagell Louis, head gardener to Major

llergman John, Higher green Discombe WiJliam, farmer, Wolfsgrove M. L. Brown

:Broughton Robert David, Vincent lodge Dymond John, farmer, Higher Humber Scagell Richard, blacksmith

Brown MajorMichaelLewis ;r.P. Keittos Fey & Son, carpenters & builders Soper James, farmer, Lower Radway

-carpenter Charles_Frederick, Huntly Govier Ellen &Lilly (Misses),dress mas Soper John, farmer, Ash hill

Cole Miss Hall Andrew, farmer Stamp George (Mr&), nursery

.De Brett Miss, Clanage house Hallett Waiter, farmer, Cockhaven Taylor Thomas, mason, Radway

Dickinson Mrs. Garden reach Hamlyn James, farmer, Venn Teig-nmouth Local Board Gas Works

-Guerin Col. Edmund Arthur,Delamore Harris John Stephens, assist. overseer (Willlam Henry Portbury, manager)

Harris Misses, Cross house Harris Richard, baker Truman George, mason

Harvey Edward Leigh, Cross cottage Helyer Ann (Miss), dress maker Weeks Benjamin, shoe maker

J:saac Thomas Sebastian, 'rapley Hill Christopher, grocer Whidborne John, farmer, Shute

Keyworth Col. Waiter, The Green Hill George, coal dealer & carter WuttonJames,bailiff to the Rev.George

1\'Iackworth Miss, Delamore Hill William, Manor inn Thomas Comyns M.A. Wood

~Mu..rgeridge Thos.Shepperd, Myrtle cot Honeywill Alfred John, butcher YeomanJn.market gardener,F}ow point

o()gle Rev. Arthur Joseph Saville B.A. Honeywill Susan Grace (Miss), grocer Luton.

Vicarage Jackman Albert, tailor [Letters received through Chadleigh.]
l'arsons William, Buddaford Jones Thomas, beer retailer Vooght Mrs
l~obin John Lake George Henry Glanvi11e, farmer, Cornish George, farmer, HiQ:her Rixtail
Stockman John, Sea view
Templer Capt. John George Edmund, Radway & Combe ~
Ltimacrart John, carpenter
Ellis Elizabeth (Miss), huckster

Lindridge Ledger Elizabeth (1\lrs.), laundress Reddaway William, beer retailer

"Templer Mrs. John, Lindridge Maddicott George,frmr.Home Humber Vooght James, farmer, Marsden &
Hamblecombe
Underhill Mrs. Westeria cottage Major John, blacksmith
Young Mrs. Teign lawn Meek John, omnibus proprietor Vooght John (Mrs.), farmer & miller
North James, shoe maker (water), Hayes & Lower Rixtail
.. Palk William, butcher
COMMERCIAL. Vooght William, farmer, Higher Rixtail

.Berry RichardTowill,carpenter,Radway Parsons Joshua, farmer, Buddaford • Coombe.

Bishop's Teignton Social Club (Charles Perkins William, beer retailer & shop- Dunning J. Frederick [missionary to
seamenJ
:Frederick Carpenter, proprietor) keeper, Radway

Doone William, Commercial inn Pook John, sub-postmaster Paddon William Elliott, farmer

.BITTADON is a parish on the high road from Barnstaple 1691, but the name is indistinct. The register dates from
to llfracombe, 6! mile3 from the former and 5! from the the year 171~. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-

latter, in the North Western dhis10n of the county, hundred charge £57, net yearly income £64, with residence and 'Z5

.and petty sessional division of Braunton, union and county acres of glebe, in the gif.t of Miss Arundel Yeo, and held

.court district of Barnstaple, rural deanery and archdeaconry since 1892 by the Rev. Ebenezer Braund. Miss Arundell

.of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Peter Yeo, of :Fremington, is lady of the manor and chief land-

is a small and ancient edifice of stone in the Early English owner. The soil is. light loam; subsoil, mica slate. The

.style, covered with ivy, and consisting of chancel, nave, chief crops are pasture, oats and barley. The area is I 1o18
.:South transept, vestry, south porch and a small western acres; rateable value, £Boo; population in 1891 was 46.

tower containing one bell : there is an ancient stone font in Sexton, vacant.

.good condition : the church was restored in 1883 and re- Letters through Barnstaple arrive at 10 a.m. Ilfracombe
seated with open benches; and new windows were inserted
throughout in 1887 : in the chancel is a memorial to Arthur is the nearest money order & telegraph office. WALL
Ackland esq. ob. 1675, and another in the transept to Henry LETTER Box, Half Way House, cleared at 4.15 p.m. week
Chichester, ob. x661, and Rester, his wife, ob. x622: there days only.

iis also an ancient marble monument in the nave, dated The children of this place attend the school at West Down

.Braund Rev. Ebenezer, Rectory I Buckingham William Albert, farmer, Bittadon house

BLACKA WTON is a parish and village, 6! miles west of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1891 by

from Kingswear station on the Dartmouth branch of the the Rev. George Har.tridge Clements T.A.K.C.L. 'fhere is a

Great Western railway, 9 south from Totnes and 6 west Wesleyan chapel. The charities amountto£5 4s. yearly and
from Dartmouth, in the Southern division of the county, are distributed in bread. After the dissolution of the monas-

Coleridge hundred, Stanborough and Coleridge petty ses- teries, Torr Abbey and a large portion of the abbey property

.sional division, Kingsbridge union and county court district, passed to the Ridgways, of Torrwood, Torqoay. From an

rural deanery of Woodleigh, archdeaconry of Totnes and unpublished manuscript preserved at Sheplegh Court, it

diocese of Exeter. The river Garrah flows through the appears that in A. D. 835 King Echberht's great battle against
parish to Slapton Ley, a fresh water lake, separated from the West Wealas was fuuglit at Hingeston, in the north-west
•he sea by a sand bank, through which the water percolates of the parish, south of Stanborough camp and barrows, and
into Start Bay, on the south-eastern boundary of the parish. not as generally supposed, at Hingeston Down in Cornwall.
The church of St. Michaelis a building of stone, in the Per- The name of Blackawton itself is derived from this very

pendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south camp, whose Saxon name of Stanborougb, or stone barrow,

porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells, 5 was preceded doubtless by the British name of " Blaighe-

Qf which were cast in 1782 : the chancel retains piscina and dun," the hill fort. 'l'here are three manors in this parish.-
sedilia and in the aisle there is a fine brass toNicholas Forde, Blackawton, Dallacombe Pruston and Treverbyn. Mrs. Toll
()f Forde, ob. 1582, and Margaret (Fountain?) his wife: a is lady of the manors of Treverbyn and Blackawton ; Henry
.carved oak screen also remains, in a fair state of preserva- Chaytor esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor o[ Dallacombe
tion; and there is a Norman font: on some of the capitals Pruston, William S. Dimes esq. and Mr. Lewis Netherton
of the pillars are sculptured the arms of Torr Abbey, which are the chief landowners on the north side of the parish;
possessed large estates in the parish, and the adjoining and Mrs. Toll, Rt. Hon. Charles Seale-Hayne P.C., H.P.., D.L.,
estate of Abbotsleigh in Halwell parish: the church, with ;J.P. of Kingswear Castle, in the Strete district. The eoil is
the exception of the chancel, was restored in x887, when it generally a rich loam; the subsoil is clay slate, and the best
was new-roofed, re-floored and re-seated, at a cost of £100: land is in the dunstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley
in 1893 the chancel was restored, a new vestry and south and oats. The area is 6,276A. oR. 2oP. of land and 6o acres
porch added and beating apparatus fixed throughout, at a of water; rateable value, including Strete, £7,303; the
cost of about£125: there are 4oosittings. The register dates population in 1891 was 588.
from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, average tithe Sexton, George Ferris.

rent-charge !;1~, gross yearly value £44, including 91 acres STRETE, a hamlet in this civil parish, was formed into an

DEY. & CORY. 5"

68 BLACKAWTON. DEVONSHIRE.

ecclesiastical parish in 1881 and will be found under a. separ- WAr,L LETTER Box, Cotterbury, cleared at 5.40 p.m. week

ate heading. days only

PosT OFFICE (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have d
R.S.O. Devon added).-Robert L. Life, sub-postmaster. A School Boar of 5 members was formed July 31, 1874;;

Letters arrft'e at 6 a. m.; ndeealirveesrtymcoonmeymoerndceers&atte7leag.rmap.h; Henry Square, Dartmouth, clerk to the board; James L.
dispatched at 7 p.m. The Life, Blackawton, attendance officer

office is at Dartmouth. Postal orders are issued here, Board School (mixed), established 1874, for ISO children;..

but nqt paid · average attendance, no ; Arthur Beaven, master

(Marked thus • receive letters through Ferris Charles, farm bailiff to Mr. N'. PrettyjohnWm.farmer,Pastur& mounts

Dartmouth,] P. Oldreive, Westdown Prout John, blacksmith, Cotterbury

Bond Mrs. Myrtle cottage Ferris George, horse breaker Prout Robert, wheelwright, Cotterbury:

Clements Rev. George Hartridge Ferris George Fox, farmer Pyne William, mason

T.A.K.c. L. Vicarag-e .l"oale Alma (Mrs.), butcher & farmP.r Rowe Thomas, farmer, Shearstone

Dimes William S. Oldstone Foale JohnFrederick, butcher & farmer, Sercombe John B. farmer, East Hartley
Heath Samuel J
Rakehills farm Hhillabeer William, Commercial inn

Foxworthy William, mason Stabb Thomas, baker & grocer

COMMERCIAL. Geatches William Anstey, farmer, SteerEdmd.farmr.Higher Hutcherleigi-.

Baker John, miller (water), Washwalk Lower Hutcherleigh Steer Philip, farmer, Forde

Baker William R. farmer, Eastdown Hannaford Richd. Wm.farmer,Pruston StrangerWilliamMartin,Dartmouth inn

Bastard Walter Lambel, wheelwright Harvey Richard,Sportsman'sArms p .H. Thorning John, farmer, Little Wadstray

BeavenArthur,schoolmaster &registrar & builder, Hemboro' Post Thorning Brothers, farmers, Wood

of births & deaths for Blackawton Heath William, farmer, Dreyton Tippett Jn. blacksmith, Sheplegh Bow

sub-district Lewis John, Forces inn Treby Edmund, farmer, Washwalk

Bond Antbony Horatio, farmer, Sea- l.ifeRt.Langworth,grcr.& bakr.Post off Tucker Festus M. farmer, Burlestone

wardstein *Lowe Amy (Miss), farmer, Padlake Tucker Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Bond Cb,arles Albert, butcher, Cross Luscombe Jn. Herbert, farmer,Bowden TuckerMaryAnn(Mrs.),frmr.Millcomoo

Bowden Frederick, farmer, Cotterbory Lyndon Thomas, shopkeeper Tucker Robert, farmer, Coombe

Buckpitt William Thomas, farmer, Menhennett Frederick H. carpenter Tucker Wm. P.miller(water),Ford mill

Lower Wadstray MichelmoreJefferyJn.frmr.Cotterbury Underhay Wm. farmer, Abbotsleigh

Coaker William, farmer, Sweetstone *Oldreive Edmund Browne, farmer, Wallis Lewis J. L. farmer, East Down

Cole Susannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Greenswood West George, carpenter, Stray park

ColesNichls.frmr.&cattledlr.EastDown OldrP.ive William E.farmer,Grimpstone West Hobert W. T. George inn; &.

Edmonds William Henry, farmer, Pack Bros. thrashing machine owners carpenter & builder

Higher Wadstray Parnell George, farmer, Dinnacombe Westlake Thomas, farmer, Cheat

Elliott Thomas F.blacksmith,Blackwell Pedrick Blanch (Mrs.), farmer, Stone Weston John, farmer, West Hartley

Ellis Charles Henry, machinist Perring Robert, farmer, Woodford Wills John, mason
Ellis John, farmer, Larcombe
Petherbridge Robert P. farmer, Middle Woodley Samuel, farmer, Seccombe

Ellis Nathaniel Jn. farmer, Abbotsleigh Hutcherleigh

BLACKBOROUGH is a chapelry, about 5 miles north- by the Rev. Arthur Paul Britton M.A. of Queens' Col-

east from Cullompton station on the Bristol and Exeter lege, Cambridge. Blackborough House, now the resi-

section of the main line of the Great Weste rdnivriasiilowna•ovf and dence of the rector, is an elegant building in the Italian
10 east from Tiverton, i n the North Eastern the style, built by the late Earl of Egremont, who occasionally

county, Hayridge hundred, Cullompton petty sessional resided in it : it is beautifully situated amidst the Black-

division, Tiverton union and county court district, rural down hills, which are remarkable for the salubrity of the

deanery of East Tiverton and archdeaconry and diocese of air and magnificent scenery. William Wyndham esq. D.L.,

Exeter. The church of All Saints, and standing on high J.P. of Dinton House, Salisbury, is lord of the manor and

ground forms a very striking object for miles round, was principal landowner. The soil is sandy; subsoil, sandy.

rebuilt in 1838, at the sole expense of George Francis, 4th The chief crops are oats, wheat and barley. Acreage, rate-

and last Earl of Egremont, is a building of stone, in the able value and population are included with Kentisbeare.

Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave and a western Sexton, Francis Radford.

tower, with spire, containing one bell, hung in 1883 at a PosT 0FFICE.-Charles Radford, sub-postmaster. Letters
·from Culiompton arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5
cost of £so: there are sittings for 270 persons. Previous p.m. The nearest money order office is at Kentisbeare &.
telegraph office at Uffculme
to the rebuilding of the church the registers were kept with
those of ~entisbeare, which date from ;x6gr. The living is

a rectory, tithe rent-charge commuted at £8o, average
£6o, net yearly value £w8, including 77 acres of glebe, School (mixed), for 6o children; average attendance, 39;

in the g1ft of William Wyndham esq. and held since 1879 Mrs. Clara :Martirtdale1 mistress

Britton Rev. Arthur Pauhr.A. [rector], Cape Mary .Ann (Mrs.), farmer Radford Charles, scythe stone maker~

Blackborough house Evans John, farmer, Allecombe farm Post office

Dennis Miss, Blackborough house Leman James, Paunchindown inn, & Rookley Daniel, scythe stone maker

Dennis Mrs. Blackborough house . shopkeeper White Samuel, farmer, Allhallows

Radford John, Providence cottage

BLACK TORRINGTON is a village and parish, of Trinity College, Dublin. There is a Bible Christian chapei

bounded on the north by the river Torridge, 4i miles north- here, erected in ~843, enlarged in 1865 : it was restored in
east from Halwill and Seaworthy station on the Okehamp- r885 at a cost o( £J6o, and will seat 200 people; another is
ton and Holsworthy branch of the London and South now (1893) in course of erection at West Chilla. Speccott's
Western railway, and 6 west-by-north from Hatherleigh, charity consists of a small estate in the parish, five-ninths
in the Western division of the county, hundred of Black of the rents of which are given to the poor of Holsworthy
'rorrington, petty sessional division, union and county court and four-ninths to the poor of this parish. The church
district of Holswortby, rural deanery of Holswortby, arch- lands bring in about £4o yearly. At Kingsmoor, in this
deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of parish, is a racecourse, where steeplechases were formerly

St. Mary is an edifice of stone, in the Late Perpendicular style held every year, in July. The old mansion was ruinous in

of the 16th and Early 17th centuries, consisting of chancel, 1822. CoHAM, since 1547 the property of the ancient family of

nave, south aisle and a fine embattled western tower with pin- Cobam, is now the property of J. Blyth Coham-Flemingesq.;
nacle!!, containing a clock, which chimes the qu~trters, and 6 it was rebuilt by W. H. B. Coham esq. and is encompassed

bells, cast in I772, the weight of the tenor being I I cwt.; the by fertile pastures and l'ich woodland. l3eara Court, about

4th and 6th were re-cast by Mears, of London, in r826, and a mile from the church, the property and residence of Lucius

the rest by John Pennington and Co. in 1772: there is a Hurlock Reichel esq. is an ancient Elizabethan building, in

memorial window in the chan«el to the Coham family, and part recently rebuilt of gramte, surrounded by oak trees

another, dated 18751 in the south aisle, to Mrs. Coham; a and fine yews and commanding extensive views of the
stained window in the tower was erected by the Rev. John country. Braundsworthy, formerly the property of Mr.

Pt:nleaze, late rector, to whose memory another was placed George Braund, now belongs to Mr. Marshall Eyles. Whit-
by the parishioners in 188o: there is a mur!l.l monument of leigh, partly in this parish and partly in that of Halwill,

stone to John Parsons, of Beara, in this parish, ob. 1675: belonged to the Woollcombes, of Ashbury, but now to W.

the pulpit is of oak, with a sounding board, and there is an J. Harris esq. J.P. Lane End Forda, West Chilla and East
old font and s1ttings for soo. The register dates from the and West Graddon, are the property of David Clarke esq.
year 1604. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- J.P. of Macclesfield; Addlehole and Ley, of George Leach
charge £352, gross yearly value £450, net £319, including esq. A court leet and court baron are held yearly. The
191 acres of glebe, with residence, in tbe gift of and held manor formerly belonged to the Zouch family, from whom
Einc3 1883 by the Hev. John Samuel Jephson Gardiner 1\f.A, it passed to various familia~, who all resided at Totley.

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. NORTH BOVEY. 69

David Clarke esq. .J.P. of Park House, Macclesfield, Cheshire, PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Offiae.~

who is lord of the manor, John Blyth Coham-Fleming esq. Frederick Chapman, postmaster. Letters received irom

iP.L., l.P. the rector, William James Harris esq. l.P. of Highampton R.S.O. 7 a.m. ; dispat<'hed at 5.Io p.m.

Halwill Manor, Luciug Hurlock Reichel esq. Edwin and There is no sunday post. The nearest telegraph offices

.James Risdon and James Sparke, are the principalland- are at Hatherleigh & Halwill railway st3tion

·owners. The soil is clay ; subsoil, stone. The chief crops
·are wheat, oats and roots. The area is 7,200 acres; rate- Def'on Constabulary, Thomas Crooke, constable
.able valae, £2,214; the population in 1891 was 619. National School (mixed), built in I875, for I07 children;

EAST and WEST CHILLA are hamlets. average attendance, 65; Robert Edward Mills, master;

Parish Clerk, William Letheren. Miss Laura Chapell, infants' mistress

Abel Mrs. Brook bank Chubb William Richd. farmer, Fraunch Knight James, farmer, Hall

tCoham-FlemingJn.BlythD.L.,J.P.Coham Clarke William, farmer, West Chilla. Lamble William, farmer, King's moor

Furse John, Sparkville Dart Lewis John, grocer & draper Letheren William, farmer, Wick park

Gardiner Rev. John Samuel Jephson Dart Richard, farmer, Addle hole Lewis Isaac, farmer & carter

M •.A... Rectory Denford George, shoe maker & temper- Littlejohns Maria. (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Gilbert M1ss ance hotel Luxton James, farmer, Westlake,Chilla

Horn Emmanuel, Brook cottage Down Albert, blacksmith, East Chills Luxton Rd. frmr.&ca.ttle dlr.East Chills

Horn James, Upcott Down Ellen (Mrs.), dress maker May Samuel, shoe maker

LanewrightGeo.Braundsworthy cottage Down Johanna (Mrs.), shopkeeper, East MaynardClaraHeale(Miss),farmer,Hoop

Reichel Lucius Hurlock, Beara court Chilla Mills John, mixed school, East Chilla

Sparke James, Sparkville Down William, blacksmith, Long cross Moore William Petherick, cowkeeper,

Sparke Miss, Smithsland villa E:yles Marshall,yeoman,Braundsworthy North True cottage

~pencer Edward Macready, The Larches Hill Stephen, cowkeeper, West Chilla Petherick Samuel, farmer, Whiteley

Tucker The Misses, Sparkville Hockin Henry Gilbert, Union comme!'- Reading Room (ArscottJohn Isaac, sec.)

COMMERCIAL. cial hotel, & farmer Reichel Lucius Hurlock, architect.

Andrew William, farmer, Burrow Hopper Alfred John, cabinet maker Beara court

Atherley John, farmer, Lower Graddon Hooper Samuel, farmer, East Chilla Risdon Edwin & James, yeomen, Hayne

:Bailey John Sanders, tailor & draper Horn Charlotte (Mrs.), earthenware dlr & Bucksley

Balsdon Jamea, farmer, Cleathorn Horn James, tailor, Long cross Sanders Robert Freeman, farrier

Beal Henry, farmer, Bridge farm Hutchings Arthur William, deputy Smale Carrie (Mrs.), dress maker

~ailey William, cowkeeper registrar of births & deaths for Black Sparke William, yeoman, Smithslands

Baily Richard, farmer, High Week Torrington sub-district, West Chilla Spencer Edward Macready M.D. Toronto

llalsdon Jane (Mrs.) & Sons, farmers, Hutchings Fanny C. (Mrs.), registrar L.R.c. P. & s. Edin. surgeon & medical

North True of births & deaths for Black Torring- officer & public vaccinator, Black

Balsdon Richard, farmer, South True ton sub-district, West Chilla Torrington district, Holsworthy union

Blight Geo. Odam, farmer, Northcott Hutchings Samuel, farmer, West Chilla Tattersill & Snow, grocers & drapers

Born Aubery John, carpenter Isaac Arscott John, farmer, Kneela (branch)

CellersSamuel, farmer, Lower Whiteley Isaac William Spear, butcher & farmer Vanstone James Edwari, agricultural

Chapman Edgar, stone mason Jenn Alfred, miller (water) & corn engineer, machinist, steam thrashing

Chapman Frederick, stone mason dealer, Town mill machine proprietor

Chapman Lydia (Miss), dress maker Jenn Chas.Abel,apartments,Kingsleyho Vanstone Stephen, wheelwright

Chapman Joseph, brewer, & maltster & Jury John Rigsby Horn, carpenter Ward Henry, stone mason

agent for Daviri Clarke esq. lord of Kelly & Letheren, saddlers & harness Wonnacott John, farmer, .East Graddon

of the manor, Woodhill brewery makers & farmers Yelland William, yeoman, East Chilla

Chapman Susannah (Mrs.), dress maker Kelly Rose (Mrs.), dress maker

.BONDLEIGH is a parish and village on the RiyerTaw, College, Oxford. The Plymouth Brethren have a small

~ miles north from North Tawton station on the main line chapel here. There is a small charity derived from the

.of the London and South Western railway, 8 east from interest on £15, left by James Raymont in I857· The

Hatherleigh, in the Northern division of the county, North manor belongs to William Wyndham esq. R.A., D.L., J.P. of

"Tawton hundred, South Molton petty sessional division, Dinton House, near Salisbury, by inheritance from the
Okehampton onion and county court district, rural deanery Countess of Egremont, and the Rectory manor is owned by
.of Chulmleigh, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of William Kelland, of Exeter. The principal landowners are

Exeter. The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the lord of the manor, John Quicke esq. D.L., J.P. of New-
lthe Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave of three b<~oys, ton St. Cyres, Lord Alington M.A., D.L., J.P. and the Rev.

north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, A. W. Owen M.A. of Eggesford. The soil is dun land ; the

with pinnacles.. containing 4 bells, of which the first is dated subsoil is chiefly clay and rock. The chief crops are wheat,
J:653; the second and third are both inscribed in Old barley and oats. The area is I,628 acres; rateable value,

English characters, "Est michi collatum hie nomen £1,28o; the population in 1891 was 141.
:amatum ; '' the tenor weighs 14 cwt.: on the north side of Sexton, John Bolt.
.the chancel is the recumbent effigy of a priest, fully vested:
Letters through North Tawton R.S.O. which is the nearest

.fixed to the porch is a sun-dial dated qo6: there are ISO money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a.m
.sittings. The church was restored about 1890. The register WALL LETTER Box, Bondleigh Bridge, cleared at 9 a.m. &
.of baptisms and marriages dates from ~he year 1734 ; burials, 6.20 p.m. week days only
I742. The living is a rectory, tithes commuted at £2oo, Church of England School (mixed), built at a cost of £232

.gross yearly income £232, with residence and 56 acres of in I876, on a site given by Lady Egremont, who also gave

soglebe, in the gift of William Wyndham esq. nnd held since £Ioo; the school will hold children; average attend-

I893 by the Re''· Samuel Sidney Heathcote B. A. of Exeter ance, 27; Miss Fanny Devey, mistress

:Heathcote Rev. Samuel Sidney B.A. Harris Thomas, farmer, Clapperdown Sparkes William, farmer, Hansford

[Rectory] Hawkins Wm. yeoman, East Heywood Shobbrook Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Barton

CO:IIMERCIAL. Hill William, farmer, Moor end Shobbrook Samuel, farmer, Drewsland

.Berry Hannah T. (Mrs.) & Son, millers Isaac Thomas Wm. farmer, Higher hill Stokes Frederick, wheelwright & car-

~ water) & farmers Lintern William, yeoman, Lowton penter, Bondleigh cross

Cockwell Shadraeh, higgler MillerNathan,blacksmith,Bridgecottage Western Henr:r, yeoman, Cholhouse

Dunn William, carpenter Seldon Grace (Mrs.) & Son, farmers, White William, farmer, Bondleigh wood

.EllacottSusan(Miss), frmr. Westworthy West Heywood

NORT B BOVEY is a parish and village on the banks its roof display carved heads representing Edward l. and

>Of the beautiful river West Teign, otherwise called the his queens, Eleanor of Castile and Marguerite of France;
"' Bovey river," 14 miles south-west from Exeter, 12 north- another boss exhibits figures of three rabbits, the ears of

-west from Newton Abbot and I?! south-west from More- wh1ch meet and form a triangle: the fine Perpendicular

.ton Hampstead, where the nearest railway station is, in the rood screen of oak remains in fair condition, but its original
.Mid division of the county, Teignbridge hundred, Crockern- decoration has been obliterated by repeated coats of paint;
-well petty sessional division, Newton Abbot union, connty the lower portion is panelled, and the sides of the entrance
.court district of Newton Abbot and Torquay, rural deanery arch are enriched with carved figures of apostles and
>Of Moreton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. saints under crocketed canopies; the openings on either
'The church of St. John the Baptist is an edifice of granite, side are filled with Perpendicular tracery, and the cornice
:in the Early Enghsh, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, is richly carved with vine foliage and grapes ; two other
.consisting or chancel. nave of five bays, aisles, south porch screens inclose the eastern portions of the aisles, which

and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing Iformed chapels, but the piscinre as well as the doorway to

6 bells: the east and west windows are stained~ the chancel the rood loft are blocked and plastered over; the turret
retains a priest's doorway, and some of the carved bosses pf 1 containing the rood stairs projects externally: and the

~0 NORTH BOV.I!.Y. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLt"s

church is seated with open oak benches, many of which are feet 4 inches in height, and bears the letters 4' W. B." for

ancient, and affords sittings for 200 persons. The register "Warren Bounds." Hospit, or Stumpy Cros~, sometimes

dates from the year 1572. The living is a rectory, commu- c3lled "Bovey Cross," and I foot ro inches high, now

tation tithe rent-charge £328, average £255, net yearly value serves as an index post, and has cut on it the letters M. N.

£220, including 22 acres of glebe, with residence, in the 0. B. indicating the roads to Moreton, Newton, Okehamp-

gift of the Hon. W. F. D. Smith M.P. and held since 1866 ton and North llovey. From the lofty hills of East Down

by the Rev. William Henry Thornton M. A. of Trinity Col- and Hamilton Tors, in this parish, magnificent views of the

lege, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Near "the neighbourhood are obtained. There were formerly several!

parish is Grims-pound, a very remarkable circle of stones, tin mines in this parish, but they are not now worked. The

generally regarded as Druidical, but originally forming the Hon. William Frederick Danvers Smith M.P. is lord of tbe

inclosure of an early walled village: the fence, constructed manor and chief landowner. The soil is peaty, resting on

of huge masses of granite, is of considerable thickness, granite. The chief crops are barley, oats and grass. The

usu<1olly about 9 feet, and the space inclosed has a diameter acreage is 5,239; rateable value, £2,68o ; the population

of from 450 to 500 feet, and comprises within it a number in 1891 was 417· ·

of smaller circles, with entrances towards the south. On LITPVTaI.ATriI.FsFOhERRCDl,TearINkli,asJ~ohFNho'nREDSBEoiRsy,eas3.hmamilelest,w5esmt.iles south-west, and
the village green stands an ancient and rude cross of

granite about 5 feet 2 inches high, with a square base; the

shaft lay for some years in the Bovey brook, but was re- Sexton, William Waldron.
covered and replaced by the Rev. Mr. Jones, then curate, in
182g. Yaal or Hall cross, which stands on the road from PosT .OFFICE.-:Mrs. Phoobe Bridgman, receiver. Letters·
North Bovey to Beetor, was re-set in r868 by the Earl of through Newton .Abbot, via ~;oreton Hampstead, which is

Devon ; it consists of a quadrangular base bevelled off at the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7·45

the top into an octagonal shape, and rising from this a a.m. i box cleared at 5.20 p.m
tapering shaft, surmounted by a cross pattee; Bennett's National Schools (mixed), endowed with £3 a year from

Cross, on the moor near the road from Moreton to Tavi- the estate of Higher Langdon, for So children; average.

stock, is a boundary mark, with a tapering shaft about 6 attendance, 61; Miss Katherine Symington, mistress

Cann Mrs. Fairbrook cottage CumingElias,sen.frmr. Yard&Haywood Hooper Henry, farmer, Lepa

Thornton Rev. Wm. Henry M . .A.. Rectory Coming John Cornish, farmer, & Jewell William, tailor

Windeatt Mrs. Higher Luckdon assistant overseer, Wormhill Lang John, shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. Fice Thomas & John, millers (water), Lang John Jeffrey, thatcher

Bovey John, farmer, Bowdon New mill Leaman George &Saml.farmers,Keenalb

Bovey William, farmer, South Hookney German George, mason Marks William, farmer, Millands

llowden Edwin, farmer, West Coombe Hannaford James, farmer, Headland Middleditch Edward, farmer, Gratnar

BowdenMath.George,farmer,Ellacombe Harvey George, farmer, Thorn MortimoreGeorge,farmer; comfortable·

Cole William, farmer, Beetor Harvey William, farmer, Southmead farmhouse aparts. Higher Littaford

Colridge Eliza (Miss), Ring of Bells P.H Heyward Andrew, farmer, Greenawell :!\IIortimoreJames,farmr.LowerLangdOih

Colridge John, carpenter Heyward Francis, farmer, Hale MortimoreJoseph, farmer, Littaford

Colridge John, farmer, Shapley Heyward John, farmer, .Aller NewcombeJoseph,farmer,Low.Hookney

CreLer .Amos, farmer, Higher Langdon HeywardRichard,farmer,Week&Cleave Nosworthy William Windeatt, farmer,.

Coming Elias, jun. farmer, Blackaller Hill John, blacksmith & shopkeeper East Coombe

BOVEY TRACEY is an ancient but extinct borough, the windows are stained, several being memorials: there-

and parish with a station on the Moreton Hampstead br~nch are 200 sittings. There is also an iron chapel of ease at.
of the Great Western Railway, 6 miles north-west from Heathfield, holding about 6o persons. The Baptist chapel

Newton .Abbot, 4l south-west from Chudleigh and 7 south- seats about 500 persons: the Congregational chapel, 130,.

east from Moreton Hampstead, in the Mid division of the and the Wesleyan Methodist chapel 200 persons. .A came-
county, Teignbridge hundred and petty sessional division, tery was formed in 188g, and is under the control of a
Newton Abbot union, highway and county court district, burial board uf 9 members. .A vestry hall, with police cells.
rural deanery of Moreton, archdeaconry of Totnes and and residence for the constable, has been erected under the-
diocese of Exeter. The town, which is lighted with gas prolisions of the Vest.ry Act. .About 250 bands are employed
from works established in 1879, consists principally of one at the very extensive pottery and brick works, at Heathfield,..
long street, commencing at the border of the level and of Messrs. Candy and Co. (Limited), where fire bricks,
barren tract of land known as Bovey Heathfield, and ex- paving bricks, sanitary stone ware, and white and coloured
tending a ~onsiderable distance up the south-western slope glazed bricks are made. Many persons are also occupied at

of a high hill. Extensive views of the country are to be ob- Mr. G. R. Divett's potteries and lignite works: A special
tained from the higher part of the town. Bovey was a kind of pottery called " Chudleigh ware" is made here~
borough by prescription, with the style of " the mayor and There are three hotels, the principal of which is the-
freeholders of Bovey Tracey," its officers including a mayor, "Dolphin," where conl'eyances and fishing tickets can be·
bailiff, portreeve, constables and subordinates : the con- obtained. A market, long disused, and a fair for three days,

a.stables' staves, still preserved, bear the arms of the lord of were granted to Henry Tracey in 1259. Here is the Devon

the manor. The church of St. Thomas Becket was erected, House of Mercy for the Reception of Fallen Women : it was-.
according to tradition, iii I170, as an act of penance, by Sir established in r86r, and formally opened in 1863, the foun-

aWilliam de Tracy, who took the lead in the assassination of dation stone of the permanent house having been laid by

Thomas Becket, but some wall paintings, discovered in late Earl of Dcl'on in 1865: 90 inmates are received from all
the church in 1857, duriug the time it was undergoing parts of the country, and instructed with the view to their·
repair, appeared to indirate that St. 1\Iichael was the patron establishment in some respectable calling : the institution is.
saint : about 150 years after it was built, nearly the whole supported by voluntary contributions, and is in the care of
was destroyed by fire, but was afterwards restored : it is in members of the Clewer (Windsor) Sisterhood ; in connection

the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, two with this house is the St. Gabriel's Mission for work among-
north aisles and a south aisle, parted t:rom the nave by the poor, carried on by the same Sisterhood. The chief
arcades of five bays, south porch and an embattled western objects of interest in the immediate locality are the cele-
tower, with pinnacles, containing a. clock and 6 bellE~: the brated Haytor Rocks and Granite Quarry, llottor Rock,.
screen was resLored in 1887: on the panela are painted Lustleigll Cleave, Horseman's Steps, llecky Fall and the-

aseveral repetitions of figures which apparently represent the beds of lignite or Bovey coal. Colehays, about 1~ miles-

King and St. Thomas llecket : the pulpit is of stone, west, and standing in about 4oo acres of puk land, is the-
elaborately carved and richly decorated in gold and color : seat of Mrs. Levett. Parke, the seat of William Robert.

in the chancel are altar-tombs with canopies to members of Hole esq. J.P. is a handsome mansion, erected about 1825,.

the Hascly family, and to Eliza Hele, who, in 1632, bestowed near the site of the ancient seat of the Traceys, of whirh

large estates to "godly purposes and charitable uses:" a there are now no remains, and stands in about 6o acres of"

new organ was placed in the church in 188g, at a cost of park land. To the south of Bovey Tra<.'By is Indio, the seat.

£x,ooo: there are 5oosittings. The register dates from the of Mrs. Bentinck. Wolleigh House, the seat of Henry T.

year 1538. The living is a "icarage, average yearly value Ferguson esq. about one mile north, is a building of stone in

from tithe rent-charge [342, with 7 acres of glebe, and the Early Gothic style, beautifully situated in about 75 acres:

residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1849 by of land. On January g, 1646, the town, then the hea<J

the Rev. the Hon. Charles Leslie Courtenay :ar.A. of Christ quarters of Lord Wentworth's brigade, was suddenly

Church, Oxford, chaplain in ordinary to Her Majesty, canon attacked by Lieutenant-General Cromwell, witb a part of
()f Windsor, and surrogate. St. J olm's church, on the Heath- the Parliamentary army, under the command of Sir Thomas;

field, erected in 1853 at the expense of the present vicar, is Fairfax; a great many prisoners were made, though a.

an edifice in the Go~hic style, from the designs of the late portion of the Royalists escaped during the night. Tho-
Mr. Carpenter, architect, and consists of a beautifully manor of llovey was formerly held by the Traceys, Barons:

deco"tated chancel, with sculptured reredos, nave, aisles, ot llarnstaple, but is now the property of Mrs. Bentinck...

organ chamber and a western turret containing 2 bells: all The principal landowners are Mrs. Bentinck, the trustees of'

•

DffiEOTORY.J DEVONSHIRE, 71BOVEY l'R!CEY•

the late Captain Levett, William Robert Hole esq. .J,p, of PUBLIC OF~ICERS : -

Parke, Miss Divett, Harry T. Eve esq. and ~e trustees of Certifying Surgeon for Bovey Tracey & Cbudleigh, Medical

the late William Harris esq. The soil is light loam; sub- Officer & Public Vaccinator, Bovey Tracey & Ilsington

soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and Districts, ~ewton Abbot Union, Henry Goodwyn L.R.C.P,

general forage. The area is 7,491 acres; rateable value, Edin. Rowardennan

£n,386; the population in I8yr was 2,422. Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Bovey District,

LITTLE BovEY, Ii miles south-east; BRADLEY, 'I mile Newton Abbot Union & Assistant Overseer, Jonas Parnell,
l\iilverton
south-east; CHALLABROOK, 1 mile south, and WRAYLAND, 3 Town Crier, Thomas Bray, Fore street
miles north-west, are hamlets in this parish. ScHOOLS: .
The Grammar School was founded in 1713, & reconstituted
Sexton, Thomas Kenwood.

PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- under a new scheme in 1879, when new school premises
Richard Samuel Ladd, sub-postmaster. Letters through were erected at the foot of Haytor, about a mile from the
Newton Abbot arrive at 5.25 a.m. 12.30 & 6.30 p.m.; dis- village ; William Thomas, head master
patched at 1.45 & 7·35 p.m
This place contributes 2 members to the Lustleigh School

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:- Board

Cemetery, James Parnell, clerk to the Burial Board Free National~ built. in 1868, for 300 children; average at-

Fire Brigade, William Adams, captain tendance, 57 boys; 95 girls &infants; William Westwood,

Police Station, William Martin, officer master ; Miss M. Kallaway, mistress

Devon House of Mercy, The Bishop of Exeter, visitor ; British (mixed), built in z866, for rso children; average

the Rev. the Hon. Canon Oharles Leslie Courtenay M.A. attendance, 96; Miss Lena Kingcorne, mistress

warden ; Rev. Thomas Bingham M.A. sub-warden; Rev. St. John's (infants), built in 186o, for 6o children ; average

Prebendary Harry Tudor M. A, hon. sec. ; Henry Ferguson attendance, so; Mrs.. E. Hillier, mistress

esq. hon. treasurer Railway Station, William Tucker, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS, • Aggett William1 builder, undertaker Edwards William, farmer, Frost

Anderson Lieut.-Gen. Harry Cortlandt, & paperhanger, Fore street Ellis Andrew, outfitter,Town Hall place

Fairfield Aggett Wm. refreshment rooms, Forest Endacott George, greengrocer, Fore ~t

Bastow William Powley, Lower Brimley Alford William, tailor, Fore street EndacottThos.market gardener,Mary st

Beale Charles Henry, Fore street Archer Alfred, shopkeeper, Heathfield Evans Jas. umbrella repairer, East st

Beer Mrs. Town Hall place Baker Henry, general merchant & Farnes Kate (Mrs.), midwife, Mary st J

Bentinck Mrs. Indio implement agent, Fore street Fry Albert, manager of Gas works

Bingham Rev. Thomas M.A. [curate & BakerRt.HughoMontagu,frmr. Wrwcks Fry George, farmer, Little Bovey

sub-warden of the Devon House of Beer John George, wheelwright & sec. Gale Emmeline(Miss),dress ma. Pottery

Mercy], Sub-warden's lodge to the Gas Company Limited Gale Samuel Daymond, draper,

Chadwycke Harry, Yarner Bibbings John Henry, chemist, Fore st milliner, hosier, glover & ladies' &;

Chichester Mrs. Church style Bond George, shoe maker, J<'ore street children's outfitter, Town Hall place

Collyns Bayley Moore, Plumley Bovey Tracey Fire Brigade (W1lliam Gale Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Pottery

Courtenay the Rev. the Hon. Charles Adams, captain) Gilley John, farmer, Lower Brimley

Leslie M.A. [canon of Windsor], vicar Bovey Tracey Gas Co. Limited (J. G. Godsland Ambrose, baker, pastry-

Cowlard Miss, St. John's cottages Beer, sec) cook & confectioner; first-class

Cracker Mrs. Little St. Catherine's Bovey Tracey Pottery Co.(George · ref'reshments at moderate

Croker Misses, Cross cottages Ross Divett,sole proprietor), earthen- charges, wedding &birthday cakes to

Divett George Ross, Chapple ware manufacturers; & at 91 Hatton order, Fore street

Divett Miss, Riverside garden, London Eo Goodridge Fanuy (Mrs. ),farmer,South-

Eve Harry T. Pullabrook Bovey William, butcher, Townsend brook

Fenwick Mrs. Hillside Bowden & Son, smiths &. implement Goodwyn HenryL.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon,

Ferguson Henry 'fanner M.mst.c.E. makers, East street & medir.al officer & public vaccinator,

Wolleigh house BrayThos.towncrier&bill poster, Forest Bovey Tracey & Islington districts,

l''ox Misses, Heatheredge Candy & Co. Limited(J.M.Limpns, Newton .Abbot union & certifying

J<'ox-Strangways Mrs. Front house manager),see Great WesternPotteries factory surgeon for Bovey Tracey &

Frost Dennis Tregrosse, Moorside & Brick works. See advertisement Cbudleigh, Rowardennan

Gamble Mrs. Ullacombe Capital & Counties Bank Limited (snb- Grammar School (endowed) (William

Goodwyn Henry, Rowardennan branch) (open fridays 10 to 2); draw Thomas, headtmaster) ; established

Gooby Rev. Melancthon Lewis [Con- on head office, 39 Threadneedle street, 1713; healthy situation, separate

gregational], The Manse London E c cubicles

Gould Mrs. Nutcombe, Knowle house Cemetery (James Parnell, clerk to the Great Western Potteries &

Gunning Misses, St. John's cottage burial board) Brickworks (Candy & Co.Limited)

GurneyRev.FrederickM.A.Heathfield ho Cleave Alfred, builder, Fore street (J. M. Limpus, manager) ; manu-

Hall Rev. George J. M.A. [curate] Coniam John, coal & wood dealer facturers of stoneware sewerage pipes,

Harris Joseph, Lower Coombe Constitutiona!Club(AlfredGodbeer,sec) vitrified paving bricks, government

Hole Mrs. Parke view Cornish William,shopkeeper,Heathtield quality fire bricks, terra-ootta facing

Hole William Robert J. P. Parke Creese J ane (Mrs. ),dress maker,East st bricks, architectural terra cotta,

Hughes Genl. Sir William Templer CrockerChrltt. (Mrs.), frmr.FiveWyches white & colored glazed bricks ;

K.C.B., J.P. Dunley Cumming Bros. ironmongers &; smiths London offices, II Queen Victoria

Humfrey Lt.-Col. Benj. Geo. Edgemoo:r Dadd John & Joseph, landowners & street E c. See advertisement

Joll John Lamble, West Teign view farmers, Kelley Hamlin William, butcher, East street

Lee William Henry, Heathveld terrace Dadd Wm. Amery,farmer,Knowle farm Hamlyn John, shoe maker, East street

Levett Mrs. Coleha}s Darke George Joseph, baker,Fore street Harris John, boot maker, Mary street

Lovell William Stanhope, Glendale Davey Silas, builder Harris Lottie (Miss),dress maker, Town.

Loveys Thomas, Church hill Dayment Thomas, farmer, Lnscombe Hall place

Mann William, Heath view Dayrnond & Sandercock, dress HarrisReuben,boot makr.Town Hall pl

Marsland St. John's view makers, Fore street Harvey Henry, farmer, Stickwick

Mugford Jabez . Belmont DaymondWm.&Son.stonemsns.Fore st Harvey Richard, farmer, Wi:fford

Noad Frederick John, Fore street Devon & Cornwall Banking Co. Limited Hat.ch Thomas, farmer, Langaller

Palmer Miss, St. John's cottages (sub-branch) (Alfred Gregory, man- Hawkridge Wm. tailor,Town Hall place.

Philpott Misses, Bradley ager); open thursdays from 10 a. m. Hayman Kate (Miss),dress ma. East 8t

Richards Mrs. Dean parke to 1.30 p.m.), Fore street; draw on Hayman William, shopkeeper, East st

Robinson William, Fore street Barclay, Bevan & Co. London E c Haywood Bessie I(Mrs.), fancy :reposi-

Rome James, Riversleigh Devon House of Mercy (Rev. the Hon. tory, Fore street

Slatter Edmund Meek, Hawkmoor Canon Charles Le.slie Conrtenay M.A. Heath Edwin, shopkeeper, East street

Smith Rev. Ashford [Baptist], Rowleho warden; Rev.Thomas Bingham H.A. Heath William Henry, dairyman, wood

Sparks William Webber, Viewfield sub-warden; Rev.l'rebendary Harry & general merchant, Mary street

Thomas William, Grammar school Tudor H.A. hon. sec. ;. Sister Bertha, Hellier .John, Dolphin family & com-

Tracey Mrs lady superi()r) mercial hotel & posting house ; post·

Treeby John Wright, Stonelands Devon Lignite Works (GeorgeRoss ing in all its branches; best route

UrquhartRev.Edwd.Wm.H.A.St.Mary's ,Divett, sole propr~etor), mine owners over Dartmoor hills, livery

Warner Misses, The Re~reat (lignite} stables; fishing tickets sold at the

Wingfield Rev. Hyde Colsell [curate] Divett George Ross, lignite mine owner hotel. Seeadvertisement

COllMERCIAL. &earthenware manufacturer Helyer & Barkell, bakers, Mary street

Aggett Edward. farmer, Lower Brimley Dolbear Edwin, tailor, Fore street Holmes Ann (Mrs.), carrier & Grea~

Aggett.Eliza.beth(Mrs.),shpkpT.Mary st Edwards George, saddler, Fore street Western Railway agent, Fore street

72 BOVEY TRACEY. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'.S

Hopkins Thomas, farmer, Hatherley Pearce Bessie (Miss), milliner, Forest Tribble John Edwin, farmer, Bradley

Humphrey Elizabeth (Mrs.), Bell inn, PerrymanJoseph,chimney swpr.Fore st Tucker Edward &. Sons, wheel-

Town cross Peters Percy William, grocer, wine & wrights & carriage builders; carpen-

Jervis Daniel, farmer, Shute farm spirit & bottle & cask ale merchant, ters, builders, undertakers & house

Jcrvis William, farmer, Soldridge aerated waters, patent medicines, decnrators; estimates given for all

Kenwood'fhos.aparts.Choir ho.Heathfld burning oils &c. Bovey 'fracey stores kinds of work, East street

lGni!well Wm. shopkeeper, Fore street Pethybridge John, farmer, Whistlewell Tully Bessie(Mrs.),aparts.Sunny valley

Ladd Rd.Sl.booksellr.Post oflice,Fore st Philp Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Ullacombe Turner & Daymond, drapers, grocers,

Langworthy Geo.farmer,Middle combe Pinsent Henry, farmer, Whitstone Station road

Lavis Edward, boot & shoe ma. Forest PoLterGeorge,chimney sweeper,East st Underdown Eliza (Mrs.),lodging house,

Lavis John,King of Prussia P.H.Fore st Railway Family &. Commercial Milverton

Leaker William, baker, Station rd Hotel (The) (John George Beer, Upham John, boot maker, Fore street

Loveys Anna (Mrs. ),aparts.Summerfld proprietor), posting house ; good S3l- Walling Eliza (Mrs. ),aparts. Bell house

Loveys Mary Jane (Mrs.),baker,Fore st mon & trout fishing; fishing tickets Walling John, insurance agent,Mary st

M ann William & Son, butchers, Forest may be obtained at the hotel. See ad vt Warner Misses (The), rniddJe

Mardon Wm.James Thos. furnish- Reading Rooms (Josiah Ellis, sec) class school for girls, The

ing & general ironmonger, sanitary & Readstone James, jobbing gardener, Ret.reat. See advertisement

hot water engineer,pracLical plumber Hind Street house Warner William,engraver, The Retreat

& gasfitter, Fore street. See advert Reynolds William, tailor, Fore street Webber John, greengrocer, Fore street

May Stephen, watch maker,Fore street Rit:e John, farmer, Wreyland \Velsford 'rhos. & Hy. bakers & grocers

Moore James, smith, 'fownsend Rowe Henry, draper,.Fore street Westwood Wm.draper & grocer,Fore st

Mountford George, jun. painter, Rawe Wm. Kernick, lodging ho.Fore st White way & Ball, coal merchants; & at

glazier, painter & house decorator, Sandercock Mabel (Miss), dress maker Torquay

Mary street (firm,Daymond&Sandercock),Fore st Wilcocks Edward Bennett,landowner &

MountfordLewis,shopkeeper,Heathfield St.Gabriel's Mi~sionHouse (Sister Lucy farmer, Woodlands

Mugford Jabez, farmer, Bradley Edith, sister in charge) Winsor John, stone mason, Fore street

Parnell Jonas, assistant overseer, clerk Sercombe William, saddler & harness Wolfinden Thomas William, Union hotl

to the burial board & registrar of maker & linen draper, Fore street Wonnacott William Henr.\'1 organist of
births, deaths & marriages for Bovey Slatter Edmd.Meek,farmer,Hawkmoor parish church, Sunny valley

district of Newton union, Milverton Stamp William, farmer, Forder Wreford Alfred, farmer, Elsford

Parr William Henry, farmer, Bullaton Strong Hannah(Mrs.),aparts.Hillsboro' Wreford William, farmer, Aller

Passmore George, lodging house Thomson Fanny (Miss), shopkeeper Wreford Wm.jun.farmer,North Combe

Patent Porous Carbon Co.(F. A.Cowell, Thurston Henry, apartments, Bank side Wyatt Eliza (Mrs.), miller (water) &

manaJer) Tolley Samuel, dairyman, Atway · hay, straw & corli dealer,Town mills

BOW (or NYMET TRACEY) is a parish and large village, on tributed in bread: there is also Hoyles' charity, amounting ·

the river Yeo and on the old road from Exeter to Okehamp- to £32. Hill Down Manor is the property of the Rev.
ton, with a station, 1! miles south, on the main line of the Richard Greenall M.A. and the residence of James Ponsford
London and South Western railway, 7 miles west from esq. ; it was formerly the residence of the Moon and Pent-
Crediton, 10 from Okehampton, ·1s north-west from Exeter ridge families, and was purchased by the present owner
and 187! miles from London, in the Northern di,·ision of thP. in 188r; Gratton House is the property of William Lane
county, North Tawton hundred, Crediton petty sessional esq. ; Nymet belongs to William Kelland esq. of Exeter;
division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Collitons is the seat and residence of Mrs. Price ; Tree-

Cadbury and archdeacomy and diocese of Exeter. The down House is the property of J. B. Howell esq. ; Spestus

ohurch of St. Bartholomew is an ancient building of stone, Grange, of W. P. Moon; Cot belongs to William Snow
originally Early English, consisting of chancel, nave, north esq. of Crediton. The manor of Bow, anciently belon,;-
aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, with ing to the Tracy family, passed successively to the fatnilies

pinnacles, containing 5 bells, of which the 1st, 3rd and tenor 1of Martin, Audley, I<'itzwilliam and Hankford and to the

date from 1754; the 2nd, r764; and the 4th, 176S : the Bourchiers, Earls of Bath; it was sold by the late Sir
tower and na\'e, which are in the Decorated style, were prob- T. Lethbridge hart. and is now the property of William Lane
ably built about 1370, and the north aisle, which is Perpen-1 esq. The other landowners are the Rev. Richard Greenall
dicular, was added about 100 or ISO years later: the chancel I H.A. rector of Grappenhall, Cheshire, the Rev. A. H. Hamil-
was rebuilt in 1862, and its windows are filled with stained ton, Messrs. Wreford, Hole, E. H. Adams, of Hillerton, J. B.
glass: a carved oak screen divides the nave from the chancel: Howell, of Spestos Grange, William Kelland esq. of Exeter,
this church is one of three built in this county by William de and Richard Davy esq. F.R.c.s. of Burstone, Zeal Monach-

aTracy, in expiation of the part taken by him in the murder orum. 'fhe soil on the north of the parish is rich red sand-

of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, 29 Dec. 1170: stone with marsh land and clay on the south. The chief
the east and west windows are memorials, and there are crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 2,740
IW\'eral others: it was restored. in 1888, and affords 440 sit- acres ; rateable value, £3,580; the population in 1891 was
tings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1607; 724.
.marriages and burials from r6o4. The living is a rectory, Hy a Local Government order wllich came into operation
with that of Broad Nymet annexed, average tithe rent- March 2S, 1884, a detached part of the parish known as

charge £353, net yearly value £422, including 103 acres of Appledore was amalgamated with Clannaborough.
glebe, with residence, in the gift of Frederic Burrow esq. Posr, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office
LL.D. of Fairfield, Cullompton, and held since 1886 by the (aailway Sub-Ottice. Letters should bave R.S.O. NorLli
Rev. William Hugh Bowden, of the University of Oxford. Devonadded).-WjlliamArthurJackman, sub-postmaster.
Th~ church of St. Martin, at BROAD NYMET, is a small Letters arr~ve by rail at 4.30 a.m. & 3 p.m.; dispatcherl
structure in the Early English style, with lancet windows, at 3.30 p.m. & 8 p.m. ; delivery commences at 6 a.m. &
but has no tower, and divine service has not been performed 3 p.m
in it for many years. There is a Congregational chapel with Police Station, John Popman, police officer
200 sittings, and the Plymouth Brethren have also a place A School Board of s members was formed Dec. :~:8, 1874,
of worship capable of seating ISO persons. The l'illage has clerk to the board (vacant)

been supplied since I8S9 with water brought from a mile Board School (mixed), erected in r88o, at a cost of £8oo,

anrl half distant, thro~h the exertions of the late John for 120 children ; average attendance, 85 ; Thomas Blair,
Uibbings; W. Packe esq. bequeathed £360 for the purpose master; Mrs. Lily Blair, mistress
and the remaining expense, £rgg, was given by tpe Misses Railway Station, Alfred Webb, superintendent

Wreford. Charities amounting to £6 16s, yearly, are dis- CARRIER TO CREDITON & EXETEB.-Henry Dunn, fri

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Simons Arthur Romer, St. Helens Cockerham Thomas, mason
Snell Misses, Rose villa Devon &Cornwall Banking Co. LimiteJ

Adams Ernest Herbert, Hillerton cross COMMERCIAL, (sub-branch of Crediton) (Fr1mcis S.
Howden Rev. William Hugh, Rectory . Sprague, manager); open wednesday

Child Rev. Peter [Plymouth Brethren] Adams Emest Herbert, Hillerton cross ':t2.30 till 3 30; draw on .Barclay,

Da.vy Richard M.B• .Burstone house; & Alford William, tailor Bevan & Co. London E c

33 Welbeck street, London w Avery Thos. thrashing machine proprtr Down George, farmer, Halse farm

Haycroft Charles Henry Baker John, farmer, Coxmore Dunn Henry, carrier

Lane William, Gratton house Bidgway Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper Ellacott Betsy (Mrs.), shopkeepeT

Moon William Palmer, Spestos grange Bolt S. & Son Co-operative Supply EJlacott I<'rederick, builder

Pedler John, Tree down Stores ; & at Chagford & Princetown Enderson Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer,

Ponsford James, Hill Down manor Burrows James, baker Blue Violet farm

Powlesland John, Reeves house Cattell Henry James, bntche:r Glover Frederick John, shoeing & job-

Powlesland John, Myrtle cottage Cockerham Edwin, thatcher ' bing smith, paJisading & wire fencing

Price Mrs. Collitons Cockerham James, shoe maker tit implement maker, grate8 & stoves

:oiRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BRADNJNCH. 73

neatly repaired; also agent for John I Lang John, Railway inn, & farmer Reddaway Rich!lrd, shqpkeeper

Crowley & Co. machinists & for Gar- Lee John, mason Rowdon George, baker

uiners ranges Layman William, builder & contractor Sanders Ernest Wm.veterinary surgeon

Grant William, butcher Luxton John, Ebrington Arms P.H Saunders William Anthony, farmer,

Gribble James, farmer . Merchant John, Burston inn Nymet Barton

Harvey John, see King's Armg hotel Metherell William, blacksmith Simons Arthur Romer, farmer

Hawkins Jane (Miss), baker Osborn Hy. wheelwright, West_Halse Snell James, farmer, Burston

H.tycroft Charles Henry, surgeon, & Parr Richard, shopkeeper Stoneman Francis, saddler

medical officer & public vaccinator, Parker Thomas, baker 'faylor Philip Lewis, Tradesman's inn

Bow & Coleridge & Colebrooke dis- Pedlar John, farmer, Treedown house Tucker M'l.ry (Mrs.), farmer, West

tricts, Crediton union, Fair park Powlesland George, farmer, Natson Langford

J{orwill William, assistant overseer for Powlesland John (firm, Pyke, Horne & Vile William, farmer, Nymet wood

Bow & Clannaboro' parishes & col- Powlesland), auctioneer & bailiff Vodden Daniel, thatcher

lector of poor's rate appointed under the Law of Distress Watts Joseph, farmer

Howe Henry, boot & shoe maker Ameadment Act {I888) & agent for Webber Mary Ann (Mrs.), draper, gro·

Hubbard George, florist the Railway Passengers' Accidental cer & ironmonger

Hugo Joseph, shopkeeper Insurance Co. Reeve's house White Hart family & com-nercial hotel

Jackman Henry, saddler Pyke, Horne &. Powlesland, auctioneers, & posting house (Mrs. M'l.ry Sanders,

.Jackman William Arthur, news agent land agents, valuers for probate, proprietress)

& fancy repository, & post office architects & surveyors; & at North Wreford John, farmer, K:~.st Langford

King's Arms family & commercial hotel Tawton & Hatherleigh; also Oke- Wreford Wm. farmer, Common moor

& posting house (Jn. Harvey, propr) hampton, saturdays

BRADFORD is a parish and village, on the river Tor- been formed by Hengist. Dunsland, mentioned in Domes-

ridge and intersected by the river Waldon, 7 miles east fr-om day, and possessed soon after the Conquest by John Cadiho,
Holsworthy, 2~ north of Dunsland Cross station on the Oke- from whom it descended through the families of Daubernon,
luunpton and Holsworthy branch of the London and South Batten, Arscott and Bickford to that of Coham, is ttow the

''Vestern railway, in the Western division of the county, property of Mrs. Dickenson, sister of the late W. H. B.
hundred of Black Torrington, petty sessional division, union Coham esq. J.P. of Coham, and in the occupancy of Colonel
and county court district of Holsworthy, rural deanery of W1lliam Bickford; the mansion was enlarged in I6o9 and
Holsworthy, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of retains over one of the windows a quartered shield of the
Exeter. The church of All Saints, a building of stone in the Bickfords, with their alliances, and on either side the arm>
Korman and later styles, consists of chancel, nave, north of Bickford and Parker; over the east entrance is a shield
aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, with with the coat of Bickford impaling Prideaux; in the church
pinnacles, containing 5 bells; the xst is dated r847, the sth, room, redecorated in I66o, are the arms of Bickford impaled.
r8u, and the 3rd, I831 ; the 2nd and 4th were re-cast in with that of Arscott; in the billiard room, which is the old
:~;8gr : there is a beautiful Norman doorway: the tower, justice hall, are the arms of the different families who have

which had been injured by lightning, was restored in ISso, owned Dunslanrl. Bovacott, on the decease of the late
as appears by a date on one of its sLones: the nave and owner, Lewis Risdon Heysett esq. J.P. was purchased by
ch:tncel are Early Decorated: in the church were formerly Clervaux Morley Sannd~rs esq. J.P. the present occupant.
brasses and inscriptions to the Hengscote and Dabernon The representatives of the late Joseph Thomas English esg_.
families: on the south side of the sacrarium is a large shte J.P. of Wayfield House, Snitterfield, S~ratford-on-Avon, are
slab 6 feet 4 inches long by about 2 feet wide, inciied in the lords of the manor. The other principal landowners are
centre with a figure resembling a merchant's mark, and with Earl Stauhope F.S.A., D.L. 1 J.P. Mrs. Dickenson, C. l\1.
crosses at the angles; it was probably an altar-stone, and S'!.unders esq. J.P. Mrs. Coham and John Blyth Coham-
the north aisle, w bich is Late Perpendicular, retains a beau- Fleming esq. D. L., J. P. of Coham, Black Torrington. The
- tiful piscina and a portion of an altar stone and has two soil varies much, from good on stone subsoil, to bad on clay.
memorial windows to the Dunsland and Bovacot families: The chief crops are wheat, oats and roots. The area is
there are memorial brasses to the D'aubernon and Cadiho 3,468 acres; rateable value, £I,903; the population in I891
f::.tmilies, and tablets of various dates to the Bickford, May- was 482.
nard, Heysetts, Venton and Coham families: in the tower is Parish Clerk, Arscott Short.
a stained window, presented by the late J. T. English esq.: PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,
the church was restored in I86o and the chancel rebuilt in Brandis Corner (Railway Sub-Offi~e. Letters should have
I889: there are 200 sittings. The register (an unusually R.S.O. Devon added). Receiving house for Abbots-Bick-
carly one) is said to date from the year I500. The living is ington, Bradford, Hulkworthy, Co9kbury, Eest & West
a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £232, net yearly value Putford, Milton Damerel & Tbornbury.-Samuel Cole,
£263, including 70 acrM of glebe, wit,h residence, in the gift postmaster. Letters arrive at 5.40 a. m. ; dispatched at
of Bampfield"s trustees, and held since IB90 by the Rev. 6.30 p.m. Dunsland Cross station is the nearest telegraph

:Francis Russell-Rawes llf.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, office
and rural dean of Holsworthy. Miss Bickford bequeathed WALL LETTER BoxEs, Black gates, cleared at 6 p.m. ; Hole

£3oo and W. Wills left £25, the interest of both to be moor, cleared at 5·55 p.m. ; & Priestcott, cleared at 5.40

equally divided between the poor of this parish and Cook- p.m
bury. There is a Bible Christian chapel, erected in I839, Voluntary School (mixed), for Bradford & Cookbury, erected
and seating ISO persons: attached is a Sunday school and a in Il:!75• for 120 children; average attendance, 84; Wm.
S!llall burial ground. At Hengistcot, the estate of Earl Henry To:te, master ; Miss Sarah Ellen Stid well, assistant

Stanhope, is a fortified camp, whi"h tradition reports to have mistress

Bickford Col. William, Dunsland GilbertGeo,ironmonger & general smith Rowland John, gamekeeper to Mrs. '
Bright Mrs. Adelaide cottage
Carey Mrs. J. L. 1\f. S~one Cross cot Heard Nathaniel, Bickford Arms P.H Dickenson
Reed. Charles Francis, Bradford house Hutchings Bethuel, farmer, Highstead
Russell-Rawes Rev. Francis M.A.Lrural Sanders Richard, cowkeeper,Middlecott
HutchingsWm. Prower,frmr.Hole moor Sanders Samuel, blacksmith
dean], Rectory Hunkin i::laml. farmer, East Rightadown Short Arscott, carpenter
Saunders Clervaux Morley J.P. Rovacott Isaac Wllliam, farmer, Middlecott Slade George, cowkeeper
Vanstone Arscott Lewis, Moorfield ho Lane Joseph, co~t breaker Slade William, blacksmith
Longman Wm. draper & grcr. Hole moor Sluggett Richd. Watts, farmer,Lashbrk
COMMI!:RCIAL. Smale John, farmer, Basin
Martin Geurge, farmer, Kennaland Taylor George, farmer, Manor farm
Bailey Jas. mason & farmer, Hole moor Martin William, farmer, Flares Towl John, farmer, West Bradford
Bailey William, farmer, Dunsland farm Martin "\\'illiam, jun. farmer, Flares Vanstone James, farmer, Kennala.nd
llrooksWm.gardnr.to Col. Wm.Bickford Ward Lewis, shoe m:iker
Chamberlain Wm. farmer, Lashbrook May John, farmer, West Rightadown Wivell Agnes (Mrs.), farmer,Quick mill
Daniel Henry Jn. farmer, Middlecott Parkin Richard, farmer, Rightadown Wonnacott William, farmer, Stadson
Daniel James, farmer, Kithill Yeo Matthew, farm3r, Endsoott
Daniel W:illiam, farmer, West Bradford Perkin William, carpenter, Hole moor
I>aw John, shoe maker, Fore street Piper William, farmer, Flares
Rogers Richard, poultry dlr. High park
Rogers Samuel, farmer

BRADNINCH once an ancient borough, and now a vil- scriptive as well as chartered rights: the oldest known

lage and parish, 2 miles south from Cullompton, 9 north from charter was granted in the year 1208, bnt the common seal
l!:xeter, 185! from London and I mile north from Hele station bears date II36, when probably the place came into the
on the Bristol and Exeter section of the main line ofthe Great possession of Reginald (de Danstanvill) Eart of Cornwall,
Western railway, in the 'fiverton division of the county, natural son of Henry I.: from the time of Edward II. to
hundred of Hayridge, Cullompton petty sessional division, and in the reign of Henry VII. the borough sent two

Tiverton union and county court district, rural deanery of members to Parliamant; but the privilege being found
l:ast Tiverton and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. It burdensome by the inhabitants, the borough, in the reign
\taB formerly a borough of grea~ antiqt1ity and claimed pre-, of R.mry VII. was excused upon the payment of five m:1.rks

• · DEVONSHIRE. • [KELLY'S

'•74 BRADSINCB..

C£3 I6S. 3d.). The place received its first charter from painted with an eagle displayed, ~nd the motto 2. Fidelis

Reginald (de Dunstanvill) Earl of Cornwall in II35, and regi et patriae ; " the borough seals both bear the town

another from Kin~ John : it was re-incorporated by James I. device and a legend, and there is a large china punch bowl

in 1604, and by Charles II. in 1681, the corporation consist- 21 inches in diameter and decorated with paintings of my-.

ing of a mayor, twelve masters and an indefinite number thological subjects, which bad been in the possession of the

of burgesses or freemen, as well as a recorder, town clerk, two corporation for several generations. The old Parsonage

sergeants-at•mace and constables. 'fhe corporation was House, now called the " Manor House" and occupied by John

abolished by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Rowell esq. jun. was for many generations the restdence of

Vict. eh. 18), but did not finally cease to exist till Lady Day, the ancient family of Saintbill, members of which have in

1886. The church of St. Dionysius or Denys is a building of t be earliest periods of our parliamentary history represented

stone in the Later Perpendicular style, partly rebuilt in 1841, the county of Devon, the city of Exeter and the borough of

at an expense of about£I,Ioo, and consists of chancel, nave, Tiverton. Peter Sainthill esq. a devoted Royalist, was a

north aisle, vestry, south porch and an embattled western privy-councillor, master in chancery and a steward of the

tower with pinnacles containing 6 bel1s; in I88I the latter ~tannary courts of Cornwall, in the reign of Charles I. and

were repaired and put in thorough order, the south porch also represented Tiverton in Parliament. The name of

built from designs by Messrs. Hayward, architects of Exeter, Sainthill has now become extinct in this parish, the last

as a memorial to W:illiam Drew esq. of Kensham, and the person of that name being Elizabeth Margaret Sainthill, who

tower arch opened and restored : the north aisle was built in married Hear-Admiral Thomas Pearse : the Sainthill pro-

the reign of Henry VII. : at the east end of the aisle was the perty, since the death of the late George Pearse esq. has all

chapel of St. John, founded by the fraternity of St. John, or been sold. The Manor house contains richly-carved oak

the guild of Cordwainers, and endowed with land worth £19 rooms of the Elizabethan period in fine preservation, and a

in 1547 A.D. when it was dissolved: the fine panelled screen bedroom, in which, according to tradition, Charles I. once

dates from 1528 ; the subje~ts on the panel of the central slept. A fair formerly held here was abolished June 3, 1873.

door are quaint but careful representations of" The Annun- There are several small freehold estates within the parish,

ciation'' and "The Salutation;" and the remaining panels but the greater part belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall.

are adorned with figures of the Latin doctors, judges, sibyls, Courts leet and baron were formerly held half-yearly for the

and allegorical groups; part of the screen which has been Duchy of Cornwall, but are now discontinued; by the

placed at the west end illustrates in its panels the legends of charter of creation of the Duchy, 17th March, I337 (uth

St. Cbristopher, St. Francis of Assisi and St. Sebastian: there Edward Ill.), the right of free warren through the manor of

are several good modern stained windows, and the porch Bradninch and other lands and manors was granted to

'Windows contain figures of St. Denys and of St. George ; tbf Edward the Black Prince, then Duke of Cornwall, and to his

stained west window is a memorial to A. Linnington esq. : mccessors. The soil is various; subsoil, gravel. The chief

and on the south side is a stained window presented by the <.rops are wheat, barley and apples. The area is 4,35I

Hon. George West, a native of this town and a member of acres; rateable value, £Io,247; population in I891 was

Congress U.S.A. who also presented the lamp over the en- r,7o8.
trance gate of the yard ; the windows in the chancel are in Hele is a hamlet, 1 mile south, with a station on the

memory of Messrs. Henry, William and Charles .Matthews; Great Western main line. Here is a school room licensed

on a corbel of one of the chancel windows is the figure of a for divine service by the Bishop of Exeter.

demi-angel bearing an impaled shield with the arm~ of the TRINITY is a hamlet I mile north.

Precentor of Exeter and those of Richard Norton, who held Parish c:erk, Robert Brimicombe.

this office in 15I2 : the skilrul1y carved eagle lectern was Sexton, William Ball ·

given in memory of Miss Dulcibella Linnington : a vestry rosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

and heating apparatus were added in 1888: the tower was William Henry Crabb, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive

struck by lightning in I887, but has since been restored at from Cullompton at 7 a. m. 9·45 a. m. & g.r5 p.m. Sunday,

a cost of over £100. In 1889 the church was thoroughly 7-5 a.m.; dispatched at 9.so.a.m. 11.50 a.m. & 7.2op.m.

restored at a cost of about £r,goo: there are 410 sittings. Sundays, 7.10 a.m

The parish registers date from A.D. 1559. The living is a PosT & 'f. 0. Hele.-JamesLynes, sub-postmaster. Letters

perpetual curacy, yearly value £280, net £1go, including arrive from Cullompton at 7· IS a.m. & 4. IS p.m. ; dis-

37 acres of glebe, in the patronage of the Dean and Canons patched at II.25 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. The nearest money

of Windsor, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Edward Capel order office is at Bradninch. Postal orders are issued

Cure :B.A. of King's College, Cambridge. Here is a Baptist here, but not paid

chapel. An addition has been made to the churchyard, LETTER Box cleared at 7.10 p.m. week days only

which is under the management of a burial board. The PUBLIC OFFICERS :-

charities, amounting to£111 yearly, are distributed in kind Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Bradninch & Butter-

and money. There are two paper mills in this parish; one leigh Districts, Tiverton Union, Charles HenryHallett?.I.B

at Kensham, carried on by l\Iessrs. C. T. Cuming and Son Collector of Poor Rates, Assessed & Property Taxes, Peter

Limited; the other at Hele, by the Hele Paper Co. \Varren •

Limited. The Guildhall and Gaol were rebuilt in 1835: Registrar of Births & Deatb9, Tiverton Union, Silverton

but under a scheme approved by the Charity Commissioners, sub-district, Peter Warren; deputy, Thomas Salter

the Guildhall is now converted into assembly and SCHOOLS:-

reading rooms and offices. The insignia of the now extinct NatiOnal (boys'), built in 1838 & rebuilt in 1874, for 133

corporation included two maces, four staves and two children; .average attendance, III; William Bak~r.

borough seals ; the maces, each 2 feet 10 inches in length master. Girls', for 98; average attendance, 98; Miss

and dating from r8gg, are wooden pales, with solid wooden Elizabeth Edge, mistress

heads, all painted and gilt, and surmounted by open arched British (mixed), built in 1878 for I65 children; average

crowns of gilt brass; the heads bear on one side the royal attendance, 105; Miss Lydia Bradley, mistress

arms, and on the other an eagle displayed, the symbol of Railway Station, Hale, Charles Harford, station master

the town; the staves, also of woo1, are 6 feet, 6 inches long, CARRIERS TO EXETEU..-l'arisb, mon. wed. & fri

13radninch. Norman John Connett Elizabeth (Mrs.), boot dealer
Connett James, draper & grocer
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Plummer George, Croft Hayes. Connett William, shoe maker

Atherton Rev. Edwd. Ernestn. A. [curate] Rowell John, Banbury house Crabb William Henry, boot maker,
Baker William, Becroft news agent & postmaster
Bidgood John Rowell John, jun. Manor house
Bowden Mi~s, Vennleigh Cuming C. T. & Son Limited, paper
Cuming Charles Thomas, Parkiancls Symons George, Stockwell manufacturers, Kensham mills
Cure Rev. Edward Cape! B.A. [vicar]
Drew Miss, College COMMERCIAL. Cuming Ernest Bagwell, paper manu-
Drew Mrs. Challise house facturer, see C. T. Cuq>ing & Son Lim
Drew Mrs. Kensham Adams Richard, shopkeeper
Greet Mrs. East End house Daniels l<'rank, carpenter
Hall William, Myrtle cottage Berry Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker Duckham John, farmer, Coombe
Hallett Charles Henry Dunn EdwinGeorge, wheelwt. &organist
Hepburn Thomas Hy. J.P. Dunmore ho Blackmoor Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Fisher William, shopkeeper
Hole William, Winham
Huish William Bathayes Fowler Mary Ann (Mrs.), beet retailer
Lak$ John, Palmer'l Bowles G• eorgc, farmer, Hawkaller
Lemin Rev. 'Robert Charles [llaptist] Frankpitt William, farmer, Tedbridge
Miller William Bradninch Branch of the Church of Glover John, builder
Morgan Thoma'.!, Marshalls Govier Ann (Mrs.), farmer,Fordishayes
Nicks Mrs England Temperance Society (Robert Hallett Charles Henry M.B. surgeon,

Roxburgh, sec) medical officer & public vaccinator
for Bradninch & Butterleigh districts,
Brimicombe Robert, watch maker Tiverton union
Ham William, farmer, Gt. Wborridge
Broom John, dairyman, Chamberhayes
H1ncock Matilda (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Burgess William, shopkeeper

Channon William, Bra.dninch Arms P.H

Cemetery (Thomas Salter, clerk to the

burial board)

Clapp Samuel; farmer, Billingsmoor

Clark Thomas, mason 1

Coles Waiter, farmer, Trinity

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BRADWORTHY. 75

Hawker Samuel, baker Penny Savings Bank,in connection with Webber·John, baker & farmer

Hayden Robert, farmet>", llow hill National school (W. Baker, sec) Webber John, jun. butcher

Haydon Mary Ann (Mrs.), baker Pitts Charles, farmer, Garlandshaies Wood John, farmer, Bagmore

Hillacre Daniel, butcher Quick Edward, miller (water), Nether· Wood John, jun. farmer, Beacon farm

Hole William, farmer, Winham stonbayes Woolway William, wheelwright

Hooper Henry, farmer, Pitt QuickE\iz&(Mrs.),dairymn.Paceycmbe Wreford William, farmer, Bagmore

Hooper James, farmer, Burnhaies Reed Willoughby Ernest, beer retailer Hale.
Hooper John, farmer, Trinity Rowell John, farmer, Manor house

Hore Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper H.owland Richard, mason Collins Charles Robert J.P. Strath Culrn

Hurley Jane (Mrs.), baker & grocer Rowland William, shopk~per Ogilvie Osmund, Hill side

Ireland Charles Henry, Castle inn Salter Tom Middleton, White Lion inn Roxburgh Robert

Jacobs William, farmer Salter Thom'l."l, chemist, druggist & Baker John, Railway hotel

James John, farmer, Chapelhayes gro(•er, wine & spirit merchant, & Cleave John, farmer, Hele Payne

Lake Thomas, tailor clerk to burial bo<~.rd & deputy Crouch Alfred Smale, goods manager~

Leach Harriett (Miss), dress maker registrar of births & deaths for Sih•er· Rail way station

Leach Henry, dairyman, Sheveyhaies ton sub-district, Tiverton union Dickson Archibald Annau, m'\nager tr>

Long John, watch maker & jeweller Shere Ambrose, farmer The Hele Paper Co. Limited

LyddDn Jane ~Mrs.), shopkeeper & Shere Thom1.s, farmer, Gingerland Hawkius Geo't'ge, beer retailer & shpkpiP-

marine store dealer Smith Robert, boot & shoe maker Hele Paper Co. Limited (Tha) (Jo1m.

Mardon Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Smith William, farmer, Trinity Horsburgh, sec.), 'Paper manuf.lc-

Martin Priscilta (Mrs.),Butchers' Arms Symons George, auctioneer & farmer, turers, Hele works ; goods, Hele sta-

P.H. & butcher Stockwell tion, G. W. R. ; telegrams, Hepburn,

Miller William, veterinary surgeon 1Thorn William, shopkeeper Hele

Mondy John & Henry, boot & shoe mas 'l'remlett Lncy Huxtable (Mrs.),poultry Horsburgh John, sec. to the Hele Paper-
eo. Limited
Mortimore Waiter, saddler dealer

Murch Clement Richards, farmer, Trimnell John, baker McFarlane John, engineer to the Hela

Flesterhayes Warren Peter, grocer & draper, col- Paper Co. Limited

Nicks Henry, farmer lector of poor rates & taxes & regis- Medland Richard, coal, salt, manure,

Nicks Brothers, builders trar of births & deaths for the Silver- lime, oil cake, corn, barley meal &

Norman Francis, tailor ton sub-district, 'fiverton union general merchant ; stores, Railway

Owen Noah, tin & zinc worker Webber Henry 'fhomas, saddler station ; & at S!lverton

Pa.rish John, carrier Webber James, blacksmith Ward & Co. coal, coke & manure mer-

Passmore Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress makr Webber James, butt.:her chants, Railway station

Passmore William, carpenter

BRADSTONE is 11. township and parish, on the old west doorway now reopened: there are So sittings. The

road between Tavistock and Launceston and on the Corn- register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1657;
wall border, 4 miles south from Lifton station on the marriages, 1656. The living is a rectory, average tithe

Launceston branch of the Great Western railway, 4i" south- rent-charge, £167; gross yearly value £264, with 64 acres

east from Launceston and 8 north-west from Tavistock, in of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held

the Western division of the county, Lifton hundred and since 1887 by the Rev. Neville George Murray Neville-

petty sessional division, Tavistock union, county court dis- Lawrence M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford. Bradstone Hall

trict of Launceston, rural deanery of Tavistock, arch- formerly a fine old old mansion, once the seat of the Cruwys
deaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of family, is now a farm house: the gateway, containing a
St. Nonne, supposed to have been rebuilt in the reign of lofty apartmen~, t.ogether with considerable and interesting

Henry VI. is an edifice principally in the Perpendicular ponions of the'original edifice, built by the Cloberys, still

style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, remain, and is well preser-ved. Frank Bradshaw esq..T.P.
south porch and an embattled western tower with crocketed ot Lifton Park, who is lord of the manor, and Re~inald
pinnacles containing 5 bells, all recast by Taylor of Oxford Kelly esq. D.L.,J.P. of Kelly, Lifton, are the principal land-
in 1827 and fitted in 1892 with chiming apparatus; the owners. The soil is light loam; subsoil, limestone. The

south doorway is Early English, but about 1888 the original chief crops are barley, oats and roots, but most of the land i5

Norman doorway was discovered. The church was restored in pasture; the area is x,3oo acres; rateable value, £1,501;
• in 1892, when the panelled timber and plaster roof was the population in x8gx was xoo•

renewed, the whole church re-seated, the chancel screen Sexton, John Longman.

replaced, choir stall and , a new pulpit erected and the Letters from Tavistock viA. Milton Abbot. The nearest

chancel embellished. During the operations, some ancient money order & telegraph offices are at Lifton & Vmn-

wall-painting was discovered which crumbled away when ceston

exposed to the air, but a large portion of the design was WALL LETTER Box, Kelly Arms, cleared at 3.20 p.m. week

copied by the rector. The old rood-loft doorway was also days only. The children of this parish attend the National

uncovered and a door has been placed in it as well as in the school at Kelly

Neville-Lawrence Rev. Neville George Fitze John, farmer, Holland Kneebone Evi, farmer, Pallas street
Murray JII.A. Rectory Hocking Martha (Mrs.), miller (water) Lovell Robert, farmer, Bawcombe
Stacey Thomas Turner, Kelly Arms
Bickle Richard, farmer, Bradstone hall & farmer
Colwill James, farmer, Coombe Kittow Orlando, blacksmith; res. Law- P.H. & farmer

Cory Charles, farmer, Tredown hitton

:SRADWORTHY is a large parish and village on the and Bible Christian chapels. There are many places in this

river Walden, 8 miles north-north-west from Holsworthy, neighbourhood with the affix "worthy," from the A.S.

where the nearest railway station is, and 14 south-west from toeorthig, a place warded or protected. In the parish o!

Bideford, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Brad worthy are many indications of Roman settlements.

Black Torrington, Holsworthy petty sessional division, The trustees of the late Mark Shephard e"lq. are lords ofthe

union & county court district, rural deanery of Holsworthy, manor, and the land b.as for the most part been divicled into

archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The small holdings. The s1il is various ; subsoil, clay. The

• church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient edifice of stone, chief cropfl are wheat, barley & oats. The area is 9,5.86

in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south acres; rateable value, £3,354 ; the population in x8gx was

transept, aisles, south porch and an embattled western 86r.

tower with crocketed pinnacles containing 5 bells, the first Sexton, William Jennings.

datin~ from 1835 and the rest from 1757 : it was restored PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
and re-seated in the year 1g4o, and a memorial window John Bray,sub-postmaster. Letters through Holsworthy
erected to the late Mrs. Hotchk~ys. There is a finely-carved arrive at 9· 15 a.m.; dispatched at 3· 15 p.m. Kilkhamp.
ton is the nearest telegraph office
Jacobean pulpit, and a stone font of Norman date, with a
A School Board of 5 members was formed Jan 7, 18Sx;
square basin supported on a central shaft surrounded by 4

smaller ones. In the chancel and other parts of the church
are remains of the ancient tiled floor : Lhere are 300 sittings. Elijah Westaway, clerk to the board
Board School (mixed), erected with residence for the master
The register dates from the year 1548. The living is a. in 1872, at the expense of Samuel L. L. Lucas esq. for
vicarage, with t.he chapelry of Pancras Wyke annexed, joint
average tithe rent-charge £221, joint net yearly vaiue £243, 175 children; average attendance, too; Waiter Rees,
• including 26 acres of glebe at Bradworthy and 8 at Pancras master

Wyke, with residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held CARRIERS:-

l!ince 1845 by the Rev. James Burdon Clyde B.A. of St. To Bideford, William Ha~'111an, tues. & s 1t
.John's College, Cambridge. There are charities of £2~ To Holeworthy, William Piper, thurs. & William Hayman

annually distributed at Christmas, Here are WesJeyan wed

';6 BRADWORTHY. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S

.A.shton Richard Waiter, Lake villa 1 Cornish Thos. farmer, Little Bexworthy Oke Richard, shoe tnaker, Village

~ennett John, Littleford cottage Cory Wm. Hayman, butcher & farmer Oke William, blacksmith

Bosanquet Theodore J.P. West Down ho Dayman James, farmer, Berriden farm Petherick Thomas & William, farmers,

·Clyde Rev. Jas. Burdon B.A. Vicarage Dayman John, farmer, Maddox Wrangworthy

Emtage Edmund Waiter, Cleverdon Dunn Jn. & Richd. farmers, Northdown Petherick William, farmer, Brexwort,hy

Freeman Vernon Richard Harcourt, Dymond Cleophas, farmr. Sth.Newland Petherick William, farmer, Jenns,

.Berridiln ball Dymond John, farmer, Cleverdon Alfordisworthy

Roberts Frederick Pascoe Emtage Edmund Waiter, surgeon, & Phelps John, farmer, Blatchborough

medical officer & public vaccinator, Piper Charles, farmer, South Newland

COMMERCIAL. N0. I district, Holsworthy union & Piper James, farmer, Heath ·

.Ashton Richard, farmer & landowner, Parkham district, Bideford union, Piper William, pork butcher & carrier

Alfordisworthy Cleverdon Pop ham Thomas, farmer, Sth. Whiteley

.Ashton Thomas, farmer,Higher Alford- Everson Thos. farmer, Gt. Dinworthy Rowtcliffe Thomas, farmer & land-

isworthy :Fisher John, shopkeeper &c. Littleford owner, Village

Barfitt Chas. Cottle, shopkpr. & farmer Gloyn Richard, farmer, Kimworthy Sanguin Richard, boot & ahoe maker

Barfitt Philip Rice & William Ghing, Grills Joseph, miller (water), Water- Sargent Richard, colt breaker & farmer

farmers, Atworthy land mill Seldon John, farmer, Lymscott

Barrett Charles, farmer, Kimworthy Hancock Thomas, cowkeeper, Moor Short Edward, farmer, Waterland

Barrett Wm. George, farmer, Horton's Hayman William, carrier Slee George & Sons, builders

Bennett John, jun. cowkeeper, Moor Heard Jn. farmer, South Redmainsford Stevens Mary( Mrs.)& Dl. farmers, Dural

Bennett Richard, farmer, West Ash Hawkings Rd.Gilbert,frmr.Nth.Newlnd Trewin Thomas & Sons, farmers &

Bennett Thos.farmer,Bradworthy moor Hawkings Wm. farmer, Hardsworthy machine owners, Looe

Blight Mary Grace (Mrs.), farmer, Hockridge Grenville, farmer & land- Trick & Westaway,farmers &; auctionrs

North Wordon owner, Little Dimworthy TurnerEdmund & Thos.farmrs.lnstable

Bond Paul, farmer, East Ash Holman Joseph, cattle dlr. Vicarage cot Vale Joseph, farmer, Little Hele

Bond Richard, miller (water) & tailor, Hopper Stephen, farmer, Youlsdon Vale William, farmer, Little Hele

Bradworthy mill Jennings Edmund, grocer & machinist Vanstone Thomas, farmer, Ryall

Boundy Richard, farmer, Heles Jennings Edgar, wheelwright Vanstone William, farmer, Ryall

Boundy William, farmer, Cross park Jennings Richard, farmer & landowner Wade John, blacksmith&frmr. Holyrood

Bray John, ironmonger &c. Post office Jennings Wm.carpenter & wheelwright Waiter Thos. farmer, Leyland cottage

~romell John, farmer, Cle\"erdon Jewell Samuel, mason WalterNorahGrace(Mrs. ),grocr.&drapr

Bromell William, tailor & draper Johns James, farmer Waiter William, blacksmith

Burrow John, farmer, Redmainsford Johns John, miller (water), Ash mill Ward Arscott, saddler

Cann John, farmer, Worden Jolliffe Charles, carpenter & farmer, Westaway Benjamin Yeo, carpP.nter

Cann William, cowkeeper Loat meadow Westaway Elijah, The Hotel, & monu-

Chubb Daniel, farmer, Holyrood Manning Wm. farmer, Little Instable mental mason

Cleave Charles, farmer, West Greadon MartinReuben,bootma.&ironmongr.&c Westaway John, wheelwright &c

Cleave Edmund, farmer, West S~owfrd Moore James, farmer, Little Ford Westaway Thomas, monumental mason

Cleave James, farmer, East Greadon Mugford Charles, farmer & m<tchinist, & seed &c. merchant

Coles William, farmer, Blatchborough North moor Wickett Lawrence, farmer, Selworthy

Colwill Thos. farmer, West Loat mead Oke Richard, farmer, Worden

BRAMPFORDSPEKE is a parish and village, on Earl of Iddesleigh C.B. is lord of the m!l.nor and principal

the river Exe, with a station on the Exe Valley branch landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and sand. The
(){the Great Western railway, smiles north from Exeter, in chief crops are corn and root crops. The area is I 1CJ9IA. IR.
the North Eastern division of the county, Wonford hundred 2P.; rateable value, £2,962 ss.; the population in 1891 was
and petty sessional division, St. Thomas' union, Exeter 350, includmg 27 in the Devon and Exeter reformatory for
county court district, rural deanery of Cadbury, and arch- boys.

deaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Peter, Sexton, Henry Staddon, jun.

rebu.ilt_in 1853, is an edifice of stone, in the Decorated style, PosT & 1.\'1. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
.conststm~ of chancel, nave, sout? tra~sept, south po~c~ and John Caryl, sub-postmaster. ·Letters received by foot
an emba.tled western tower With pm~acles, contammg a
cl?ck an<;}s ~~lls, all cast by T. Billbte m. 1755: the east paot s5t·5frpo.mm.ExTehteernaetar8eas.tmt.e. le&gra7p.h5 p.m. & are dispatched
office at Thorverton.
is

wmdow 1s stamed and there are. others b.earmg the arms of WALL Box opposite the school cleared at 4.so p.m ·
the lords of Cowley from the retgn of Kmg John to that of ' ' .
Edward VI. as well as those of the families of Treminet Devon & Exeter Reformatory School for Boys, available for
Speke, Gibbs and Pierce, lords of the manor of Brampford go, no~ containing ·(1893) 27; _Right Hon. the Ea~l of
from Henry I. to George n.: there are ISO sittings. The Iddesl~Igh C. B. chairman of dtrectors ; _F!ank Baile_y,
;register, dating from the year 1739, and existing in 1 g31, has 24 U~10n road, E:ceter, hon. sec. :. Wdham Harr1s,
since been destroyed. The hving is a vicarage, average tithe e~permtendent ; .Mtss Ma~d M. Har,rls, ~atron
rent-charge £ 149, net yearly value £ 153, with residence and NatiOnal S_chool (mtxed), "":Ith masters reSidence attached,
40 acres of glebe in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and erected m 1867, for 72 chtldren ; average attendance, so;

held since I882 by the Rev. Thomas Blundun, of St. John Porter, master .

Augustine's College, Canterbury. The charities amount to Railway Station, Alfred Tucker, station master

£13 I3S. and are distributed in bread and money. The CARRIER.-Mrs. Lydia Brookes to Exeter, tues. & fri

PRIVATE RESIDE~T.s. Bowler Sarah (Mrs), shopkeeper Hosegood John, farmer, Woodrow

.Beedell Henry, Woodslea Brewer William, farmer, Sowden farm Humphreys Richard, carpenter

&llew Miss, The Cottage Brookes Mrs. Lydia, carrier Johnson Robert, farmer, Chamberlains

Hlundun Rev. Thomas Lvicar] Caryl John, tailor, Post office Leach Jas.gardener to the MissesFinla.y

Burn-Mnrdoch Major Jn. R.E. Bornhill Corry Nicholas, mason Osmond John, farmer, Woodrow

.Carter Miss, Home Living Davy John, farmer & landowner, Phillips William, laundry, Mt.Pleasant

.Cowan John Joseph, Pynes cottage Norton farm Porter John, schoolmaster

Date Joseph, Butham house Devon & Exeter Reformatory School fur SandersEd win,gardener to Mrs.Gamlin

Finlay Misses, The Avenue Boys (William Harris, superi1.ten- Southcott Richard, cooper

Gamlen Mrs. Brampford house dent), Brampford wood Staddon Charles, Agricultural inn, &
Hatris William, Brampford wood Ewens Daniel, baker
black~;~mith

Landon Misses Chamberlains ll'ry William, mason Staddon Henry, shoe maker

Osmond John, Woodrow Godsland Richard, carpenter Staddon James, thatcher

H·urisWilliam,superintendent of Devon Staddon Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. & Exeter Reformatory School for Syme.s Frederick, farmer

Batting Thos. farmer, HigherWoodrow Boys, Brampford wood Yowler John, grocer

BRANSCOMBE is a scattered village and parish on the tower, which is Late Norman, and contains s bells: the

oeoast, in a picturesque valley, surrounded by lofty hills, 4 chancel is Early Decorated: in the north transept are some

miles south-by-west from Seaton station on the Seaton ancient and curious monuments, including one with small

branch of the London and South Western railway, 6 east kneeling effigies to Joan ('fregarthin) and her two husbands,

'from Sidmouth and IO south from Honiton, in the East- John Kelleway esq. and John Wadham of Merrifield esq. ~

ern division of the county, Colyton hundred, Honiton by the latter she was the mother of Nicholas Wadham, the

union, petty sessional division and county court di!!trict, founder in I6Io, through his wife, of Wadham College,
rural deanery of Ottery and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford : at the back are the figures of I9 children, 14 of the

Exeter. 'fhechurch of St. Winifred is a cruciform building Kelleway and s of the Wadham family, and above are the

cf stone. in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chan- arms of Tregarthin, Kelleway, Wadham and others; the in-

eel, nave, transepts, peculiar as standing to the west of the scription, now obliterated, is given in Prince's" Worthies,''

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BRATTON CLOVELLY. 7i

and shows that she died in Sept. 1581 : there are 457 sittings: early potatoes, which are grown principally on the slopes of

in the churchyard is a tombstone to Joseph Braddick, d. the cliffs facing the sea. The area is 3,422 acres of land and

1673, an ancient stone coffin, and a stone with incised cross. 65 of water; rateable value, £3,503 ; the population in 1891

The register of baptisms dates from the year 1539 ; mar- was 742.

riages, 1545 ; burials, 1573. The living is a vicarage, aver- Parish Clerk and Sexton, John Parrett,

age tithe rent-charge £178, net yearly income £240, with PosT 0FFICE.--Ueorge Butter, sub-postmaster. Letters

residence and II acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and through Axminster; delivery 8.5 a.m. .; dispatched at

Chapter of Exeter, and held since 1872 by the Rev. Robert 4.40 p.m. to Sidmouth, week days olily. Beer is the

Swansborough B.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. nearest money order & telegraph otlice. Postal orders are

Here is a small Wesleyan chapel. In the neighbourhood are issued here, but not paid. WALL LETTER BoxEs (near

quarries of excellent freestone. Many females are still em- the Vicarage), cleared at 4.25 p.m. & Street, cleared at

ployed in making the Honiton lace, but this industry is in a 4.50 p.m. week days only

decaying condition. The Dean and Chapter of Exeter, Henry National School (mtxed), built in 1878, for 166 children;

Ford esq. who is lord of the manor, and C. Langdon esq. average attendance, about 46 boys, 32 girls & 48 infants ;

are chief landowners. The soil is mixed; the subsoil is Miss Maria Adlam, mistress

limestone and chalk. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and CARRIER TO HONITON.-Ephraim Ferryman, sat

Cooper George, East cot •

Farrant William John, farmer, Gays Pike Emanuel, farmer, Sea Side farm

Ford Henry J.P. Lower house Gill John, carpenter Pike Henry, farmer, Berry

Ford Mrs. Hazlewood house Gill Samuel, baker Pike William, farmer, Hole

Ford William Braddick, Gays Gill Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bridge Pile John, farmer, Edge Rarton & Hook-

Swansborough Rev.Robt.:B.A. Vicarage Gill Thomas, Fountain Head inn noli & Rockenhayne farms

Tucker Benjamin Woolley, Barnells Hill Hugb, dairyman, Dawes-weston Power Amos, farmer, Elverway

Tucker Misses, Barnells Hill Samuel, farmer; Weston Power Edgar, dairyman, Culverhole

White John, Marine cottage Hntchings Emanuel, dairyman, Higher Real William, chief boatman in cparge,

Williams Mrs. Church Bulstone Coast Guard house

COMMERCIAL. Layzell Charles, blacksmith Richards Luke, farmer, Cotte

Leonard Ellen (Mrs.), butcher & farmr Rosewell J onn. dairyman, Rockenhayne

Ackland Wm. farmer, Higher Weston Lockyer George, shoe maker Salter Charles, farmer, Higher house

Burrough William Harding,farmer,Pitt Osborne Chas. farmer, Lower Bulstone Salter John, farmer, Friar's park

Butter George, baker, Post office Otton Thomas, tailor Salter Robert, farmer, Woodhead

Clarke Chas. Mason'sArmsP.H. & carpntr Otton William, shopkeeper Salter 'fhomas, farmer, Watercombe

Coombs Samuel, shopkeeper Parrett Henry, blacksmith Selley William Brown, cattle dealer

Dawe Charles farmer & miller (water), Parrett Henry, shoe maker SomersSusan(Miss),frmr.ChurchLiving

Woodhouse Parrett John, shoe maker Tedbury Joseph, farmer, Cox's farm

Dean Enoch, shoe maker Ferryman Ephraim, carrier Tueker John & Co. honiton lace manfrs

Dowell John, shopkeeper Pike Mary Jane (Mrs.), miller (water) Ward Thomas, shopkeeper

Ellis John, farmer, Lower Weston & farmer White John, artist, Marine cottage

BRATTON CLOVELLY (or CLEVELLY) is a village • Fairs are held

lage, one at Boasley and one at Rexon Cross.
and extensive parish, 3i miles south from Ashbury and North here on the second Tuesday in May and the first after Octobel"

Lew station on the Holsworthy branch of the London and 19th. Henry de Bracton or Bretton, a celebrated lawyer

South Western railway, and 9 west-by-south from Oke- and judge (II85-1267) and author of "De Legibus et Con-

hampton, in the Western division of the county, Lifton hun- suetudmibus Anglire," the best of judicial classics, is sup-

dred and petty sessional division, Okebampton union and posed to have been born in this parish. Mrs. Manning,

county court district, rural deanery of Okehampton, arch~ Thomas Brown and William James Harris esq. J.P. and Mrs.

deaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Symmons are the principal landowners. The trustee.s of the

Mary the Virgin is a building of stone, in the Early English late T. E. Manning esq. J.P. are lords of the manor. Gale-

and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south house belongs to Mr, Brown, of Higher Slade, Okehampton ;

porch and a fine embattled western tower with pinnacles, Boasley, to Horatio Carlyon esq.; Metherell belongs to Mrs.

containing 6 bells, all cast in 1767: the nave is Early De- Gorle ; Ellacott, which formerly belonged to Earl Morley,

cm;ated, datin_go from about 1375; the chancel and base of is now the property of W. J. Harris esq. of Halwill manor;

the tower are Early English; the font is Norman: two win- Higher Vowden belongs to T. Brown ; Banbury, originally

dows in the vestry contain ancient stained glass, including Burnaby, belonged to the ancestors of the late Col. Fred

the arms of the Barnby family; the other windows have Burnaby R.H.G. killed in the Soudan, now to H. Carlyon esq.
modern stained glass as memorials to Thomas Ellis Mann-
·c. B. Woollcombe esq. and A. Carpenter esq. own land here.

ing and his relativ:es; the window in the tower is a memo- The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are

rial to Oliver Veale Pengelly,.. formerly of this parish: in 1892 wheat, oats and barley. Area, 8,3I6A. OR. 5P.; ra~eable

the church was thoroughly restored and reseated in oak, and value, £3,412 ; the population in 1891 was 487.

a carved oak pulpit erected at the cost of Mrs. Manning of PosT Ol.<'J<'lCE.-Nicholas Palmer, sub-postmaster. Letters

Eversfield in this parish,,who also presented a richly-carved received from Lew Down R.S.O. North Devon, thence to

alabaster reredos, and relaid the chancel floor with highly- Bratton Clovelly by foot post, at 7·55 a. m.; dispatched

polished Devonshire and Irish marble as a memorial to her 5 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The

sister Mrs. Mary Yonge, who died in 1891 : the nave will seat nearest money order office is at Lew Down & telegraph

r8o persons. The register dates from the year 1555. The office at Ashbury & North Lew railway station

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge£340, net yearly A School Board of 5 members was formed July 31, 1874 ;

income £412, including 140 acres of glebe, with residence, Nicholas Palmer, clerk to the board & attendance officer

in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and held since 1865 by Board School (mixed), erected in 1877, for qo children ;

the Rev. Edward Seymour M. A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. average attendance, 63 ; George Howard, master ; Mre

There are three Bible Christian chapels here-one in the vil- Betsy Howard, sewing mistress

Manning Mrs. Eversfield Higgins Oliver, tailor Rice James, farmer, Moorstone

Seymour Rev. Edward M.A. Rectory Hortop John, farmer, Brockscombe Rice W1lliam, farmer, South Beazle

COMMERCIAL. Hortop Henry & Son, wheelwrights & Roberts James, blacksmith

Bailey John, farmer, East Banbury carpenters Roberts John, blacksmith

Bowden John, farmer, Little Burrow Jackman Roger, farmer, Burrow Rogers Martin Thomas, farmer, West

Bray William, farmer, Coombe Park Lang Thomas, farmer, Brockscombe Banbury

Brealy Richard, farmer, Risdon Lovell John, farmer, South Barton Sampson Samuel, miller (water)

Brown John (trustees of), landowner & Lovell William, farmer, Menda Shopland Thos. farmer, Bratton town

farmer, Lower Voaden Luxton Richard, farmer, Breazle Sleeman Thomas, farmer, Calehouse

Brown Thomas, landowner & farmer, Maynard James, farmer, Blagrove Smale Henry, shopkeeper

Lower Voaden Metheral John, far~ bailiff to Mrs. Smallacombe Jabez,tailor & shopkeeper
Spry Richard, blacksmith, Grindhill
ChambersBenj.Clifford,frmr. Northcmb Symmons, Wrixhill

Davey Matthew, boot & shoe maker Paige George, farmer, Headstone Stacey Shadrack, Clovelly hotel

Dawe William, farmer, Court Barton Palmer Nicholas, tailor, Post office Tickle Samuel, farmer & landowner,

Dennis Thomas, farmer, Broadcroft Palmer Rt. Gath, farmer, Blackbroom Langworthy

Gorle Frances (Mrs.), farmer, Methe- Palmer Thomas, farmer, North Combe Voaden Stephen, farm bailiff to Horatio

reil tower Pengelly John, shoe maker Carlyon esq. Voasley

Hearn Philip, farmer & landowner, Pethick Thomas, farmer, Fursdon Westlake Jane (Mrs.),farmer,Grindhill

Swaddledown Phear James, saddler & harness maker White John, farmer, Bangers

HeggadonStephen,farmer,Brockscombe Pine Samuel, blacksmith , Wivell James, farmer, Reed

Heggadon John. farmer, Chelmsworthy Pollard William, bailiff to Alfred Car- \Vi\·ell Willia!D, farmer, Burrow

Heggadon Samuel, farmer, Re1stone pentar esq. Bannadon

78 BRATTON FLEMING. DEVONSHIRE. ' ( KELLY'S

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J3RATTON FLEMING is a parish with a village Thomas Dyke Acland hart. P.c.,n.L.,J.P. of Killerton, Mr.

standing on an acclivity, 7 miles east-north-east from Barn- W. C. Bowden and the rector are chief landowners. About

staple, in the North Western division of the county,Braunton 1840 a considerable inclosure of waste land took place. The

hundred and petty sessional division, Barnstaple union and soil is clayey ; the subsoil is clay slate. 'rhe greater part is

county court district,rural deanery of Sherwill, archdeaconry grass land. The area is 5175I acres; rateable value, £6,o8o;
of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. the population in 1891 was 499· The hamlets are :~HAxToN,

Peter is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular rt miles south; BENTON, 2 miles south-east; LEWORTHY,

style, comisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch 2 miles east; STOWFORD, 3 miles north; NIGHTACOT1 1j
and a western tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, cast miles north. .

in 1792: there are 240 sittings. The register dates from the Sexton, George P. Barrow

:year 1673. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge PosT & T. 0.-William Warren, sub-postmaster. Letters

£330, net yearly value £538, including 257 acres of glebe, through Barnstaple by mail cart received at 8.20 a. m. ; dis-

With residence, in the gift of Caius College, Cambridge, and patched at 5.40 p.m. The nearest money order office is at

held since 1875 by the Rev. Philip John Wodehouse M.A. Barnstaple. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

late fellow of that college. There is a Baptist chapel here National School (mixed), built in 184o, for 100 children;

.and another at Stowford, and also one for Bible Christians. average attendance, 82; John Henry Baker, master; Mrs.

A fair is held on the rgth of August yearly for cattle. Colonel Sarah Baker, mistress

.Sir Arthur Chichester bart. J.P.,D.L. of Youlston, who is lord CARRIBBS TO RARNSTAPLE.-William Bowden, tues. fri. &

()f the manor, T. Carthew esq. J.P. Col. the Right Hon. Sir sat.; William Britton, tues. & fri

Brownscombe Mrs. Bcllevue Gill William, wheelwright Skinner Lewis, farmer, Chumwill

Daniel Jabez · · Greenslade William, Oxon house Smith 'rom, farmer, Ridgegate

Hill Mrs Heal James, shoe maker Squire James, farmer, Brattondown

Wodehouse Rev.Philip Jn.M.A. Rectory Heal William, farmer, Nightacot Stanbury William, thatcher

COMMERCIAL. Hill Albert, farmer, Town farm Symons William, farm bailiff to Mr.

Arthur William, butcher & shopkeeper Hill William, farmer, South Haxton Richard Clarke Narracott

Baker John, farmer Hunt John, farrier &castrator Tallyn William, farmer & assistant

Barrow Henry, farmer, Cape Hunt Thomas, farmer, Southacott overseer, Rye park

Beard James, farmer, Nightacot Kerslake Saml.wheelwright &carpenter Tucker John, farmer, Lower Haxton

lleard William, farmer, Stowford Lavercombe John, blacksmith Tucker Richard, farmer, Down

Bowden William, carrier & farmer Lewis James, farmer, Stowford Tucker Richard, tailor

Bowden Wm. Crang, farmer,Nightacot Mole Henry, miller (water),Bratton mill TurnerWilliam,farmer,ChelphamBartn

Britton William, carrier Parkin John, tailor Watts William, saddler

Eurge James, farmer, Benton Pickard Abraham, Friendship Warren William,shopkeeper, Post office

Burge John, farmer, Benton Pyke George Henry Beara Webber George, carpenter

Burge Willfam, farmer, Lenworthy RiddThos.Dennis,yeoman,Parsonagefm Welch John, farmer

Crang George, farmer, Haxton Middle Rowe John, farmer, Haxton Down Welch Wil!iam, White Hart P.H

Daniel James, farmer, Oxen park Skinner Alexander, farmer, Honacot Westcott Henry, farmer, Fernham

Gill John, blacksmith Skinner Henry, Sharland Yeo William, farmer, New Huuse

:BRAUNTON is a parish and village, on the banks of a for the Brethren. The charities amount to [20 yearly.

.rivulet, with a station on the Ilfracombe branch of the Near the sea is a large sandy tract qf land called" Braunton

.South Western railway, 217 miles from London, 2 miles Burrows," abounding with rabbits: here is also a lighthouse

from the coast and Taw estuary, si north-west from Barn- and a lifeboat station. The Earl of Devon, the trustees of

'Staple, 8 south from Ilfracombe, and is the head of the the late Lord Rolle (d. 1842) and the Ecclesiastical Commis-

petty sessional division, in the North Western division of the sioners are lords of the manor; and Edward Chichester

.county, Braunton hundred, Barnstaple union and county Incledon-Webber esq.; Sir William Robert Williams bart.

<:ourt district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Barnstaple n. L. of Upcott House, Barnstaple; Augustus Langham

.and diocese of Exeter. 'fhe church of St. Brannock is a Christie esq. of 78 Gloucester crescent, Hyde Park w; Mrs.

large and ancient building of stone, in the Early English Basset and Mrs. Mock are the chief landowners. The soil

and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel and nave is sandy loam; the subsoil is clayey. The chief crops are

and transepts, north and south porches and a tower on the wheat, barley, potatoes and root crops. 'l'he a.rea is 10,473

:South side with spire, containing a clock and 8 bells: the acres of land and 1,5Io of water; rateable value, £n,911;

nave has a panelled oak roof of considerable span, repaired the population in 1891 was 2,171.

about 1850, and exhibiting on one of its panels a carved The hamlets are :-BEARCHARTER, 2 miles north-east;

representation of a sow with a litter of pigs, alluding to a PIPACoTT, 2i' east; HALLSINGER, 2 north-east; WINSHAM,

tradition that St. Brannock, who preached Christianity here rt north-east; KNOWLE, f north ; NETHERCOTT, Ii north-

A.D. 3001 was directed, in a dream, to build a church on the west; SAUNTON, Ji north-west, and LOBB, It miles north-

spot where he should first meet such a group : there is an west.

interesting palimpsest brass, having on one side the effigy of Sexton, Philip Reed. r
a knight in bascinet and camail, c. 1200, and on the other PosT, M, 0. & •r. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Offi~

the effigy of a lady xneeling at a prie-dieu; this is inlaid - (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. North

aboye a stepped cross incised in a large stone slab, and at Devon added). Mrs. Mary Ann Ling, postmistress.

the foot is a brass inscription to Lady Elizabeth Bowcer Lettersreceivedat7a.m. &4.1op.m.;dispatchedat2.15

{Bourchier), daughter of John, 1st Earl of Bath, and wife & 7.25 p.m. No post onsunday

of Edward Chichester esq. ob. 24th August, 1548 : the WALL LETI'ER BoxEs, Church street, cleared 2. ro p.m. &

church contains some of the finest examples of wood carving 1·5 p.m. ; no collection on sunday: Knowle, cleared 9·35

in Devonshire, especially on the bench ends in the nave: in a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; no collection on sunday

t8S7 the nave of the church was new-roofed and the bells ScHooLs:-

Tehung, with the addition of two new ones, at an expense of A. School Board of 5 members was formed in 1S7r; G.

.£r,ooo, under the direction of Mr. William White F.S.A,. Mills, Barnstaple, clerk to the board; William Lee,

.architect, of London : the south transept, formed by the Caen l!treet, attendance officer

ground storey of the tower, has also been restored to the Board, built in 1872-3 at a cost of about £1,400, for 400

memory of Mr. Edward Mock by his widow: a new heating children; average attendance, uo boys, 85 girls & 120

apparatus was fixed in x8g3, the cost being derrayed by sub- infants ; Rkhard Melhuish Hayman, master; Miss Ehza-

scription: there are 450 sittings. The register dates from beth Jenkins, mistress; Mrs. Pike, infants' mistress

the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, average yearly Chaloner's Endowed School (boys), which has an endow-

value from tithe rent-charge £4o6, with residence and 40 ment of £83 Ios. derived from land, was re-organized in

acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and held 1875 under a new scheme framed by the Education

since 1890 by the Rev. Edward Robert Gotto M.A. of Trinity department & after being <;losed from r889 was re

College, Cambridge. On a neighbouring hill are some opened in Sept. 1891 ; John Langdon Ralph B.A. master

remains of an ancient chapel, said to have been built by St. Railway Station, Thomas Ridge, station master

Brannock, and known as "St. Anne's chapel." Here are CARRIERS 'J'o BARNSTAPLE.-George Gammon, Heanton st.

Congregational and Wesleyan chapels and a meeting room tues. thurs. fri. & sat. ; & Geo. Clarke, North st. daily

PRIV.\TE RESIDENTS, Cuningharne Alexander Kennedy, Edwards Mrs. John, Sea View terrace

Alford Le'\\·is, Caen street Buckland house Ffinch John Parkinson, Tyspane ,
Alford Mrs. West Hill house
Davies Rev. David [Cong.], East street Fitzmorris George, Wrafton road
Alford Mrs. Henry, Caen street
Bamford Mrs. Sea View terrace Day George, Hill Manor house Gatensbury Miss, Wrafton road
Besley Mrs. North street
('apern Edward, Wrafton road · Day James, West Hill house Gotto Rev.Edward Robert M.A. [vicar),
Chichest~:r Misfl, Skir cottage
Downing Mrs Prospect lodge Vicarage

Drake Miss, Silnr street Hallltt Henry, Curveacre

Du1m l\:!:i~s, Frog L ai.e lill Hamlyn Samt:ell\1-orn:nn,Wrafton read

D!RECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. 0

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Hammond Mrs-. Franklin cottage Elliott J n. Palmer,blacksmith,Church st Mock Charles, shoe maker, East street:

Horwood Thomas Bird, Chapel street Elliott Wm. Howe, butcher, Church st Moore Henry, mason, Hill side

Incledon-Webber Edward Chichester, Evans Mary (Miss), shopk.pr.Church st Mortimer Thomas Pick,farmer,South st

St. Brannocks Evans Robert, shopkeeper, Church st Mugford Bros. (Frank Downey, man-

J ulian Robert, Prospect cottage Evans John, blacksmith, Town's end ager), wine & spirit merchants, East st
Kelsey Mrs. Daniel, South street
Gammon George, carrier, Heanton st New inn, family & commercial hotel &

Lane Stephen Orson, Hill's court Gard Henry, farmer, Park farm · posting house (Wm. Darnell, propr)

Mason J ames, Beacon hill Geen William, thatcher, Church street Newcombe George, shoe maker,Millstile

Mitchell :Mrs. Heanton street Hames John, family & dispensing Northey Rd. Hy.RedLion P.H.Cross tree
Page Thomas, Sea View termce • chemist, Medical hall
Palmer William Rmale, farmer,South st

Passmore John, Folly Hancock. George, blacksmith, Knowle Parker Elizh. (Mrs.), lodg. ho. South st

Peard Mrs. Brookfield house Hancock James, mason, Cross tree Perkins Frederick, solicitor, Church st

Perkins Frederick, Church street Hancock Richard, carpenter, Knowle Perryman John, farmer,Marstage farm

· Prout Bamuel Gillespie,SeaView terrace Hardmg Ann(Mrs. ),shopkeeper, Knowle Perryman William, blacksmith• East st

Ralph John Langdon B.A. Wrafton rd Harding Geo. farmer, Winsham down Pettle Geo. grocer & draper, Church st

Heed George, Reed villa Hartnoll Wm.Perryman,frmr. Chapel st Popham William, shoe maker, West hill

Russ :Mrs. Caen house Hartnoll Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Pyke John, farmer, South street

Slade-King Edwyn John, Bloomfield ho 'fown farm, North street. Quance William, farmer, P1pacott

Symmons Mrs. Sea View terrace Hartnoll George Perryman, farmer, Radford Fk. Black Horse P.H.Church st

Tamlyn Peter Horden, Lower Bood North street Reed John, farmer, Chivnor

'l'hompsonCpt. WilloughbyFrnk.TheFirs Heddon Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Cross tree Reed Richard, mason, Heanton street

COMMERCIAL. Heddon John, master mariner, East st Reed William, boot maker, Church st

AcklandJas.EbringtonArmsP.H.Knowle Heddon Philip, farmer, Scur Reed William Alfred,shoe ma.Church st

Ackland.Mary(Miss),shpkpr.Heanton st Hernaman James, farmer, Pippacott Rogers Wm. master mariner, East st

Andrew Philip, farmer, Fullabrook HopkinsSusan(Mrs.),milliner,Church st Scamp Philip, farmer, Nethercott

Ashton Samuel, farmer, Folly farm Howard George Henry, baker, Caen st Scamp MaryAnn(Mrs. ),butcber,Caen st

Ashton Thomas, farmer, Score Howard William, baker, Church street Shipwrecked Mariners' & Fishermen's

Atkins George, wheelwright, North st Huxtable 'fhomas, farmer, North street Society ( W. Manaton, sec.), Church st

Atkins Richard, farmer & assistant Incledou Joseph, coal dealer, Bias lane Slee John, carpenter, S.outh street

overseer, North street Isaac James, butcher, Cross tree Slee Thomas, grocer, South street

Avery Philip, farmer, Knowle Isaac John, shopkeeper, Church street Slee William, Ilfracombe inn

Baker Edward; hair dresser,Caen street Isaac Robert, farmer, Lower Winsham Smaldon William, farmer, South Lobb

Balment Matthew, carpenter, North st Isaac Wm. farmer & butcher, Cross tree Snow Charles, farmer, Upcott

Bidder Robert, farmer, North street Isaac William, machinist, Wrafton road Snow John Lock, farmer, Bood

Braley Thomas, farmer, High Tenne- J ohnsEdwin, far mer&warrener,Saunton StaddonGeorge, Railway hotel, &potato

ment, Halsinger Johns William, farmer, West Saunton dealer, South street

Bray Richard, shopkeeper, Heanton st Jury Richard, farmer, East street Stanbury Richard, farmer & miller

Brimley James Isaac, carpenter,East hl Knott Frederick, watch maker, Caen st (steam &water),Headon&Knowle mls

Brooks John Joce, grocer, Caen street Knott Helen (Mrs.), coffee rms. Caen st Stanley · Harriet (Mrs.), tobacconist,

Burge William, farmer, Halsinger LabbettWm.frmr.& blacksmith,Knowle Caen street •·

Cann Waiter, farmer, Ashbarton Lake Albert William, baker, Caen st Symonds Charles Hartnoll, corn, seed &

Chichester Jn. master mariner,South st Lamprey George, beer retailer, North st manure merchant, Church street

Chic::tester Wlt.mast.marnr. Wrafton la Lamprey Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.), shop- Symonds William, dairyman, Church st

Chugg Geo. master marmer, South st keeper, North street Symons Charles, farmer, Buckland

Chugg John, dairyman, Wrafton road I;amprey Philip, farmer, North street Taylor John, butcher, East street

Cla.rke George, carrier, North street Lamprey Robert, wheelwright, North st Thomas Wm. Berry, grocer~ Church st

Cousins George, beer retailer, South st Lamprey Wm. coal dealer, North street Tucker George, farmer, Vicar's Lobb
Cousins Thomas, farmer, North Lobb Lane Stephen Orson, surgeon,& medical Tucker Henry, farmer, E:J.St Saunton

Darracott Wm. Hy. ironmgr.Church st officer & public vaccinator No. 6 dis- Tucker Hugh Pitts, farmer, Lobb

Davis Henry, stone m-:1son, East hill trict, ,Barnstaple union, Hill's l'ourt Tucker James, farmer, Saunton court

Dennis James, farmer, Halsinger Lane Wm. farmer, Broadgate, East st Tucker John Yeo,shoe dealer,Cross ttea

Devon & Cornwall Banking Co. Limited Laramy William, farmer, North Lobb Tucker Philip, farmer, East street
(branch) (Henry Thomas Besley, Ling Mary Ann (Mrs. ),grocer & draper, Vowles John, tailor &c. Church straet

manager; attendance, thursday I to Post office, Cross tree Wadland Samuel, farmer, Nethercott.

· 4 p.m.), Church street; draw on Lee William, school attendance officer, Warren John, farmer, Nethercott

Barclay, Bevan & Co. Lombard street, Caen street Watts James, master mariner, East st

London E c Lovering Charles Hartnoll, farmer Watts John, farmer, Pippacott

• Drake Alfred,butcher &farmer,South st Cross farm Webber John, tailor, East street

Drake Fras. master mariner, Heanton st Luscombe George, farmer, North st Westren Maria (Miss), draper, Caen st

Dyer John, farmer, Silver street Manaton William, woollen draper, White Samuel Chas. gamekeeper to Sir

Dyer Louis William, farmer, Fairlinch tailor & outfitter, Church street W. R. Williams hart. Kennells

Easton Samuel, farmer, Broadford May John Hooper, saddler, Church st Williams John, grocer, Caen street

Elliott Frank, hrmer, Beer Charter Mitchel William, beer retailer, Caen st Yeo Thomas, farmer, Luscott Barton

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HIGH BRAY is a parish and village on the eastern ac· There are charities of £7 rgs. yearly value. . The Rt~ Hon.
divity of the valley of the river Bray, which is here crossed Sir Thomas Dyke Acland bart. P.c., J.P. who is lurd of the

by a bridge of one arch, and is 6 miles north-by-west manor, and George Radley esq. are the chief landowners. The

from South Molton, 9 east from Barnstaple, and 4 north soil is loamy : subsoil, skillett rock. The chief crops ara

from Filleigh station on the Somerset and Devon branch of oats, roots ami pasturage. The acreage is 4,258 ; · rateable

the Great Western railway, in the North Western division value, £2,824; the population in 1891 was 226.

tJf the county, Sherwill hundred, Braunton petty sessional BRAYFORD is a hamlet, partly in Charles, t mile west, on
division, Barnstaple union and county court district, rural the west bank of the Bray, over which is a bridge of two
deaneTy of Sherwill, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese arches.
of Exeter. The church of All Saints is an edifice of stone, Eexton, George Martin. ·

in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave,
aisles; transept, south porch and an embattled western PosT OFFICE, Brayford.-Francis Huxtable, sub-postmaster.
tower containing 5 bells: a new treble bell was added in Letters through South Molton arrive at 9·55 a.m.; dis-
1892 : the font is very ancient and there is an external patched at 3.40 p. m. South Molton is the nearest money
sodile : the church affords 180 sittings. The register order &; Bratton Fleming the nearest telegraph office
dates from the year x6o5. The living is a rectory, average WALL LETTER Box, at the church, cleared at 3.25 p.m

tithe rent-charge £279, net yearly value £360, with resi- Undenominational School (mixed), built in x871, at the ex-

dence and 91 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Right Hon. Sir pense of Rir 'f. D. Acland bart. for So children; average

·r. Dyke Acland hart. P.c. and held since x8go by the Rev. attendance, 63; John carter, master; Mrs. Annie Carter,
Charles Probart Whitaker M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. as~istant mistress ··
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)Vhitaker Rev.Chas.ProbartM.A.Rectory Parminter Mary (Mrs.), frmr.Fullaford Skinner Eliza Pfrs.), farmer, North

COMMERCIAL. Radley George, yeoman, Ovis farm Bray mill

narrow Henry, farmer, Kedworthy Rattenbury William, farmer, Rockleigh Sladel' William, farmer, Hall

Brooks John, farmer, \fhitefield Robins John, farmer, Lydcott • Smith Jeremiah, farmer, Natsley

llur~e John, farmer, South Bray mill Rock Philip, farmer, Gratton Squire John, farmer, Lydcott.

Huxtable Fras. blacksmith, Post office Seldon Thomas, carpenter, Bray cross Thorne Edwin, farmer, Braytown farm

Moule George, farmer, Whitetield Skinner John, farmer, Rock's head Thorne J:wob, farmer, Lower hall

80 BRENDON. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S

BRENDON is a. parish and smaH picturesque village those of Lyndale. The interest on £xoo left by Miss Tom- •

on the borders of Somersetshire and Exmoor, and in the kins is distributed at Christmas to the deserving poor. Col.
immediate ne'ghbourhood of the sources of the Exe and Sir Frederic Winn Knight K.c.n., J:.P., D.L. of Simonsbattl,
Lyn, 4 miles south-ea&t from Lynton, 20 north-east from, Exmoor, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The
Bamstaple, in the North Western division of the county, soil is stony. The chief crops are oats and pasture. The
Sherwill hundred, Braunton petty sessional di,·ision, Barn- parish contains 6,733 acres, of which 4,000 is uninclosed
staple union and county court district, rural deanery of moor land; rateable value, {,2,320; the population in 1891
Sherwill, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. was 294.
· The church of St. Brendan is an ancient building of stone This parish comprises the following hamlets, viz. : Scores.
in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, down, 2 miles west; Cheriton, 2 south-west; Bridgball, 2

north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower, south-east; Ashford, 1 west; Coombsfoot, t mile east; Lee-

with pinnacles, containing 4 bells: there are two stained ford, 2 north-east; Malmsmead, 2 east; Tippacott, xt

windows and a brass erected as memorials to Charles, 3rd south-east; Slocombeslade, 2! east-by-south, and Shilstone,

Baron Tenterden K.C.B. ob. Sept. 22, 1882: there are 120 I south-east.

sittings. The register dates from the year 1610. The living PosT 0FFICE.-Geo. Lock, sub-postmaster. Letters through
is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge£112, net yeal'ly value Barnstaple via Lynton, arri\·e 12 noon ; dispatched 2.25
£r7o, including 44 acres of glebe, with residence, in the p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office at
gift of Colonel Sir Frederic Winn Knight K.c.n. and held Lynton. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid
since 1884 by the Rev. Herbert Edward Ayre H.A. of the National School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 6o children;
University of London. 'l'he valley of Brendon is extremely average attendance, 34; William B. Bacon, master; Mrs.
beautiful, and its general features correspond strongly to Bacon, mistress

Ayre Rev. Herbert Edwd. B.A. Rectory Floyd Willi'am, carpenter Litson John, farmer, Cheriton

Chanter Misses, 1\'Iillslade French Anthony, farmer, Malmsmead Lock George, grocer, Post offiGe

French John, farmer, Malmsmead Lock Thomas, farmer, Cranescombe

COMMERCIAL. French R1eha.rd, Abbey inn Pile James, farmer, Halls lake

Barrow John (Mrs.), farmer, Sbilstone French Richard, farmer, Slocombeslade Pile John, farmer, Brendon Barton

Barrow John, baker, Rochford French Richard, farmer, Tippacott Richards John, shoe maker

Clark Ephraim, farmer Gregory Daniel, farmer, Malmsmead Richards William Henry,miller (water)
Crocombe John; farmer, Leeford
Gregory Jobn,assistant overseer,Farley I Ridler William, farmer, Lee ford

Curtice John Ward, Rockford inn Gregory Richard, farmer, Lee ford Saunder George, farmer, Cheriton

SOUTH BR ENT is a parish and village, on the river Rpeare Cole, of Exeter College, Oxford. Here are Congrega-

Avon, which is crossed near the village by two bridges, tional and Wesleyan chapels, and a Literary Institute~
with a station on the Great Western railway, 229l miles from supplied with papers, magazines &c. and including a circu-
London, 7i west by rail and 8 by road from Totnes, and 16 lating library of 1,ooo volumes. The parish lands produce
by road and 17 by rail north-east of Plymouth, in the E=outhern £142 yearly, one third of which is applied to church

division· of the county, hundred of Stanborough, petty purposes, one third to education and one third is given to

sessional division of Stanborough and Qoleridge, Totnes the poor. On the hill-side is a tablet, erected in January,
union and county court district, rural deanery and arch- 1873, as a token of gratitude to Sir W. P. Carew bart. for
deaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of giving water to this parish. Here are Messrs. Adams' flock
St. Petrock IS an ancient building of stone, in the Late mills: there are two small flour mills. A cattle fair is held
Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, on the last Tuesday in April and September and cattle
nave of six bays, aisles, transepts, small south porch and a market on last Tuesday in February, August and November.
low embattled western tower of Early Norman character, Mr. J. R. T. Kingwell is lord of the manor. The principal land-
containing 6 bells, all cast by Thomas Bilbie in 1759: the owners are the Misses Carew, J. F. Cornish-Bowdenesq. and

chancel retains a large square-headed piscina and an ancient Messrs. S. and W. Ashford, J. R. T. Kingwell and T. Hamlyn.

sedile, but two new sedilia have been constructed, and there The soil is variable, resting on stone. The chief crops are

is also a priest's doorway: the east window is stained: the wheat and barley and oats. The area is 9•374 acres, 3,ooo of
eastern portion of each aisle forms a chapel, and their Per- which arecommonland; rateablevalue,[,n,245; thepopu-
pendicular piscinre remain: at the west end of the south lation in 1891 was I,58o. There is also good grazing land.
aisle is a small building of two storeys, the lower portion of Part of the village of Avonwick and the hamlets of Aish~

which "·as once a mortuary chapel: fragments of carved Harbourford and Lutton are in this parish.
and painted stone, found in the south transept wall, are Sexton, John Soper.
preserved at the vicarage: the font is Norman and is PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
ornamented with zigzag and other carving: there are in- Hy.Veale,sub-postmaster. Letters received from Ivyl;lridge
scribed stones to Walier Taylor, vicar, 1664; J. Gandy, at 7.3oa.m. & r.3o& 5 p.m.; dispatched 12.10 & 8.15 p.rn

vicar and prebendary of Sarum, 1672 ; J obn Wilcocks, vicar WALL LETTER Box, Brent Mill, cleared at 8.5 p.m. week

from I68r, and prebendary of Exeter, 1715, and Thomas days only
Acland, vicar, 1735: the church plate, of very early date: A School Board of five members was formed August 20,
the church was restored in 1871 at a cost of about {,2,ooo, 1874 ; Edward WindeaLt, Totnes, clerk to the board
and has 400 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials Board School, built in 1877 & enlarged in 188g, for no
dates from the year 1677; marriages, 1678. The living is a boys, 8o girls & go infant-s; average attendance, 85 boys~
vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £731, yearly value 65 girls & 45 infants; Caleb Harris, master; Mrs. E. P.
about £730, net [,623, besides 30 acres of glebe, with resi- Harris, mistress; Miss Elizabeth Pa1tridge, infants' mist
dence, in the gift of and held since 1866 by the Rev.William Railway Station, John Willcocks, station master •

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Lovell Captain L. S. R. Moor view 1Ball Christopher, watch maker

[Names marked thus t receive their letters Mahon Mrs. Moorside Ball Georg-e, blacksmith

through Diptford, Ivybridge.j McCreery James Osterly · Barter William, farmer, Barleycombe-

Ball Miss, Manaton villas Medway George, Hillside Beer William, London inn

Boon Mrs. Springfield villas Mills Josepb S. W. Osborne villas · Bidmead Joseph, apartments

Borebam Miss, Hillside Mitchell Mrs. Oak bill Blight Henry, shoe maker

Bowden Jeffrey, Cbarford [Letters Phillipps Louis Bartlet.,Moor View villa Bradridge Wm. farmer, Higher Lutton

through Avon wick] Phillipps Mrs. Moor View villa Clancey Henry Davis, wheelwright

Bradridge Misses PhillippsSydneyHerbert,MoorViewvilla Cleave Thomas, farmer, Stidstone

Bradridge William, Springfield villas Prince HenryForthWicksted,Somerswd Codd Mary Jane (l\irs. ), dress maker

Carew Rev. Gerald [curate], Hillside Ricbards Thomas, Elm villa Codd John, jun. butcher

Carter Stepben Salter, Noland park SaerWilliamEdgeworth Pritchet (pay- Codd Robert, builder

Codd Miss master Royal Navy), Clobells Cole Elizabeth (Mrs.) & Fredk. bakers:

Cole Rev. William Speare, Vicarage Simpson Francis, Noland park Collins Willjam Henry, grocer

Conran Charles, Balmoral villa · Snell W. Horsebrook cottage [letters Crancb Bros. painters & glaziers

Crossing William, Splatton through Avonwick] Crimp George Adams, saddler & lodg-

Farleigh Mrs. Brent mill Stancombe Robert, Victoria villa ing house, Culloden villa

J<'isber Ponsford, Park cottage Stirling Richard, jun. Bellevue Crimp Polly (Miss), ladies' school, Cui-

Gill Robert Henry Thorne Thomas, Marwell villas laden villa

Harding Miss, Marwell viUas Ward Mrs. W. G. Lutton house Damerell Jn.farmer,Higher Badworthy

Hamlyn Thomas, Leigh grange Woodley Mrs. Didworthy Damereil Rt.farmer,Higher Badworthy-

Hewett Richard, Hillside COMMERCIAL. Davis William, Pack Horse P.H

Hodge Mrs. Gage, Glazebrook house Adams & Co. flock & mattress wool Doddridge William, grocer

Inch William West, Marian villa manufacturers, Manor mills Edmonds Wi1liam Holmes, thatcher &.

Kelham Mrs. Mortimer house Adams George, farmer, Lisburn basket maker
t Adams John, farmer, Moor farm
Kent Mrs. Brent mill Edmunds Mahalab (Miss), dress maker,.

King-well Jobn Richard Toms, Gt. Aisb ArscottWm.Petherbridge,RoyalOak htll Brent mill

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BRIDESTOWE• ~1

•

Farleigh John, shoe maker Lnscombe George, farmer, Chasford Soper Richard Knapman, haulier .

Farleigh William, baker (letters though Avonwick) Sope-r William, grocer

Goodman Henry & William, butche-rs McCreery James Osterly J..R.c.s.J. & Soper William Henry, builder

Goodman Lonisa. (Mrs.), apartments, L.M. su-rgeon, & medical off. & public StrangerJn.farmer&landowner,Lutton

Nelson place vacc. Ugborough dist. Totnes union Stidston Henry, painter & glazier

•Gregor Wm. Charles, jockey& trainer Mason Charles, watch maker Symons Joshua, farmer, BrentMillfrm

Grills Parnell, farmer, Stidstone Matthews William, farmer, Underhill Tall Willia.m, market gardener

Hamlyn Thomas, yeoman &landowner, Maunder & Co. grocers Tope William, tailor

Leigh grange, Lower Beara & Stip- Mannder Joseph, farmer, Little Aish tTozer John & Byron, farmers, Ellwell

padon farms Mead John, fa-rmer, Corringdon Veale Jarvis, builder

-Hard Jasper, baker Newman Thomas, farmer, Downstow Veale Henry, shoe maker&postmaster

Harris Caleb, assistant overseer Northmore Simon, farmer, Badworthy Veale Rd. apartments, 4 Hill Side villas

Hawke W.H. miller (water) &corn mer Parnell Richard, stone mason & lodg- Vooght Joseph, farmer, Higher Lntton

H8slcing Richard, registrar of births & ing house, Nelson place Wakeham John, farmer, Horsebrook

deaths & road surveyor Parnell Thos. frmr. Treland &Merrifield (letters through Avonwick)

Hellens Goorge, farmer, Stidstone Pearse Thomas, farmer Wakeham John Wm. farmer, Palston

1Helmore John, miller (water) Pearse William, farmer WakehamJn.Wm.jnn.frmr. Harbourfrd

.Hosking John, chaise proprietor Preston John, carpenter Wakeham Eliza (Mrs.), apartments,

Hosking Sibyl (Mrs.), grocer RableyGeo.Edwd. brdng.ho.Clarence ho 2 Hill Side villas

Hnxham Arthur, farmer, Over Brent tSavery John, farmer, Great & Lower Wakeham Thos. fa.,.,rmmer, Higher Beara

Jonas Henry, farmer, Binnicknowle Lincombe ·wakeham Thomas, farmer, Horse·

.:Kingwell Horton T. farmer, Zeal farm Scoble Wdliam, blacksmith brook (letters through Avonwick)

.Kingwell John Richard Toms, yeoman tSherwell Alfred, farmer, Wonton Weymouth Emma (Mrs.), apartments,

& landowner, Great Aish tSmarridgeJn. &Alfd.farmrs.Kerswell Nelson place

'Kingwell William J. Mann Aish Smerdon John, farmer, Yelland White Charles, boot & shoe maker

Knapman William, farmer & land- Smerdon John, farmer, Noland house Willcocks Jn.lodging ho. & station mstr

owner, Forder ISmerdon John, jun. Anchor inn Wills Elizabeth & Fanny (Misses),
Lavers Henry, farmer, Little Aish
SmerdonThomas,farmer,Bullhornstone g'l'Ocers & drapers

iLnscombe Edwin, butcher & farmer Soper George Knapman, haulier Wicks Wm. chimney sweepr.Cutterford

'BRENTOR (or BREN ToR) is a small parish with a Heathfield, seating JOO people. The Duke of Bedford is

station on the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western lord of the manor; and the principal landowners are William

Junction railway, 5 miles north from Tavistock, 14 south- Henry Chichester esq. J.P. of Grenofen,. Tavistock, Arthur

east from Launceston and 2! south·west from Lidford station Crabb and William Spear esqrs. The soil is loamy ; subsoil

.and 2 miles north-west from Mary Tavy station, on the Tavi- is various, partly clay and partly slate. The chief crop

stock and Lannceston branch of the Great Western railway, is pasture. The area is 3,364 acres; rateable value,

in the Western division of the county, Tavistock hundred, £4,481; the population in 1891 was 476.

petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural Parish Clerk and Sexton, Frank Honey.

deanery of Tavistock, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese The children of the parish attend the school at North

-of Exeter. The hamlets of North and South Brentor, in the Brentor.

parish of Lamerton and the district of West Black Down, in Railway Station, William John Brown, station master

Mary Tavy, were added to this parish for ecclesiastical North Brentor is x mile north-east from the parish

purposes, in 1879. The church of St. Michael de Rupe is a church. Christ Church, a chapel of ease to the parish

-very small edifice, in the Norman and Perpendicular styles, church, built in 1854, at a cost of £r,6oo, chiefly contributed

the interior measuring only 37 feet by 14~, and consists of by the Holwell and Vernon-Harcourt families, and consecra-

chancel, nave, riorth porch and a low embattled western ted in 1857, is a building of granite, in the Perpendicular

tower, of Early Englisll date, only 32 feet in height, and style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and an em-

•containing 3 bells : it is built almost on the edge of a battled western tower with 4 pinnacles containing one bell:

precipitous rock, on the summit of a very steep and tall there are four stained windows and x8o sittings. A parson-

conical hill, 1,130 feet above the sea level, which is said age house was built by the same benefactors, at a cost of

to have been the tirst spot of land .seen by a merchant £6oo, and the endowment of £4o, set apart for the minister,

'from Plymouth Sound, who, during a storm at sea, vowed was also contributed by the late Admiral F. E. Vernon-

to build a church thereon if he were safely landed : on the Harcourt.

• tower is a sun-dial: the church was restored in 189o by Sexton, William Paige.
the 9th Duke of Bedford K.G. at a cost of £765 and affords
50 sittings: around the church is a small graveyard with a PosT 0FJ'!'ICE1, NorthBrentor.-Robert Rice, sub-postmaster.
'few ancient grave stones. The register dates from the year Letters arrive from Tavistock at 8 a. m. ; dispatched at
is a vicarage~ average
'£wI 7i42toh0,.rgersoTisdhseenycleieva, ing tithe rent-charge 5· 20 p.m. Lifton is the nearest money order office &
rly value £235, including 2 acres of glebe,
Bedford, but pro Lydford railway station the nearest telegraph office.
in the gift of the Duke of
Postal orders are issued here, but not paid '

J~ilc vice the Crown by lapse, and held since r88r by the National School, North Brentor (mixed), built by the late

Rev. Robert Joseph French Smith M.A. of Clare Colleg-e, William Rundle esq. of Bellgrove, Lamerton, & others,

Cambridge, who resides at North Brentor. There is a Bible was founded in 1832, for 70 children; average attend-

<Jhristian chap~l, erected in r84r, and a Wesleyan chapel at ance, 66; Miss Annie Morris, mistress

• *Brentor. Glanville Thomas, farmer, Broadpark 1Skewis Mrs. The Cottage
Harris William, Herrin"''s Arms P.H SmithRev.Rt.Jsph.FrenchM.A. Vicarage
[Marked thus should be sdnressed Lew-
down & marked t Bridestowe R.S.O.] Heard Nathaniel, farm:'r, Liddaton Spooner Edwin C. Raven Tor

:Batten William Henry Hill George, farmer, Hall Ward Frank, Burnville

Chowen John, Tor Side Medland James, farmer, Prescombe Batten Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper

.I<'uller Edward Rossmoyne, Mount Medland John, farmer, Wood park Brimacombe John, shopkeeper

Pleasant Pearce Joseph, farmer, Bnrcombe Gerry John, farmer

Ward Mrs. Tor Side Rice Roger& Samuel, carpenter,Burn la Parkin William, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Symons John, farmer, Whitsnn Pront James Bennett, mine agent

Batten Charles, farmer *SymonsPatience(Mrs. ),frmr.Liddaton Rice Edward & John, farmers

Batten Daniel, shopkeeper Vigars Jones, mason Rice Edward, farmer & butcher

Batten William, farmer, Brinsabatch Ward & Chowen, land agents & sur- Rice Thomas, farmer

llickle Daniel, farmer, Holeyeate veyors, Burnville Squire William, farmer

*Bickle Richard, farmer, Bowden Hill Willcocke Waiter, farmer, Wastor South Brentor.

farm, Liddaton tWonnacott John, Manor hotel .

Brendon Richard, farmer, Waterfield Cooke Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer

Chubb George, farmer, Waterville North" Brentor. Floyd Richard, farmer

Doidge Richard, farmer, Wood park Hargt"eaves Alfred Lydford, Bridge ho Squire Thomas, farmer

Eastcott Wm. farmer, Woodman's Well Powell William

BRIDESTOWE (i.e. Bridgctstowe) is a parish on the Okebampton union and county court district, rural deanery
Toad from Okebampton to Launceston, 6 miles south-west of Okehampton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of

from Okehampton, with a station, :r} miles south from the Exeter. The church of St. Bridget is an ancient building of

village, on the main line of the London and South Western stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and con-
railway, 204 miles from London, Il north from Tavistock sists of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and
and 12 north-east from Launceston, in the Western division an embattled western tower With pinnacles, containing 6

of the county, Lifton hundred and petty sessional division, bells, all cast from a smaller peal, with additions, in r828,

DEV. & COR:X. 6

82 BRIDESTOWE. DEVONSHIRE. [K:ELLY'S

when the tower was also heightened : there is a hagioscope Barnstaple, and Rev. John Bidlake Wollocombe M.A. rector
in the south aisle and a piscina and sedilia in the chancel : of Stowford, Daniel Radford esq. J.P. of Mount Tavy, Tavi~­

the bench ends, choit stalls and pulpit are of carved oak : stock, and the trustees of the late Mrs. Ashford. The soii

the stained east window, a memorial to J. H. M. Stewart- is clay; subsoil, shale. The chief crops are oats and barley,.

Menzies and his two sons, was erected by Mrs. Stewart- but a great deal of the land is used as pasturage. The-

Menzies in r866 : a mural tablet, dated r663, has some parish contains 5,209 acl'es ; rateable value, £4,o86 ; the•

quaint lines to Honora (Fortesque), relict {)f Sir H. Prid- population in r891 was 586. By a Local Government Ordel"
eaux kt. and 2nd wire of Sir Shilston Calmady kt. of Lang· which came into operation March 25, r88-J., a detached part

don; and there is another with armorial shields to John of this parish known as Longham was amalga.matd with.

Wrey, ob. 1576: the church was partially restored in 18go, Coryton in the Tavistock union. •

under the care of Messrs. Fulford and Harvey, architects, of Parish Clerk, J ames Joyce.

Exeter, at a cost of about £100: there are 250 sittings. Sexton, Isaac Spear.
At the south entrance to the churchyard is an ancient stone PosT OFFICB (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have-
archway of the trar.sition period between Norman and R.S.O. North Devon added).-Miss Mary Ann :Peard,
Early English. The register dates from the year 1696. The postmistress. Letters received at 4.56 a.m. ; dispatched

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £244, net at 7 p.m. The nearest money vrderoffice is at Lewdow111
yearly 'Value £375, with 79 acres of glebe in band and & telegraph office at the Railway station, at which-
residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and held since business is transacted on behalf of the Post office. Postal

r889 by the Rev. John Loveband Francis B.A. of Worcester orders are issued here, but not paid
College, Oxford. There is a chapel for Bible Christians. WALL LETTER Box, Railway station, cleared at 6.30 p.m~

Leawood is the residence of Vincent Waldo Calmady week days only

Hamlyn esq. lii.A., J.P.; and Millaton that of John Gubbins National School (mixed & infants), erected in r85o, for r6.f-

Newton esq. The rector for the time beiilg is lord of the children; average attendance, 132; Tom Sly, master;

manor of Bridestowe sanctuary. The principal landowners Miss Laura Sly, mistress ; Miss Lucy Tickell, infants' mist

are Vincent Waldo Calmady Hamlyn esq. the trustees of County Police, Richard B. Holwill, constable

the late Ven. Archdeacon Woollcombe lll. A. archdeacon of Rail way Station, William Henry Smith, station master

Baker Samuel Crabbe George, farmer, Cranford Pike'James, shoe maker ·

Francis Rev. John Loveband B. A. [rector Davey Michael, farmer, Fernworthy Portbury John, baker & shopkeeper
Powell Edmund, farmer, Raddon
&; rural dean of OkehamptonJ, Rectry Down Richard, farmer, Smelland
Hamlyn Vincent Waldo Calmady lii.A., Down Richd. farmer, Woodford Ham Reep Jonathan, f~ll'mer, Standon

J.P. Leawood Down "William, farmer, Fernworthy Rice Thomas, farmer, Churndon

Newton John Gubbins, Millaton Ellis William, farmer, Woodford Rowe Henry, miller (water) & painter,.

Routley Mrs Gale Edward, farmer, Coombow Bidlake mill

COMllERCIAL. Gale John Oliver, cowkeeper Rule William, Royal O:!k P.H. & farmr

Alford Robert, blacksmith, Coombow Hawke Richard, White Hart inn Rundle John, painter & glazier

Ash Mary Ann (Mrs.) & Son, farmers, Hooper Thomas, butcher Stanbury Jane (Mr~. ),frmr.Shortacmb~

Battishill Johns William, cattle dealer & farmer Surcombe John, farrier

Ash Thos. & Son, farmers, Way Barton Joyce James, saddler Voaden Matthias, frmr.Ebbsworthy twa

Bevan Thomas, farmer & cattle dealer Lavis William, farmer, Great Cranford Voaden Wm. farmer, Ebbsworthy towa

Bevan William, farmer & cattle dealer Lintern John, farmer, Blackabroom Voyzey Samuel, gamekeeper to D. Rad-

Bray Josepb, shopkeeper . Lintern Samuel, cab proprietor ford esq. Keeper's cottage

Bray William, shoe maker Lintern Samuel, mason & farmer Voyzey William, cowkeeper, Watergate

Bridestowe Men's Social Club (The) Mark Brothers, farmers, Great Bidlake WaltersThos.miller(water), Lea wood ml

(Rev. J. L. Francis B.A. hon. sec) Millman Thomas, blacksmith Weekes Samuel, carpenter

Brook Robert, farmer, Woodhead OrchardGeo.Rowe,farmer,Lit.Cranford White George, mason, Coombow

Brook Thomas, farmer, Vale down Orchard Ricbard, Fox & Hounds P.H Worden Nicholas, farmer & carpenter

Cole John, shoe maker Palmer John Durant, lime merchant & Yelland Bros. farmers, CobhamwiCk

Cowling Sl. Jn. farmer, Little Bidlaka farmer, Great Close Yelland David, farmer, Beara

BRIDFORD is a parish and small village, on an emin- barytes mine, which is being worked. There were charities

ence rising from the northern and eastern banks of the of £3 6s. 4d. yearly value, which have lapsed. Lord Haldon,.

river Teign, 9 miles south-west-by-west ~rom Exeter, 5 who is lord of the manor, and the rector are the chief land-

east from Moreton Hampstead, and 3 miles south-east from owners. The soil in the low-lying portion of the parish is •

Ashton station on the Teign Valley branch of the Great loamy ; subsoil, clay ; on the hills the soil is granitic ; sub-

Western railway, in the Mid division of the county, Crock- soil, granite. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats ami

ernwell petty sessional division, Wonford hundred, St. potatoes. The acreage is 3,658A. 3R. 4P. ; rateable value~

Thomas union, Exeter county court district, rural deanery £3,196; the population in 1891 was 429.

aof Kenn, archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church Sexton, John '\\raye.
of St. Thomas Becket is an· ancient building of granite, in PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. EmLy Louisa Passmore, sub-postmis-
the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north
tress. Letters through Exeter, via Dunsford, arrive a.t 7.25
aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower with
pinnacles,containing 6 bells : there is a handsome oak screen, a.m.; dispatched at 5·55 p.m. Sundays, arrive at n.4<>
carved and painted, bearing the date 1508 : in r883 the
.church was entirely reseated and an organ erected : there a. m.; dispatched at 11.55 a. m. The nearest money order-
are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. The
office is at Dunsford & telegraph office at Moreton Hamp-
stead. Postal orders issued her~, but not paid

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge .£28s, net yearly WALL LETTER BoxEs, Eridford Mill, cleared at 6. to p.m.
value £460, including 233 acres of glebe, with residence, in & sundays 12.25 p.m. ; & Dunsford road, cleared at 6.30
the gift of Edward Gotto esq. of Hampstead, near London, p.m. week days only
and held since 18go by the Rev. Richard Hovenden Murphy A School Board of five members was formed July 20, r875;.
Ill.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. There was formerly an Rev. R. H. Murphy lii.A. hon. clerk to the board; John
ancient chapel at Laployd, dedicated to St. Katherine, but Waye, attendance officer
no traces of it now remain. The Brethren have a chapel at Board School (mixed), built in 1876, for I37 children ; aver-
Bridford Mi11. There are lead mines in this parish, which age attendance, 31; Miss Fanny Headon, mistress

have not been worked for some considerable time ; also a CARRIER TO ExETER.-William Causeley, tues. & fri

[Marked thus • recei\"e their letters through Causeley 'Villiam, carrier Parr Robert, farmer, Trenchford
Moreton Hampstead.]
Coles I<'rederick & Saml. farmers, Venn Partridge Ann(Mrs. ),farmer,Swaniford

*Gallichan Waiter Matthew, Rock vale Dennis George, farmer, Thorn Perry John Voysey, shopkeeper

Murphy Rev.Rd.Hovenden lii.A.Rectory *Down William, farmerj Blackingstone Pike John & Sons, tailors

Surridge William, Teign Vale cottages Dunsford Robert, farmer, Low. Naydon Sercombe James, farmer, Swaniford

COMMERCIAL. *Easton John & Son, quarry owners, Sherman John, Harriers' inn

Addems Joseph, farmer, Poole Blackingstone Surridge John & Frederick William~

*Addems Nicholas,frmr. Middle Westctt Harvey Charles, farmer, Low. Lowton· millers (water) & corn merchants

.Aggett William, stone mason Harvey Daniel, farmer, L<lployd Taverner Wm. & Jn. farmers, Woodland

Bailey George, carpenter Hewer John, farmer, Higher Naydon Teign Valley Barytes Co. (Joseph

Beer John, carpenter Hill Albert, blacksmith Rundel, manag-er)

Beer Walt. & Alfd. farmrs. Week Barton Hooper William,farmer, Higher Lowton Thomas James, assistant overseer

Bennett Arthur, farmer, Lower Hole Knapman Hannah(Mrs.), farmr. Stone Tuckett Nicholas, farmer, Heltor

*Berry Nathaniel, farmer, Westcott LeachMary(Mrs. ),farmer, Brinnacombe Tully George, farmer, Middle hole

Browning Wm.& Jas.farmers,Edgmoor Manning John, farmer, The Barton Wills Joseph, farmer, Furzeland

Causeley John, farmer, Furzeland ~orthcottJn. Frost, farmer, Smithacott

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. ·BRIXH.AM.· 83

DRIDGERULE (anciently Rl:idgerauld) is a village 1is a vicarage, avernge tithe rent-charge £uS, net yearly
and parish, partly on the river Tamar, 5 miles west from value £2r2, including 184 acres of glebe, with residence, in

Holsworthy, where the nearest ra1lW<!:Y station is, and the gift of Mrs. S. N. ,Kingdon, and held since r888 by the

6i east from Bu.de, in the Western division of the county, Rev. Frank Hawker Kingdon .A..K.C L. Here are Bible

hundred of Black Torrington, petty sessional division, union Christian and Wesleyan chapels. The late Rev. T. H. King-

and county court district of Holsworthy, rnraJ deanery of don, in 1853• beqaeathed .£4oo, the interest to be given

Holsworthy, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of annual)y to 12 persons, male and female; and in 1856

Exeter. The portion of this parish on the west of t~ Tamar Mr. Usher wood bequeathed £ ro8, the interest to be distri-

was transferred from Cornwall to Devonshire by the Acts 2 buted in bread and fuel. Mrs. Richard Ford is lady of the

and 3 William IV. cap. 64(1832) an:l 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. manor. The principal landowners are Mrs. Richard 'Ford,

6r (1844). The church of St. Bridget is an ancient buildi~ of Pencarrow, CornwaU, Sir George Stucley Stucley bart.

of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, D.L., J. P. of ·Moreton, Bideford, John Hinde Pal mer esq.

nave, south aisle, north transept, south porch and an em- Q.c. A. C. L. Glubb esq. P. S. Glnbb esq. of Helston, E.

battled western tower with crocketed pinnacles containing 5 Mucklow esq. .J.P. Mrs. Kingdon and the representatives of

bells; the first was recast in r865 and the third in r877; the the late Rev. R. G. Kingdon. The soil is chiefly clay; sub-
second and fourth date from 1777 and the firth from 18r8 ; soil, c~. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots.

the whole peal was rehung in 1877 : the chancel retains a The area is 3,2r9 acres; rateable value, £r,407; the piJpu-

piscina: the church was thoroughly restored in 1878, at a lation in rB~I was 367.

cost of over .£r,ooo, when a vestry was added, with money Sexton, JoQn Dinner.

left by the Rev. T. Simcox: there are four stained windows: PosT 0FFICE.-William Vinnicombe, postmaster. Lette~s

and on the north wall of the nave is a brass to William arrive from Hol&worthy at 8.25 a. mof.fic; ediisspaattchWedhiatstt4o.n2e5,
Henry Napier, who fell in the battle of Hindun, May 31, p.m. The nearest money order

1857: over the south porch is a sun-dial, and in it are pre- Cornwall & telegraph office at Holsworthy
served the ancient village stocks: the church w1 sa9s1 lighted
·with lamps in r888 at a cost of .£22 , and in a side National School (mixed), erected in 1872, for roo children ;

chapel was built and a chancel screen, choir seats and organ average attendance, 55 • Mrs. Minnie Roger~, mistress

erected by subscription, at a cost of .£soo: there are 250 CARRIER TO rLTMOUTH.-W. Paddon, thurs. return fri. ;

sittings. The register dates from the year 1561. The living to Holsworthy, wed. ; to Stratton, tues

Bassett Thomas Bailey, Jubilee house Bowden William, farmer, Nortons Jewell James, farmer, l\loor side
Bray John, farmer Jones Samuel, farmer, Hollodon
Dennis George Beauchamp Gore :r.r.A., Buckler William, fal'mer, Little Bridge Lucas James, farmer, Southlands

J.P. Newacott Budd T. R. & Son, bldrs.&wheelwrights Paddon Wm. farmer & carrier, Dux
Kingdon Rev. Frank Hawker A.K.C.I.. Penwarden Samuel, farmer, Furse
Carthew John, farmer, Merryfield Rogers Ann (Mrs.), farmel', Tackbeer
Vicarage Chapman John, basket maker Rogers John, farmer & poultry dealer,.
Collins Richard, farmer, Burrough
COMMERCIAL. Little bridge
French George, farmer, Knowle Rogars Hy.miller(water)& churchwardn
Andrews William, farmer, Burrough Gardner Giles, farmer, Newacott Sluggett William, cowkeeper, Knowle
Ashton William, fat•mer, Churchtown Gist William, boot & shoe maker Uglow Thomas B. farmer, Lodgworthy
Badcock Samuel, farmer, Lane end Grills George, ne,vs agent Vinnicombe Samuel, draper & grocer ·
Bailey Thomas, farmer, The Villa Heddon Henry, farmer, Burrough VinnicombeWilliam,shopkpr.Post office
Ballamy Abraham, Bridge inn Honey Henry, farmer, Dux
Bassett Wi\liam, farmer, Little Brilge Viunicombe William, jun. mason
Bickle William, boot maker Honey William, farmer, Scotland
Bines William, farmer, Tatson Hoskin Waiter, blacksmith

BRIXHAM is a market and seapor~ town and extensive There are two firms of shipbuilders-Messrs. J. W. and A.

fishing station, on the southern headland of Torbay, con- Upham, and Messrs. S. Dewdney and Sons, each employing

nected with the Dartmouth and Torbay branch of the Great 20 or 30 men, and two roperies, in which 40 men & boys ar~

Western railway by a branch line from Churston station 2 employed. This town also contains the works of the Torbay

miles in length, authorized by Act of Parliament in r864, Paint Comp:my, where they manufacture" Galley's'' Tor\;)ay

and opened for passenger traffic 28th February, r868, and paint, which is well known and largely used throughout the

for goods traffic in May the following year. The town is 9 world for the preservation of iron and steel.

miles east-by-south from Totnes, 5 north-east from Dart- On the 5th of November, r688, William, Prince of Orange

mouth, 30 south from Exeter, 81 south from Torquay (on landed here at the invitation of the Whig leaders, the Earl8

the opposite side of the bay) by road, or 5 by water, and of Shrewsbury, Devonshire and Danby, Admiral Russell

226t from London. It consists of two divisions, called and others, to preserve, in the words on his banner, "the

Higher and Lower Brixham; the former extends in a long Protestant religion and the liberties of England," and on the

straggling street for more than a mile south from Lower quay, protected by an iron railing, is a stone on whiCh, it is

Brixham, or Brixham Quay, and consists for the most part said, he first set foot on landing: the Prince was enter-

of a picturesque valley opening to the quay, and bounded tained during his stay at the house of Christopher Farwell,

on the east by lofty sea cliffs and by Bel'ry Head, the most mayor of Totnes in r656 : the bicentenary of this event was

easterly point of the bay. It is in the Southern division of celebrated on the 5th of November, r888, by a public meet-

the county, hundred of Haytor, petty sessional division of ing and a grand banquet, and a statue of William Ill. has

Paignton, union and county court district of Totnes, rural since been erected, at a cost of f:7oo, from the model by

deanery of Ipplepen, archdeaconry of Totnes and ,diocese of Messrs. Wills, of London; the foundation stone of the pedestal

Exeter. was laid by his excellency Count Van Bylandt, Netherlands

The Local Government Act r858 (21 and 22 Vict. c. g8), Minister, and the statue unveiled sth Nov. r889 by C. A.

was adopted by Lower Brixham Sept. 19, 1862, and the Bentinck esq. J.P. In July, rBrs, H.M.S. "Bellerophon,"

Board consists of 12 members. The town has been well Captain Maitland, anchored in the roadstead here, after

drained under the superintendence of E. Appleton c.E. and receiving on board the Emperor Napoleon, and remained

is supplied with water from a reservoir constructed in Higher several days before sailing for St. Helena. This coast was

Brixham, at a cost of about .£4,00:> : during 1888 the part visited with a very severe storm on the night of January roth,

of the town on Furzeham and the higher levels have been 1866, when upwards of 40 merchant vessels, out of a tleet of

supplied with water by water and steam power and large 64 then anchored in 'forbay, were driven from their anchors

tank erecte::l on Furzeham Common. and wrecked or stranded, most of them being totally lost,

The harbour, being well protected by the bold high pro- and more than roo men are supposed to have perished, 29

montory of Berry Head, is a place of refuge for shipping in of whom are buried in Brixham churchyard: a monument,

stormy weather ; and during westerly winds, great numbers surmounted by a cross and anchor, was erected to their

of vessels rnay be seen rtding at anchor here and in other memory by the Hrixham Shipwrecked Sailors' Relief Corn-

parts of the bay. The old pier was built under the powers mittee, from the surplus of .£3,2II gs. sd. entrusted to them

of the Harbour and Market Improvement .Act, passed in by a generous public, after relieving the widows and

1799, and was finished in 1804 ; but the harbour not being orphans and other sufferers from the gale.

sufficiently large for the increased size of the vessels aud the The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin, which stands in

general trade of the port, a new pier and breakwater was the higher part of Brixham, is an ancient building of stone

begun in 1843, and up to the present time a length of 1,363 in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chl'\,ncel, nave, tran-

feet has been constructed at a cost of £21,597 r5s. 3d. septs, aisles, two side chapels, south porch, and an embattled

Brixham depends entirely on its fishing industry; there are western tower 103 feet high, with pinnacles, containing a

at present over 200 fishing smacks,varying from 20 to so tons, clock and 6 bells, all cast by Abet Rudhall in 1737; in 1852

which hail from this port; and the population not engaged it was repaired at a cost of about £665, and in 1867 tbe

as fishermen, are mainly employed in building these sm'l.cks church was re-roofed and other repairs executed at a cost of

and in making r0p:!s, sail:3 and other requisites fol' outfit. .£1,100 ; the south porch has a finely groined roof, the centrl.

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84 ·BrUXHAl\L DEVONSHIRE. [KELLY'S

boss representing lthe Virgin crowned, with two angels The new market, built of stone in r877, at a cost of £3,0001
incensing on either side ; in the church is 'a monument to on a site presented to the Commissioners by H. W. Nelson

Sir Francis Buller hart. justice of the Common Pleas, and esq. J.P. Hendon, Middlesex, comprises market and public

ancestor of the present Lord Churston, who died sth June, halls, magistrates' room and local board, commissioners'
r8oo; the stained east window was presented jointly by the and school board offices. The Artillery Volunteers drill at

]ate Lord Churston and the late vicar, and there are also the new market buildings; the Royal Naval Reserve Bat-

two memorial windows in the chancel, inserted in t88r, to tery, whose head quarters are in Berry Head road, number

the Rev. R. Holdsworth, late vicar, by his daughters : the about 400 men.

font dates from the 14th century and is richly carved: A regatta for vessels ranging from 15 to 6o tons is held
there are 700 sittings. The register of baptisms dates occasionally in the month of September.
from the year rs87; marriages rss6 i burials xs6o i and
the books contain the names of the vicars from 1566 to the The Conservative club is in Bolton street, and the Liberal
present time. The living is a vicarag~, with the chapelry club in King street.

of Churston Ferrers annexed, net yearly value £494• with In x8s8, during the progress of some quarrying, a

residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1 86r by cavern containing stalactites and bones was discovered and
the Rev. Adolphus Frederick Carey M.A. of Wadham College, thoroughly explored by the Royal Geological Society, who

Oxford. The church was formerly sen·ed by the monks of obtained a lease of the place for one year. The first crust

Totnes Priory, and the vicar has to pay a sum of £x 3s. 6d. consisted of a foot of stalactite flooring, underneath which

yearly as a fee farm rent to the present possessor of these was a stratum of bone, averaging three feet in depth, out of

rights. The population in x88r was 1,754· John Travers which upwards of 2,000 different specimens were recovered,

M. A. vicar in r645, a cousin of "the judicious Hooker," and consisting of flint impbments, bones and teeth: below this
a learned and amiable man, was ejected for his unshaken formation were water-worn pebbles, varying in depth : the

loyalty to the king, and never restored; his son, also a extent of the cavern, which has been much affected by

clergyman, was taken prisoner by the Parliamentary soldiers aqueous action, exceeds 6oo feet, and the stalactites with
which it is encrus~ed are remarkable for the fantastic
while conducting divine service in the church.

Lower Brixham was formed into an ecclesiastical district character of their formation.

September :ao, 1825. The British Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home for the western

The church of all Saints', erected in x82o, is a building of counties was originally established at Rock House, in this

stone, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave aisles, organ parish, in 1859 by tbe late WilliaruGibbs esq. of Tyntesfield,

chamber and vestry, added in 1872 : the chancel was built near Bristol, for the purpose of making provision for the
as a memorial to the Rev. J. R. Hogg, late vicar: in r886 a orphan sons of seamen, and subsequently a new building

south aisle was added, at a cost of £'r,8oo; and in 1892 a adjoining Rock House was opened in Dec. r863 and corn-

new north aisle was erected, heating apparatus fixed and pleted in 1864; in 1873 these premises were enlarged, and

the seats re-arranged at a cost of £2.300: the west front in 1875 a separate school room for so boys was erected at
and stained west window, completed at the same time, form the cost of the baroness Burdett·Coutts. An entirely new

a memorial to the late Mrs. Hogg, of Berry Head, and were wing was built by subscription in r888-g, at a cost of£1,400.

erected at the cost of her relations and friends: the church The freehold of the Home and Rock House and its grounds,

affords 1 ,ooo sittings. The register dates from;the year r826. now the chaplain's residence, have been vested by Mrs. Gibbs
The living was declared a vicarage April 3rd, r866; tithe rent in the Bishop of the diocese as trustee. The Home is now

charge commuted at .£141; average £1o6: net yearly value available for 76 boys: it is maintained by voluntary sub-

£77, including 8 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift scriptions and managed by a committee.

of the Crown, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Stewart Sim cloLthaensg 'asncdhamriotineesy, . proTdhuecicnhga r£i t3y3 yearly, are distributed in
M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, and surrogate. The popu- of G. H. Cutler of Upton

lation in 1891 was 6,439. The Rev. H. F. Lyte, author of produces £,23, which is distributed in coal and blankets to

the well-known hymn, "Abide with me," was the first the poor of Higher Brixham only.
incumbent of this parish.
Nethway, the residence of Llewellyn Llewellyn esq. J.P. is
The St. Peter's Mission Church for Seamen, erected in an ancient mansion of some historic interest, situated mid-

1874, at a cost of £,2,000, is a building of stone in the Early way between Brixham and Kingswear.
English style, consisting of chancel, nave and north aisle,
with organ chamber: there are M35e0rtsointtiCnoglsl.egeT, hOexfRoerdv.' There are no manorial rights: the manor was formerly
Annesley Montagu Voysey B.A. of held in four parts, one-fourth by the Duchess of Cleveland
has been curate-in-charge since 189°· and the Earl of Sandwich, one-fourth originally by 12

fishermen, who were styled Quay lords, and the other two-

There is a Catholic place of worship, which is served from fourths were held by Sir Henry Paul Seale, of Dartmouth,

Paignton. Charles Seale-Hayne esq. M.P.,J.P. ofKingswearCastle, and

The Baptist chapel in Middle street was rebuilt in x8s8. the representatives of the late W. Gillard esq. Waste lands

a t The Congregational church in Bolton street,erected in 1843, and commons have been allotted to several proprietors under
red in 1872, and will seat 500 an award made by Mr. W. Hovey, acting for the Inclosure
a cost of £ 2 ,000, was resto Act Commissioners: a recreation ground, containing 8

persons. acres, and an allotment garden for the poor, containing 4
The Wesleyan chapel in Fore street, erected in 1816 at a acres, have been laid out.
cost of £2,000, was enlarged and improved in 1871 at a cost
of about £ 2oo, and has sittings for 8oo persons ; the Sunday The principal landowners are Lord Churston, The Right
schools on the opposite side of the street, erected isntyl1e8. g9 Hon. Charles Seale-Hayne P.c., M.P.,J.P. Llewellyn Llewellyn
at a cost of about £x,roo, are of stone in the Gothic
esq. J.P., Thomas· Lakeman jun. esq. Thomas Bedford

The cemetery, which adjoins the churchyard in Higher Bolitho esq. M.P., D.L., J.P. and William Green esq. of

Brixham, is a quarter of an acre in extent. Burton villa. The soil is light ;. subsoil, slate, Durstone

The Freemasons' Hall, in Church street, is a building of limestone. The chief crops are oats, barley and wheat and

dressed limestone, erected in r886, at a cost of about £6so; pasture. The acreage is 5·59SA. 2R. 2IP. in Brixham, snd
the Temperance Hall, Bolton street, erected in x869 at a 2,527 in Churston Ferrers ; rateable value, {,2I,557; the

-cost of £ 1, 100, including the site, is let for entertainments population in 1891 was 7,978. At the time of each census
.and lectures, and will seat about 450 persons. being taken several hundred men and boys were at sea.

The market days are Tuesdays and Saturdays. . Parish Clerk, St. Mary the Virgin, Charies Nortou

Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c.

PosT & M. 0. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Government Annuity & · MAILS INWARD: DELIVERY COMMENCES:-

Insurance Office (Rail way Sub Office. Letters should London & all part sL, o1n a.m. ; North mail & auxiliary
have R.S.O. Devon added), Fore street. James Cranford, London, II a. m.; don & south of England, 4.30 p.m

postmaster PARCELS dispatched xo a.m. ; 1.401 6.20 & 7.30 p.m.;

MAILS DISPATCHED. arrive 7 & II a.m. & 4.30 p.m

"*Dartmouth, Paignton & Torquay, 9 a.m Telegraph hours 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; sundays 8 to IO a.m

*London day, also Plymouth, Exeter, Totnes, Cornwall PILLAR & WAl.L BoxEs.-Fore street, cleared at 8.45 a.m.
&c. xo.xo a.m.; *North mail, also Exeter, Plymouth,
Newton, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Torquay, 1.40 & 7.20 p.m.; sundays 8.45 a.m. ; Church street,
Paignton &c. r.so p.m.; tLondon & all parts, 7·35 p.m
cleared at 9·35 a. m. 1.40 &7.30 p.m. ; sundays, 8.40 a. m.;
*Five minutes later with extra stamp. tFifteen minutes
later. Burton street, cleared at 8.45 a.m. 1.25 & 7.20 p.m. ;
sundays 8·45 a. m.~ King street, clea-red at 9·4° a. m. 1.40
On sunday the box closes at 7.30 p.m & 7.30 p.m.; sundays 8.40 a. m; South Furzeham road,
cleared at g.35a.m. I.30&7.20p.m; sundays, 8.4oa.m.;
PosT & M. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Drew st Drew street, Higher Hrixham, cleared at 8.30 a. m. x.rs &
7 p.m.; sundays 8.30 a. m. ; Milton street, Higher Brix-
Higher Brixham.-William Banner, postmaster
ham, c1eared at 9· ro a.m. & 1.5 p.m. ; Sundays 8 a.m

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BRIXBAM• 8b

LowER BRIXHAM LOCAL BoARD. PUBLIC OFFICERS : - •

Offices, New Market buildings. Admiralty Surgeon & Agent, George Blacker Elliott, 4

:Qoard day, alternate tuedays at 7 p.m. Holton street

Members. Assistant Overseer & Collector, Nicholas Smith, 6 Manor tE'r

J. Dewdney, chairman. Assessor & Collector of Income Taxes, William James

T. S. Brown G. A. Johnson Bradden, South Furzeham road

W. J. Bradden A. Kendrick Certifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Officer Brixham &

W. Cann E. Lockyer Churston District, Totnes Union, George Clement Searle,

V. Collings E. G. A. Narraway Burton house, Burton street

W. H. Dugdall P. Varwell, jun Clerk to the Commissioners for Improving the Harbour &

H. Foot · Market of Brixham, William Philalethes Spark, New road

Clerk, William Calley, 4 St. Kilda terrace, Higher Brixham Clerk to the Magistrates, 0. S. Bartlett, 3 Fore street

Medical Officer of Health, Geo. Clement Searle, Burton ho Examiner of Fishermen, W. Lovell, Quay

Treasurer, George John Bulgin, ~ational Provincial Bank Public Vaccinator, Brixham & Cburston Districts, Totnes

Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances & Water Bailiff, W. H. Union, Arthur Ernest Hayward, West Hill villas

Widdicombe, Four Views Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners' Royal Benevolent So-

COUNTY MAGiS'IRATES FOR PAIGNTON PETTY SESSIONAL ciety, Rose lawn, Burton st. Miss Browse, local hon. sec

DIVISION. Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages for Brixham Sub-

Churston Lord, Lupton house, Churston Ferrers District, Samuel Fox Dugdall, King street

Baker Nathaniel esq. Butts hill, Kingswear, Dartmouth Harbour Master, James Winsor Wheaton, Parkham

Bolitho Thomas Bedford esq. M.P., D.L. Greenway house, Stamp Distributor, James Cranford, Fore street

Churston Ferrers R.S. 0 Town Crier, George Hammett, 19 Fore street

Churchward Frederick, Hill house, Stoke Gabriel PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services:-

Daubeny Col. St. John, The Beacon, Kingswear, Dartmouth Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Rev. Adolphus

Dawkins Rear-Admiral Richard, Maisonette, Stoke Gabriel l<'rederick Carey M. A. vicar; 10.45 a. m.& 6.30 p.m.; thurs.

Harlowe-Turner Major John, Cliff house, Paignton R.S.O 7 p.m

Hodge Captain T. H., Moorlands, Paignton All Saints' Church, Lower Brixham, Rev. Stewart Sim ALA.

Llewellyn Llewellyn esq. Nethway, Kingswear, Dartmouth vicar; 8 & n a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m.; daily at 9

Seale-Hayne Right Hon. Charles P.c., M.P. Kingdwear a.m

castle, Dartmouth St. Peter's (Mission to Seamen), Rev. Annesley Montagu

Simpson Francis Chas. esq. Maypool, Churston Ferrers R.S.0 Voysey B.A. curate-in-charge; 8 & 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.;

Studdy Henry esq. n. L. Waddeton et. Stoke Gabriel, Totnes daily 8 a.m. & 7.30 p.m ·

Toms Lieut.-Col. Henry, Riversea, Kingswear, Dartmouth Catholic (served from Paignton), catechism, confession &

Uniacke Captain Henry Turner mass 10.30 a.m

Clerk, 0. S. Hartlett, 3 Fore street, Brixham Baptist, Middle street, Rev. William Barker; 10.45 a.m. &

Petty Sessions are held at the New Market Buildings every 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m

alternate wednesday, at 10.45 a.m. The places in the Congregational, Bolton street, Rev. Richard Olver; n a.m.

division are Brixha.m, Churston Ferrers, Kingswear, & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7.30 p.m

Marldon, Paignton & Stoke Gabriel Wesleyan, Fore street, Rev. J. N. Broad; 10.45 a. m. &6.30

PuBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS:- p.m.; thurs. 7 p.m

British Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home, Rev. Francis A. Brethren, Mount Pleasant road; u a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed.

Souper M.A. chaplain & sec 7·30 p.m

Brixham Harbour & Market, W. P. Spark, clerk Gospel Union Hall, Fore street, C. M. Paterson, supt.; II

Coa!tgual'd Station, Berry Head road, Samuel Dickenson, a. m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; week days, 8 p.m. except fridays

chief officer, & II men · Town Mission Room, Bolton street

Custom House, Overgang, I. J. Newton, principal coast

officer, receiver of wreck & registrar of shipping SCHOOLS:-

Freemasons' Hall, Church street, Thomas Harris, sec A School Board of 7 members was formed March I?, 1874;

Liberal Club, King street, H. P. Elliott, hon. sec William Philalethes Spark, clerk to the board ; Thomas

Market Hall, New road, W. H. Screvil, caretaker Spurdens, New road, school attendance officer

Police Station, Cavern road, George Gater Potter, sergeant Board, Furzeham hill, built in r889, for 350 boys, 300 girls

in charge, & 5 constables & 3oa infants; average attendance, 290 boys, 170 girls &

Royal National Life Boat Institution, A. Kenderick, hon. 170 infants; William James Bradden, master; Miss E.

sec. Berry Head road Davies, mistress & Miss L. Davies, infants' mistress

Royal Naval Klserve Battery (4oo) men), Berry Head road, Board, Higher Brixham (girls & infants), for 200 ch1ldren;

Samuel Dickenson, chief officer · average attendance, 6o girls & 100 infants; M1ss E. Lemon,

Temperance Hall, Bolton street, J. W. L::~vell, hon. sec mistress ; Mrs. A. Matthews, infants' m1stress

Volunteer Fire Brigade Engine, Bolton st. H. King, capt Board, Nethway (mixed), built in 1886, for 100 children;

VOLUNTEERS:- average attendance, 30; Miss J. L. Vowles, mistress

Devonshire ( xst) Volunteer Artillery Western Division National Endowed, Bolton street (mixed), for 550 children;

Royal Artillery 2 Company, Drill hall, New Market average attendance, 230 boys & 220 girls ; & endowed

buildings; headquarters, 2 New road; Major Lord with £75 yearly; Charles Carlile, master; Miss Agnes

Churston, commanding; W. W. Widdicombe, Iieut. ; Whittick, mistress

Sergeant-Major W. Hall, drill instructor; Surgeon-Lieut. National Infants', St. Peter's hill, for 227 children, with a

George Clement Sea.rle, medical officer; Rev. Stewart full average attendance; Miss Mary Jane Jones, mistress

Sim M.A. acting chaplain Railway Station, Robert Arthur Higginbottom, station mast

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Biggs John, Eveleigh, Higher Brixham Chilcote Miss, Hill ho. High. Brixh~ m

Alexander Philip P. Laywell, Higher Bird Edwd.C.Greenover,HigherBrixhm Clarke Mrs. Bellevue, New road

Brixham Blake Charles, Woodside Cohen Israel, 2 Manor terrace

Alrny Rev.Jn. Thos.Vectis vil.Burton st Bovey John, 55 Bolton street Collier Wm. Fredk. Jarmond, 9 New rd

Apter Nicbolas John, 25 Bolton street Bovey John Hopkins, II Bolton street Collings Mrs. Rock bank east

Baddeley Mrs. 16 New road BraddenJn. Albinia vil. S. Furzeham rd Colston Mrs. 3 Bolton street

Haddeley Mrs. 22 New road Bradden John Joseph, Springwood Coming Samuel, Ranscombe house

Baddeley Samuel (Mrs.), 4 Rockland tel' Brenton Mrs. Weston ho. High.Brixham Dart Misses, 3 Manor terrace

Banbury James,Prospect cottage, North Broad Rev. John N. [Wesleyan], 1 St. Davies Jas. St. Kilda, Higher Brixbam

I<'Ul'zeham road Elmo, New road DecentJ. W. (Mrs.), Brookclift,New rd

Banfield Thomas, Rockvale, New road Brooking Misses, Wistaria, New road Decent William, 10 Manor terrace

Barker Rev. William [Baptist], South BrownJas.St.Lawrence,HigherBrixham Dewdney Daniel, Cleveland ho. New rd

Furzeham road Brown Mrs. Norton house,Milton street, Dewdney John, Rock villa, King street

Bartlett Atherton, Parkham Higher Brixham Doulton Capt. Edwd. Hawton, Clevistn

Bartlett Christopher Eames, Ashleigh Browse Miss, Rose lawn, Burton street Drew Miss, Brookdale, Higher Brixham

.Hartlett George, Fore street Bulgin George John, I Manor terrace Drew Mrs. \Voodvale, New road

Bartlett Jasper,Frogwell,Mt.Pleasant rd Burlace Mrs. Melville, New road Drew Mrs. 15 New road

Bartlett Michael Humphrey, Frogwell, Calley Miss, Drew st. Higher Brixham Drew Samuel, South Furzeham road

Mount Pleasant road CalleyMrs.6St.Kildater.High.Brixham Dugdall Mrs. 32 New road

Bartlett Samuel Richard, Trewidden, Came Wm.2St.Mary"ster.High.Brixhm Edwards Henry, Furzeham hill

Mount Pleasant road Carey Rev. Adolphus Frederick M..!, Edwards Mrs. Upton vil. High. Brixham

Beer Mrs. South view, Church street Vicarage, Higher Bri:xham Edwards Miss, Pretor house, Drew

IBennallack William, Dashper house, Carlisle Cha.s. School ho.Mt. Pleasant rd street, Higher Brixham •
Higher Brixham · Chilcote Robert Comyn, Laywell villa, 1·EElllliiootttt George Blacker, 4 Bolton street
Berry Miss, Spring gardens, Bolton st Higher Brixbam :Mrs. 2g New road

86 BRIXHAM.. DEYONSHI~E.r

Ellis Henry Pitts, Prospect house,Nor~h Martin Jn. C. jun. Luzon,High. Brixham, Souper Rev. Francis Abraham M.A.

Furzeham road Martin John Charles, sen. Nut Tree cot- (chaplain & sec. Bntish Seamen's

Ellis John Archer, Montpelier lodge, tage, Higher .Brixbam Orphan Boys' home), Rock house
Sparkes Jon :f. Bolton street
Furzeham hill Martin William R. Rea Barn road
Elson George, 24 Bolton street Matthews By. Myrtle cot. High. Brixhm Sprague Mrs. so Bolton street

Emett Mrs. 6 Furzeham terrace MoyleMiss,Black house, Higher Brixham Steer Frederick, Avon ho. Furzeham hi

Fletcher Wm. I Bellevue ter. Cavern rd Mudge Miss, Milton st. Higher Brixham Stevens John Henry, 31 13oltoll street

Fo.;well Rd. 4 Bellevue ter. Cavern rd Murray David, 3 St. Elmo, New road Stevens Mrs. Fnrzeham hou!le, South

Fogwell S. W.(Mu.), 4 St. Elmo,New rd MurrayWm.3St.Kilda ter.High.Brixhm Furzeham road

Fox Edward, Cintra ho. S.l<'urzeham rd Narraway Edward George Alexander, Stever.son John, Milton cottage,Higher
Franks James, Furzeham hill
Roc.tt mount, Rea Barn hill · Brixhsm

Gasking Mrs. I Undercliffe, Bolton st Newton Isaac Johnson, 56 Bolton street Stockman Thomas, Hope cott.Bolton st

Gillard Mrs. Black ho. High. Brixham Norris Edward, Parkham wood Stokes Frank, South Furzeham road

Gorley Mrs. 7 Bolton street. Nowell Thos.Milton st. Higher Brixham Syruons Richd. Harris, Bank ho.Fore st

Green Mrs. Burton. street Oakford Jas. 2 Bellevue ter, Cavern rd Symons Thomas, Claremont, Drew

Green Wm. Burton vil. Higher Brixham Olver Rev. Richd.[Cong. ], II lVIanor ter street, Higher Brixham

Green William, s New road · Pearce Mrs. Woodvale, New road Tapper Mrs. Burton street

Hall Harry, Cavern road PearceMrs.7St.Kilda ter.High.Brixham Trist Miss, Clifton vil.Higher Manor rd

Hall Rev. Richard, The Lodge, Milton Pedrick Mrs. Upton vil. High. Brixham Tully William George, West Hill villas
street, Higher BL'ixham
Perreyman Richard Welland, South Tyrer Mrs. Dashper st. Higher Brixhm
Harper William, Burton street
Furzeham road Tyrer Mrs. 5 Rockland terrace

Harris John, 21 New road Philp J olm Lane, I I Grotto terrace Underhay Mise, Berry Head road

Harvey Charles J. Fore street Ptke Herbert Cobden, Fore street Upham Andrew, Bellevue

Hawkins Henry, Furzeham hill Pile Mrs. 10 Bolton street Upham Misees, 2 Bolton street

Hayward Arthur Ernest, West Hill vil$: Pitts WilliamWa.ring Clarke,Fernholm, Varwell John Peter, Norville, New rd

Hellings Henry, 3 Rockland terrace Mount Pleasant road VarwellMrs. sSt.Kilda ter. High. Brixhm

Hogg Misses, Berryhead house Pring John Wheaton, Fernleigh Varwell Peter, 2 Undercliffe, Bolton st

HollidayMrs.2St.Kilda ter.High.Brixhm Putt John, 4 Manor terrace Varwell Peter, jn.Capri, S. Furzehm.rd

HollowayJn. ISt.Mary's tr.High.Brixhm Richardson Mrs. King street • Varwell William, Norville, New road
VeallJohn,Orchard villa, HigherBrixhm
Hooker Miss, 2 Rockland terrace Saunders Mrs. Ashleigh

Hyne Mrs. Lauriston, New road Scoble Mrs. I Bolton 11treet Vittery Mrs. 40 New road

Johnson Joseph, South Furzeham road Searle George Clement, Burton house, Voysey Rev. Annesley Muntagu B.A.

J ones Mrs. Cedars Burton street [curate in charge of St. Peter's],

Kendrick Alfred, 10 New road Shears Richard, 58 Bolton street Rock bank west

Kendrick Mrs. 41 New road Silley Capt. William, Parkham Wheaton James Winsor, Pa.rkham,

KendrickMrs. HillSide ho. High. Manr.rd SimRev.Stewart M.A.AllSaints'vicarage Whittick Miss, 33 Bolton street

Lakeman Thomas, jun. Lindthorpe Small James, Middle street Wilkinson William, 13 New road

Lakeman Thos. sen. Springdale, New rd Smith John Frederjck, 2I Bolton street Willcocks Mrs. 34 Bolton street

Lewis Mrs. Hill cottage, Higher Brixhm Smith William, 30 New road Wintle Mrs. 2 tit. Elmo, New road

Llewellyn Llewellyn J.P. Nethway Snell William, South Furzeham road ' Wyatt William, 52 Bolton street

Macrae Alexander, Burton street

COMMERCIAL• Brewer William, fish buyer, Prospect place

.Adams William Thomas, fisherman, King street Brewer William, boot & shoe maker, 23 Fore street

Allery Emma Victoria (Mrs.), draper, I2 Fore street • Bridge Alice (Mrs.), fish merchant, Quay

Alward Ann (Mrs.), linen draper, I2 Bolton street Bridge Henry, shopkeeper, Quay

Alward William, smack owner, 2 South Furzeham road British Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home (Rev.Francis A.Souper

Apter James Badgery, Manor inn, Higher street M.A. chaplain & sec.), Berry Head road

Arscott Abel, shopkeeper, Quay Brixham Fishing Smack Insurance Society Limited (Alfred

Ash Charles Gibbs, Waterman's Arms P.H. & butcher,Drew Kendrick, sec.), King street

street, Higher Brixham Brixham Football Club (W. S. Ellis, hon. sec.), Drew's hotel

Ashford Catherine (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Middle street Brixham Gas Co. Limited (Jasper Bartlett, manager;

Bailey Elizabeth (Mrs.),dairy, Greenswood rd.High.Brixhm William G. Cayme, sec.), Fore street

Baker Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, King street Brixham Ice Co. (James Bigwood, proprietor), Quay

Bamberry Susan (Mrs.), baker, King street • Brixham Steam Capstan Engine Boiler & Iron BallaMt Insur-
Banfield & Sons, fish merchants, Quay ance Co. Limited (Alfred Kendrick, sec.), King street

Baufield Arthur, George hotel, Quay Brokenshire Frederick, confectioner, Fore street

Bardens William, smack owner, 7 Torbay crescent Brokenshire Richard, block maker, Beach alley, Beach

Bartlett Brothers, grocers, provision & ale & porter mer- Brooking Richard Henry, smack owner, 4 l:3th. Furzeham rd

chants, & agents for W. & .A, Gilbey, wine & spirit mer- Brown Thomas Searle, auctioneer, Bolton hotel

chants, Fore street Browning James, master mariner, Burton street

Bartlett & Roberts, solicitors, 3 Fore street ; & at Paignton Browning John, coal dealer, 5 l<'urzeham terrace

& Dartmouth Bubeer Thomas, rope maker, Church street

Bartlett.Atherton, auctioneer, valuer & licensed appraiser, Buckingham George, master marinerl Overdale, Mount

3 Fore street Pleasant road

Bartlett Onesimus Smart (firm, Bartlett & Roberts), solici- Budd John William, dairyman, North Fnrzeham road

tor, notary public & commissioner for oaths & town clerk Bulgin George John, manager National Provincial Bank of

of Dartmouth & clerk to the justices of Paignton division, England ; treasurer to the Brixham harbour & market

3 Fore street; & at Paignton & Dartmouth commissioners, Lower Brixham local board, Higher Brix..

Bartlett Peter, fisherman, King street ham lighting inspectors & Brixham school board

Batten Thomas J. shopkeeper, 26A, Bolton street Bunker Sybella (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Church street

Bedford Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 62 Bolton street Burgoyne Louisa Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, u Fore street

Beer Susan (Mrs.), baker, Middle street Burgoyne Michael, smack owner, Over~ang

Beer Thomas, jun. butcber, 33 Fore street Burgoyne Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Torbay terrace

Bell John, farmer, Higher Brixham Calley Willi&.m, clerk to the Lower Brixham local board, 4

Bell Robert, dairyman, Drew street, Higher Brixham St. Kilda terrace, Higher Brixham

Bell Samuel, miller (water), Bolton street Calley William, watch maker, Bnrton street

Bickell John, baker & confectioner, 17l"ore street Came John M. farmer, Woodhuish, Higher .Brixham

Bird William, smack owner, 7 Fore street Campion Robert, fisherman, 5 South Furzeham road

Blackler Geo. fly proprietor, Horsepool st. Higher Brixham Cann Wm.& Son, seedsmen, 54 Forest.& farmers, Berryhead

Blackler Henry, dairyman, Middle street Cann John, jobbing gardener, Rea Barn road

Blackler Wm. marine store dlr. Da.ghper st. Higher Brixhm Carbis Thomas, Town Arms P.H. Drew st. Higher Brixham
Blackmore William, fisherman, 5 Torbay terrace
Cayme William Glyde, chemist, grocer & spirit dealer,

Blake John, cooper, Overgang Beach house, Fore street ·

Bond James, fisherman, Burton street Chapman John Wellington, Huller's Arms inn, Beach

Bonner Wm. baker, 68 ,Bolton st. & Drew "t. High.Brixham Clark George, boot maker, 8 Fore street

Bovey John, ship owner, 55 Bolton street Cole George, Blue Anchor inn, ·37 Fore.street

Bowden Charles, shopkeeper, Middle street Collings Varwell, ironmonger, Beach

Bradden William J ames, assessor & collector of income Collings Samuel Tucker, ship smith, Pump street
Collings William, master marinf'r, 4 New road
taxes, South Furzeham road ·
Constitutional Club (Working & Fishermen's) (Frederick-
Bray James, smack owner, Furzeham hill

:Brewer Francis, dairyman, Burton street Harley, hon. sec.), Bolton street

DIKECIORY.J DEVONSHIRE. 87

Couch Henr:y Browne, house decorator1 6 St. Mary's terrace, Green Vittery A.t>.S. chemist & druggist, t6 Fore street
Higher Brixham Gregory Charles, shopkeeper, Furzebam hill ·

.Cove William, .baker, Middle street Gregory SaTab (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Paradise place

.Cranford James, bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder Gregory William Charles, fish salesman, Quay

& stamp distl'ibutor1 5 Fore street · Hall Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, King street
Hammett George, town crier & bill poster, 19 Fore street
Crees William Henry, wheelwright, Mount Pleasant road

Crees WilL jun. wheelwright, Milton st. Higher Bri:xham Hammett John, dairyman, Bnrton street

.Crowte John & Son, sail makers, Overgang , Hannaford Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Middle street

.Crowte Christopher, boot & shoe maker, 62 Fore street Harley Samuel, fish ,merchant, Middle street

.Crowte Edward F. harness maker, 28 Fore street Harper William, boot & shoe dealer, 20 Fore street

.Crowte William, master mariner, Mount Pleasant road Harris Richard, beer retailer, Middle street

.Crowte William, jun. stationer, 56 Fore street 1 Harris William, farmer, Nut Tree farm, Higher Brixham

Custom House (I. J. Newton, chief officer) Hart John Thomas, smack owner, Rockland terrace

Dart Robert.. dairyman, Milton street, Higher Brixham Hayman Philip, bricklayer, Berry Head common

.Davey Philip, shopkeeper, Milton street, Higher Brixham Hayward Arthur Ernest, surgeon & public vaccinator, Brix•

l)avis John, boot & shoe maker, 36 Fore street ham & Churston districts of Totnes union, West Hill vils

Davis Martin, baker, Drew street, Higher Brixham Haywood Charles, shopkeeper, Union street

Decent John Putt, draper, 4 Fore street Hazelwood Brothers, builders, Mount Pleasant road

Devonshire (1st) Volunteer Artillery, Western Division Royal Hazelwood William Robert, builder, Mount Pleasant road

Artillery (a Co.) (Major Lord Churston, commanding; Heath Thomas, dyer, 37 New road

W. W. Widdicombe, lieut. ; Surgeon-Lieut. George Hele Charles King, Prince of Wales P.H. Quay

Clement Searle, medical officer; Rev. Stewart Sim M.A. Hele John King, shopkeeper, Milton street, Higher Brixham

acting cbaplain ; Sergeant-Major W. Hall, drill instructor), Hellings Ida. {Miss), milliner, 12 New road
Drill hall, New Market bldngs.; head quarters, 2 New rd Hellings Susan (~rs. ), shopkeeper, North Furzeham road

J)evon & Cornwall Banking Co. Limited (Richard Harris Hill J ames George, fisherman, Furzeham hill

Symons, mgr.), Fore st.; draw on Barclay & Co. London Hill Mary Elizabeth ()lrs. ), shopkeeper, Beach

Devon & Exeter Savings Bank (Miss Brooking, agent) Hill Susannah Farleigh (Mrs.), Commercial inn, Quay

.Dewdney Samuel & Sons, ship & boat builders, King street Hoare Samuel, sail maker, Overgang

Dickers John, fish salesman, Overgang Hockin Philip Roe, solicitor & commissioner for oaths &

J)ickers Wm. smack owner, West view, South Furzeham rd auditor for Brixham harbour commissioners' accounts

Doidge William, coffee tavern, 51 Fore street Hockings Mary (Miss), dresa maker, Baker's bill, Higher

Dowling Christopher, fisherman, n New road Brixham

Downton William, sail maker, 6 Bolton street & Pump st Hodson Charles Edward, grocer, Beach

Drew Jeffery, smack owner, Overgang Holland George, smack owner, 64 Bolton street

Drew Richard & Co. Limited, wine & spirit mers. Fore st Holmes George, chimney sweeper, Middle street

.Drew Susannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper,Drew st.Higher Brixham Hooper Henry, mineral water manufacturer, Bolton street

Drew Samuel, cooper, Pump street Hope Fanny (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bank street

.Dugdall Saml. Fox, auctioneer & fish salesman & registrar of Hosford John Richard, fisherman, Inkerman, Furzeham hill

births & deaths & marriages for Brixham sub-dist. King st Hosford William, smack owner, Higher street

Dugdall William Henry, smack owner, Melville, New road Hosgood George, builder, Bolton street

Dunstone Nicholas, ironmonger, York square .Howard George, engineer, Quay

.Earle Maria Hyne (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Mount Pleasant road Howard WiHiam, boot & shoe maker, 45 Fore street

Edwards Charles James, Lopes Arms P.H. Overgang Howe Alexander, smack owner, 10 Fore street

.Edwards Richard William, beer retailer, 13 Middle street Huxtable Harriet (.Miss), shopkeeper, Middle street

..Edwards Susannah (Mrs.), outfitter, 52 Fore street Jackman Robert, boat builder, Berry Head road

.Elliott Samuel & Son, rope makers, 66 Bolton street Jackman Samuel, boot maker, Drew st. Higher Brixham

Elliott Charles, farmer, Lupton Barton Jackman Thomas, fish merchant, l''ish street

.Elliott Christ{)pher,farmer, Greenover farm, Higher Brixham Jackson Minnie & Ada (Misses), ladies' boarding school,

.F;lliott Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker, Middle street Rockvale house

Elliott George B. L.R.c.s.I. surgeon, & admir;1lty surgeon & James George1 fisherman, Furzeham bill

agent, 4 Bolton street James John Thompson, dairyman, 32 Fore street

.Elliott Henry Putt, ironmonger & cycle agent, 57 Fore st James Robert, smack owner, Rockvale New road

.Elliott Robert, boot. maker, Paradise place Jeffery James, smack owner, Furzeham hill

Elliott Mary (Mrs.), fish merchant, Quay • Jefferys Sarah Tucker (Mrs.), boot dealer, Quay

Ellis John, smack owner, 4 Torbay terrace Jewell Thomas, dairyman, King street

Ellis Richard, smack owner, King street Jocelyn George, Maritime inn, King street

Elson Thomas, draper, 13 l''ore street Johns George, smith, Island

England Thomas, basket maker, Overgang J ohnson&Son,butchers,Beach & Horsepool st.HigherBrixham

Evans Rebecca. (Miss), dress maker, 39 New road . Johnson Alfred James, tailor & hosier, Beach

Fast Elizabeth (Mrs.), greengrocer, Paradise street Johnson George King Hele, butcher, :Middle street

.Ferris John, farmer, Belmont, Higher Brixham Johnsou John, mariner, 12 Furzeham terrace

Ferris William, farmer, Upton manor Johnson Richard King Hele, blacksmith, Mount Pleasant rd

.Flannigan Michael, Burton hotel, Burton street Johnson Samuel, tish salesman, Quay

Fletcher William Brown (Mrs.), ha1r dresser, 44 Fore street Jones Andrew Howison Putt, quarryman & haulier, Mount

Fogwell Sabina (Miss), milliner, 35 New road Pleasant road

.Foot Henry, baker, Milton street, Higher Brixham Jones Charles, boat builder, St. Peter's hill

Foster William, shopkeeper, Higher street Jones Christr. Lewis1 jobbing gardener, Milton street, High.
.Fowler Sophia. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, .Overgang · Brixham

.Fox John Henry, grocer, 63 Fore street Jones Elizabeth Ellen (Miss), ladies' day school, Rockend

Foxworthy Sarah Jane (Mrs.), dress maker, 17 New road Jordain George, smack owner & grocer, Mount Pleasant rd

.Freemasons' Hall (Thomas Harris, sec.), Church street Jordain Samuel, smack owner, 57 Bolton street

Friend James, smack owner~ South Furzeham road Kendrick William Gibbs & f3on, ship brokers, Lloyd's agents

.Furneaux George, block & spar maker, King street & coal merchants, King street

•Gardner George, fisherman, Pomeroy court Kendrick George, china & glass dealer, 18 Bolton street

-Gempton Joseph, eating house, Quay Kennedy William Sydney, ironmctnger, Beach

>Gibson Frederick John, confectioner, 53 Fore street Kitto Frederick, photographer, New road

Qibson John l''rederick, beer ret~tiler~ King street Knowles Samuel, hair dresser, Beach

Gilberd Nellie (Miss), dress maker. South. .Furzeham road Lake William., marine store dealer, Quay

oGiles Joseph, fish buyer, South Fur:~;eh~m road Lakeman Thomas, jun. rnaltster & brewer, Fore street

Hiles Mary (Mrs.), greengroc~r, Middle street Lamswood Richard, block & spar maker, Overgang

-Giles lUcbard, fish merchant,. Rae Burn hill Lamswood William, block & spar maker, King street

-Gill Ann (Mrs.), toy dealer, 42 Fore street Lane Thomas Henry, fisherman, Church street

·Gillard G-eorge Frederick, shopkeeper, Quay Lang Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Higher street

Gillard Samuel. farmer, Higher Brixham Lang William, smack owner, 6 Grotto terrace

Hillard Samuel, smack owner, Ranscombe 1 Lear William, smack owner. North f'urzeham road

'Glanville Joha, mariner, I Furzeham terrace Lee Edward, master mariner, King street

oGheman Adolph, pianoforte tuner, 24 Fore etreet · Lee Elizabeth (Miss), milliner, 19 New road

Goad JQhn, carpenter, Church street Lee Emma (Miss), smack ~wner, King street

(iwdman &!,muel, boot ma. Horsepool st. Hi_~her Brixham Lee Fanny {Miss), dress maker, King street

Gorman John, fish buyer, 65 Bolton street Lee Herbert, master mariner, Brook clift, New road
Grl)nt Henry Sharland, shopkeep~r, Quay
Lee Philips, sm.ack owner, King street

Great Western Railway Co. (William Derry & Co. agents) Lee Thoma8, grocer &e. King street

88 BRIXBA"M. DEVONSHIRE.

Liberal Club (H. P. Elliott, hon. sec.; R. W. Perreyman, Roberts William Pierpoint (firm, Bartlett & Rflb&rts)~ solici..

hon. treasurer), King street tor, 3 Fore street

Lit;tle Edward Henry, boot & shoe maker, 70 Bolton street Rogers John T. refreshment rooms, Railway station

Lock Henry, smack owner, 10 Torbay crescent Rolstone Thomas, Shotover inn, Higher street

Lock Samuel, smack owner, 12 Torbay crescent Royal National Life Boat Institution (A. Kendrick, hon ..

Lock Sarah (Mrs.), smack owner, King street sec.), Berry Head road

Lockyer Edward, builder & contractor, 67A, Bolton street Sanders Susan .Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Middle street

Loram Elizabeth (Mrs.), greengrocer, Middle street Sanders William Jeffery, fish salesman, Quay

Loram John, pork butcher, Pump street Sandford Emma (Mrs.}, ironmonger, 21 Fo.re street

Lovell John Williams, auctioneer & upholsterer,69 Bolton st Scevill John Gibbs, grocer, 8 Bolton street

Lovell Thomas George, smack owner, Higher street Scoble Stephen, shopkeeper, Burton street

Lowe .Andrew, boot & shoe maker, 27 Fore street Searle George Clement, surgeon, medical officei' Brixham,

Loye George, smack owner, 2 Torbay terrace & Churston districts, Totnes union,medical officer vf health

Loye George, j1,1n. smack owner, 2 Torbay terrace to local board,& certifying factory surgeon, Burton house~,

Lm;combe ~amuel T. smack owner, 5 Manor terrace Burton street

Luscombe William, farmer, Higher Brixham Sharpham George, Crown & Anchor inn, Quay

Maddick Ellen (Miss), apartments, Berry Head road Shears & Miller, smiths, Island

Maddick Nicholas, shopkeeper, 1 Middle street Sheppard Charles, cooper, Overgang

Manning Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 49 Fore street Shinner Edward, baker & confectioner, 29 Fore street

Market Hall (W. H. Screvill, caretaker), New road Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners' Royal Benel'"olent

Mathews Alfred G. draper, Fore street Society (Miss Browse, hon. sec.), Rose lawn, Burton st.

Matthews Chas. Rogers, bla<'ksmith,Milton st.HigherBrixhm Shrives Charles, stone mason, Bolton street

Matthews Jeffery Drew, cabinet maker, 59 Fore street Silley John, master mariner, 3 New road

Matthews John, mariner, Orchard cottage, Higher Brixham Silley Thomas, builder, Higher Brixham

Maunder James, builder, Berry Head common Sins Melissa (Miss), lodging house, 6 Rockland terrace·

Maunder John, farmer, Higher Brixham Small William, smack owner, Overgang

May Bertha (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Higher street Smardon Richard Narramore, shopkeeper, 55 Fore street

May Henry, shopkeeper, King street Smith John, master mariner, 36 Kew road

May Henry, jun. paperhanger, I4 Fore street Smith John Cornish, tailor, 43 Fore street

Medway Robert., boot maker, 16 Bolton street Smith Nicholas, assistant overseer & collector, 6 Manor ter

Miller Simon, farmer, Castor farm, Higher Brixham Smith Samuel, tailor, 75 Fore street

Mincbinton William, watch & clock maker, I Fore street Smith William, nurseryman,Drayton lodge, Higher Brixham.

J\Iorrisb John, master mariner, 35 Bolton street Spark Frances (Mrs.), pork butcher, Middle street

Moxey William, smack owner, l<'urzeham bill Spark James, undertaker, 9 Fore street

Mudge Henry, master mariner, 44 Bolton street Spark William Philalethes, clerk to harbour & market corn-·

Mugford Robert, shipwright, New road missioners & school board, I New road

MurrayWilliam, artist, 3 Ht. Kilda terrace,Higher Brixham Sprague John, Queen's hotel, Station road

Mutter James, fish salesman, I Rockland terrace Sprague Samuel, tobacconist, 71 Bolton street

National Provincial Bank of England Limited (branch of) Spurdens Thomas, commission agent, Laurel cotts. New rd'

(G. J. Bulgin, manager), Fore street; draw on head Squires Thomas, farmer, South down, Higher Brixham

office, London E c Squires Thomas Edward, butcher, King street

National Telephone Co. Limited; call offices, IA, Fore street Srodzinski Henry T. furniture dealer, Bolton street

& Quay Srodzinski Samuel, furniture dealer, 41 Fore street

Newman Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker, Milton street, Stapleton James, smack owner, Pomeroy court

Higher Brixham Stevens Ann Gorley (Mrs.), tailoress & statnr. 39 & 40 Forest

Newman George Franklin, chemist, IA, Fore street Stevens John, smack owner, North Furzeham road

Nicholls Jeffery John, farmer, Radicombe Stockman Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 3 Torbay terrace

Norris Edward, general draper, 76 Fore street Stone Hannah (Miss), grocer, 46 Fore street

Norris John Gardner, sewing machine agent, Drew street Summers James, fisherman, Church street

Norris John William, greengrocer, 1\Eddle street Summers John, fisherman, Church street

l'arker William Henry, corn dealer, Beach Summers William Richard, fisherman, King street

Partridge Philip, smack owner, Cavern road Swaffin Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker, King street

Peach John, shopkeeper, Middle street Swaffin John Phillips, boot & shoe dealer, 6 Fore street

Pearce Barnabas Ambrose, baker, Beach Sydenham J ames, fisherman, Berry Head road

l'earce Edwin, master mariner, Bolton street Symons George, baker, 2 Middle street

Pearce J obn :Frank, tailor, 22 Fore street Symons Richard Harris, manager Devon & Cornwall Bank-

Pearce Robert, painter &c. 6I Fore street ing Co. Limited, Fore street

Pengilly John Ash, tailor, 71 Fore street Tamlin Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Burton street

Pepperell William, baker, Middle street Tapper John Herbert (Mrs.), Globe hotel, 26 :Fore street

Perkins Edward, shoe dealer, 72 Fore street Taylor Richard, dairyman, Drew street, Higher Brixham

Perram Sarah (Mrs.), shopkpr. Milton st. Higher Brixham Taylor Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Burton street

Perrett Charles, smack owner, Mount Pleasant 1oad '!'hacker Joseph, Old Rock inn, Level crossing

Perrett Elijab, smack owner, Berry Head road Thomas Saml. market gardener,Horsepool st.High.Brixham.

Perrett Henry, smack owner, Berry Head road Thomas William, greengrocer, Fore street

Perrett Thomas Henry, smack owner, Bay view Thorning William, boot maker, Higher street

Peters John, carrier, Windmill hill, Mount Pleasant Tinkham John, fisherman, King street

Petterson Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Overgang Torbay (The) Paint Co. (proprietors, Stevens & Co)

Philip John Ernest, cabinet maker, 73 Fore street Torbay Steam Ship Co. Limited (Peter Varwell, sec.);:.

Pine .Ann (Mrs.), greengrocer, Middle street office, ]\'"ew road

Pitts William, butcher, York square Towell John, baker, Greenwood road, Higher Brixham

Police Station (George G. Potter, sergeant in charge), 'frant William Samuel, ship smith, King street

Cavern road Tribble Peter Waycott, Golden Lion P.H. New road

Poole William, blacksmith, Burton street Trist Charles, painter, Station bill

Poole Wm. Widdcombe, Bull inn, Drew st. Higher Brixham Trust John, Victory inn, Quay

Pope John, dairyman, Church hill Tucker & Co. ironmongers, Beach

Popham John, master mariner, Burton street Tully Gilbert, dairyman, 68 Bolton street

Potter Robert, butcher, 25 Fore street Tully John Skardon, farmer, Upton farm

Presswood William Benjamin, London inn, 13 Fore street 'fully William, butcher, Fore street

Preston William, smack owner, 6 'forbay terrace Tyrer George, grocer, 34 Fore street

Private Reading & Billiard Room ( S. F. Dugdall, sec.), Tyrer William, coal merchant, Fore street

Fore street Upbam Jn. Wm. & Andrew, ship & boat buildersr King stt;

Prowse Susan (Mrs.), dress maker, 13 Bolton street Varwell John Peter, rope & twine manufacture1r

Puckett Charles, grocer, 5 Bolton street Varwell Peter, ship owner, Capri, South FurzeiJam road.

Putt .Annie (Miss), tobacconist, Quay Veale James, shopkeeper, Drew street, Higher &l'ix.ha;m.

Putt Frank, Rising Sun P.H. Quay Vickery Wllliam Wilson, tailor, York square

Putt Richard, carrier, Overgang Vittery Henry, fancy repository, 35 Fore street

Putt William PGolc, master mariner, 37 New road Volunteer Fire Brigade (F. King, captain), Engine bouse-y

Radford Robert, fisherman, 9 Manor terrace Bolton street

RichardsEliza (Miss),dress maker, Margetta cottage,Horse- Ward William, jobbing gardener, Milton st. Higher Brixbam.

pool street, Higher Brixham "ratts George, painter, Pump street

Richards Maria (Miss), milliner, 3I New road Webber James, shopkeeper, Drew street, Higher Brixham

Richardson Grace (Mrs.), smack owner, King street Wells John William, chimney sweeper, Temperance place-

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BROADCLYST.

Westcott Mary (Mrs.), baker, Quay Williams Peter, fancy repository & hair dresser, IS Forest.
Williams Thomas, grocer, Beach
Wheaton James, harbour master, Parkham Wills John, carpenter, New road
Wille William, builder, Berry Head road
Wheaton John, sail maker, Furzeham hill Windass William Smith, fisherman, Sunnyside
Windsor Castle Coffee Tavern (J n.Youlden, propr. ),Middle si>
Wheaton Nicholas, master mariner, 29 Bolton street Windsor W1lliam, fish salesman, Higher terrace
Withycombe Alfred, boot & shoe maker, Mount Pleasant rd
Whidden Richard (Mrs.), furnit:1re dealer, King street Woodruff Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Middle street
Wotton John Thomas, smack owner, King street
White Samuel, shopkeeper, Ranscombe . Wyatt Thomas, builder, 54 Bolton street
Wyatt William, builder, Mount Pleasant road
Widdicombe William Henry, surveyor & inspector of nui- Young Robert, basket maker, Quay

sances to local board, Four views

Willcocks Samuel, mason, Rea Barn hill

Williams Bertha (Miss), milliner, I Torbay terrace

Williams James Bennetts, grocer & draper, Drew street,

Higher Brixham

Williams Josiah, tinplate worker, Island

BRIXTON is a parish and village on the road from Ply- anciently resident here, as were also the Calmady, Copies-

mouth to Modbury, 3 miles south-east from Plympton sta- ton, Drake, J<'ortescue, Maynard and Pollexfen families ; the

tion on the South Devon section of the Great Western rail- Heles held the mansion in the I7th century, and in I635.
way and 5 east from Plymouth, in the Southern division of Elize Hele, of Wollaton, bequeathed it with his other estates-
the county, Plympton hundred, Ermington and Plympton to charitable uses. Joseph Winser esq. of London, who is.
petty sessional division, East 8tonehouse county court dis- lord of the manor, Hawtrey Collins-Splatt esq. of Brixtoa
trict, Plympton St. Mary union, rural deanery of Plymp- House, Mr. Joseph Cane, Baldwin John Pollexfen Bastard
ton, archdeaconl")' of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The esq. D.L., J.P. of Kitley, Sir Francis G. A. Fuller-Eliott-
church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the Perpandicular Drake, of Nutwell Court, Exeter; John Kingwell esq. of
and earlier styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, South Brent, and Mr. William Peter Vosper, of Merati«;~ld,.
south porch and a lofty embattled western tower containing Plympton St. Mary, are the principal landowners. The soil

a clock and 5 bells, all cast by Abel Rudhall, of Gloucester, is loamy; subsoil. limestone. The chief crops are wheat,

in 1737: the church was partially restored in 1887, and barley and green crops. The area is 2, 999 acres ; rateable.
affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1668. value, £5,408; the population in 1891 was 622.

The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £x6o, net £143, Sexton, William West.
with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Wind-
sor, and held since 188g by the Rev. Henry James Warner PosT& M. 0. 0., S. B.& Annuity & Insurance Office. John
M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge. A charity of about Stone, postmaster. Letters received from Plymouth at-

£29 yearly, derived from parish lands, is equally divided 6.35 a.m. & 3·35 p.m.; dispatched at 10.25 a m & 6.3<>-
between the poor and general church purposes. The Ken- p.m.; sundays, arrive at 6.35 a. m.; dispatched at I0.25-
naway endowment, founded in I874 and amounting to p.m. The nearest telegraph office IS at Yealmpton

£2 1os. yearly, is equally divided between the poor and the National School (mixed), for 140 children; average attend-
schools. A family, taking its name from this place, was ance, 79; John Philip Wheeler, master

Anderson-Morshead Misses, Wiverton Coleman Saml.blacksmith & dairyman Rowe Edward, overseer, Veal Holm

Collins-Splatt Hawtrey, Brixton house Coleman Samuel, jun. butcher Rowe Hy. farmer, Wapplewa1l&Hartley

Collins-Splatt Misses, Brixton lodge Elliot Charley, baker & shopkeeper Rowe Thos.farmer,Coombe & Ford brk.

Grier Mrs Goad Charles, boot maker Scoble James, farmer, Harestone

James Capt. Henry, Spriddlestone Hallett John Salter, farmer, Sherford SmerdonWm.Richd.frmr,Spriddleston~

Moon James Edward, Cloudesleigh barton & Higher Hareston Sparks William & Son,farmers & da.iry-

·warner Rev.HenryJames M.A. Vicarage Harvey James, farmer, Halwell men, South farm

Yonge James Edmund James Edward, carpenter Stooke Edward, farmer, Wiverton

COMMERCIAL. Newman James, farmer, Spriddlestone Stooke James, farmer, East Sherford

Cane Joseph, yeoman, Venn farm Partridge Matthew, farmer Stone John, grocer,. Post office

Chadder Frederick, butcher Pearse William Hflnry, farmer, Butles Turpin James, farmer, Chittleburne

Chaffe Richard, Fox Hound inn Rogers John, market gardener,Coombe Toms William, farmer, Spriddlestone.

Cockrem Edmund Parnell, farmer, Rowe Edwd.& Saml.farmers, VealHolm Weeks Charles, boot maker •
Wollaton

BROADCLYST is a parish, with a station, I~ miles founded by deed in I862, for increasing the stipend of the

south-east from the village, on the main line of the London inmates of these almshouse:'l and supplying them with coals ;;.

and South Western railway, 166~ from London and 5 miles other charities of £68 4s. yearly value are distributed iiL

north-east from Exeter, in the North Eastern division of the bread and money, and there are educational endowments

county, Cliston hundred, Wonford pettv sessional division, amounting to £34 IOS. yearly. On Killerton Hill is a camp.

St. Thomas' union, county court district of Exet-er, rural Kiilerton, the residence of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke

deanery of Aylesbeare and archdeaconry and diocese of Acland hart. P.C., n.c.L., D.L., J.P. stands in a beautiful

Exeter. The church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient expanse of well-wooded land, interi!ected by the river Culm,_

building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, repaired about and well stocked with game and deer: the park, which is.

1834, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and ISO acres in extent, affords very fine views of the surround-

an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a ing country for many miles, including Dartmoor to the west,.

clock and 6 bells, all cast by Thomas Bilbie in 1768, from a Woodbury to the south and Black Down to the eaSt ; within

previous peal of 5, by licence of the bishop, and recently the park stands the domestic chapel of the Holy Evangelists,.

( 1893) rehung: the church retains three stone sedilia, with attached to which is a private burial ground. Sprydoncote.

buttresses and pinnacles and rich foliaged canopies: in the is the residence of Lady Walrond. The manor was some-

south wall of the chanceL is a fine monument, with the effi2:y time held by the Chudleigh family, who became possessed.

of a knight, in plate armour, probably representing Sir of it through the marriage of John Chudleigh wiih Jane-

Roger de Nonant, c. I350, whose family held the manor of (Beauchamp), daughter of Sir John Beauchamp and Alice

Broadclyst, from the re1gn of Henry I. to that of Edward (Nonant) his wife. Giles Reynolds Ayshford esq. who is

Ill. : here also is a tomb and monument to Henry Borough, lord of the manor, the Right Hon. Sir 'l'homas Dyke Acland

gent. and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of George Reynell hart. Lord Poltimore P.c., D.L. 9 .J.P. Thomas Wish, Richard
esq. of Malston, dated 1605: on the north and south faces Merry, William Merry, Henry Trump and John Trump-

of the tower are quartered shields, with the coats of Chud- esqrs. are chief landowners. The soil is chiefly loam and

leigh, Merton and Nonant: there are four memorial win- clay; subsoil, gravel. The crops are roots and cereals ;

dows : the church affords goo sittings. The regislers date acreage, 9,188 ; rateable value,{.I8,757 ; the population in..

from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, average tithe I891 was 2,003.

rent-charge £38o, gross yearly income £775• with residence The hamlets of BERE to the north, and WESTWOOD to the-
and 73 acres of glebe, in the gift of G. R. Ayshford esq. and west, are each 3 miles distant.
held since 1845 by the Rev. Peter Leopold Dyke Acland M.A. Parish Clerk, Thomas Trickey.
of Christ Chmch, Oxford, prebendary and sub-de:.m of
Exeter, and surrogate. The chapel of St. Paul, Westwood, POST9 M. 0. & T. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.
erected in 1873, out of trust funds provided by A. H. D. and -,James Maddock, postmaster. Letters received from
C. A. W. Troyte esqrs. lay impropriators of the rectorial Exeter at 4·5~ a.m. & 2.I5 p.m.; dispatched at 12.25 &;

tithes, and consecrated Jan. I9, 1874, is a building of stone 7.56 p.m
in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave and a There is-a WALL Box, cleared at 7.20 p.m. week. days only

small western turret containing one bell. Here is also a & one at Railway station9 cleared at 7 a.m. & 7 p.m. &.
Eaptist chapel, erected in 1883. Burroug-hes' Almshouses. one at Killerton, cleared at 6.45 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. & at.
built by Mr. Henry Burroughes and endowed by him by
Westwood, cleared at 7 a.m. only

will in I6o5 with £23 us. were rebuilt by subscription in Royal Ist Devon Yeomanry Cavalry (D troop), Capt. B. C.

1854 and consist of 12 rooms for I2 single inmates. The Cleave. officer tn command; Sergt.-Major Barker, drill
"'Barker" fund, of about £496 £2i per Cent. Consols, was m• structor

BRO.ADCLYST• DEVO~SHIRE. (KELLY'S.

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SCHOOLS 0 l School, Budlake (mixed), for So children; average attend•

• ance, 4J; Miss F. E. Long, mistress

National, Broadclyst (boys, girls & infants),erected in r8to, School, Westwood (mixed), for So children; average at•f

for 250 children: average attendance, 200: Samuel tendance, 55 ; Miss E. Cowles, mistress .

Mardon, boys' master ; Miss Susan Baker, girls' mistress; ThesEI schools are partly supported by trust funds

Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Mardon. infants' mistress Rail way Station, Thomas Norris, station master

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PRIVATE RESIDENTs. relieving officer for No. 3 district, St.[ Miller & Lilley, coal mers.Railway statn

Acland Rt. Hon.Sir Thomas Dyke hart. Thomas union Milton Thos.machimst; &at Westwood

P.c., n.c.L., F.R.G.s., F.L.s. 1 F.c.s., Chamberlain James. builder lVIodridge Edwin, veterinary surgeon
n.L.,J.P.Killerton; &Athenreum club, Channon John, farmer, Wishford Moore Frank, farmer, Clyst avenue

London s w Chapman Henry Vant, linen draper Mortimore Henry, farmer, Lake

.Acland Rev. Peter Leopold Dyke M.A. Chidsey Henry William, groc:lr Mortimore William, beer reLailer

Vicarage Cleave Josepb, farmer, Comeroy Norris Charles, farmer, Mosshaynes

Acland CharlesThomas Dyke M.A.,D.L., Cudmore WiUiam Taylor, clerk to the Palmer Edwin, farmer, West Clyst

J.P. Killerton Right. Hon.Sir Thomas Acland bart. Fatten Robert, farmer, Cranifqrd

.Aysbford Mrs. Lake P.C. Holly lodge Reed&Smith,paper manfrs.Bridge mills

Hayne William Thirlwall LL.M., F.c.s., Davis William, farmer, Youngbayes Salter Elizabet4 (Mrs.), farmer

J.P. Brockhill Down Richard, farmer, Chillacombe Salter John, dairyman

Bricknell Richard Fisher George, Alexandra commercial Salter Philip, farmer, Newlands

Chamberlain J ames, Kennicotts hotel & posting house, builder & con- Sanders Charles Thos. B. baker &grocer

Dickinson Rev. George Lowe M.A. tractor, Railway station Sanders John, farmer~ Gateshayes

[curate], Prior court · Froom Robert, farmer, Burrow Sanders William l:loutcher -.Batten,

Eckett Rev. Charles James [curate for Garland John, gardener to the Right butch.er & farmer, Townends

St.Paul'schapel,Westwood],Vinecott Hon. Sir Thomas Dyhe Acland bart Sandoe John Worden M.D, surgeon

Harris Mrs. Rose cottage Gibbins John, cattle dealer (firm, Somer & Sandoe), Ford cott

Pennell Lieut.-Col. Richd.Bluehayes ho Gibbins Robert, Crown & Sceptre P,H Scadding Alfred, shopkeeper

Richards Francis Gill Frederick, farmer, Coachfields Scanes Henry, farme1·

RichardsWalterFrederick,Beaumont ho Gillard William, halter Setten Charles, shoe maker

Sanders Thomas, Heathfield house Gitsham Maria (Mrs.), chapel keeper Setten Samuel, market gardener

Sandoe John Worden M.D. Ford cottage Griffin Benjamin, fa-rmer Shapland John, farmer, Shermoor farm

Scanlan James, Kerswell Ham Josepb, farmer, Budlake Shore George, farmer, Frogmore

Somer James, Willow cottage Harris Sylvester, tailor Somer & Sandoe, surgeons

Thorpe Sergeant-Major Henniker HawkinsWm.farmer,Till ho.Rockbeare Somer James (firm, Somer & Sandoe),

Trickey Thomas Henley Thoma~,rate collector & deputy surgeon, & medical officer & public

Tuckett John, Cliston villa registrar, Broadclyst sub-district, St. vaccinator, Broadclyst district, St.

Veysey Frederick, Mill hayes Thomas union Thomas union, Willow cottage

Walrond Lady, Sprydoncote Hill Richard, shoe maker Southard EdwinGeo. plumber & painter

Walrond Arthur :Melville Hood J.P. Hill Thomas, farmer, Barton Southard Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker

Sprydoncote Institute & Reading Room (E. G. Stenner John, foreman of works

Ware Emanuel, Vine cottage Southard, sec) Stevens William, steward to t~e Right

Were Thomas Bonville, Hay Ireland Caroline (Miss), ladies' school Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland bart

W1sh Thomas. Loxbrook Jennings Ann (Mrs ) & Son, saddlers Symons William, farmer, Hayfield

Wootton Daniel, Sidney villa Langdon Edward George, boot maker 'fhorne Richard, farmer, Jarveshayes

COMMERCIAL. Lawrence William Bastone, carpenter Tout Joseph, wheelwright & blacksmth

.Ashford John, wheelwright Lee-, farmer, Elbury- ToutLewisEdwd.farmer,Martin'sfields

.Ayshford Alice (Mrs.), dress maker Loosmore William John, baker Trump Henry, farmer, Great Barton

Tiambury Tbos.farmer,Kerswell Barton Lucraft John, cooper Trump John, farmer, Trow farm

Bray Thomas, farmer, Saundercroft Maddock James, grocer, & post office Waters Matthew, farmer, Southbrook

Brock George, farmer, Newhall ·Martin Christopber, butcher & farmer Webber William, sawyer

Erockington William, farmer,Churchill :Maunder William, shoe maker Whiteway Henry, farmer, Churchill

Burnett Sydney, registrar of births & Merry Richard, farmer, Goulds Wish 'l'homas, farmer, Loxbrook

deaths for Broadclyst sub-district & Merry William Fredk.farmer,Ash Clyst Worth Harry Waiter, Red Lion P.R

EROADHEMBURY is a parish I mile from the high M(rridunum of Antonine. The Grange is the seat of Mrs.

road from Honiton to Cullompton, si miles north-west from Locke, who is lady of the manor and chief landowner. The
Honiton and 6 south-east from Cullompton station on the soil is loam and marl : subsoil, gravel and sand. The chief

main. line of the Great Western railway, in the Tiverton crops are wheat, barley and oats. The acreage is 4,703;

division of the county, Hayridge hundred, Cullompton petty rateable value, £5,497; the population in 1891 was 6o1.

sessional division, Honiton union and county court district, Dulford ha mlet is 2! miles n o rth-west; Duliord House
rural deanery of Ottery and archdeaconry and diocese of by KERSWELL hamle
is o~cupied John Boyle esq. t is 1 t

Exeter. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient building miles west; here is a Congregational chapel. CoLITON, 1
of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, mile south-west; LuroN, 2 miles south-west, are hamlet:.B.
nave, aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower, Sexton, John Jenkins. •

ytmwrieetiegahtmihreslopyterrienrviannadltala-uwcctelehiensas£d,rfocg2rowo3em6ns,tca:toiihntnmhecinmelyuguedcaathianrcutgl1irooc5c4hn3k98aa.£anfcf2d'for7he5r9dse,bsleoailf3vvlsisegn0:rlgaetshgbiiseetet,riaen£wgva2iisrt1ce.h2as,reraTevngsheeeine-,t PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. :Martha Drew, sub-postmistress. Let-
ters arrive from Honiton at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 4·I5
p.m. The nearest money order office is at Kentisbeare &
telegraph office at Sidmouth Junction railway station.

dence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and Postal orders are issued here, but not paid .

held since 1892 by the Rev. Chqrles Lister James li.A. of ScHoOLS:-
Trinity College, Dublin. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The National (boys), erected in 1867, for 6o boys; average

charities amount to about £57 yearly value. Between this attendance, 30; John Sanders Searle, master

place and Buckerell is Hembury Fort, the finest earthwork Elementary (girls & infants) i it will bold 6o children j

remaining in East Devon and probably identical with the RY'erage attendance, so; Miss Annie Hodnett, mistress

Broadhembury. Denner William, farmer *Tucker Jas.dairyman,St.Andrew'~J wd

{Names ma.rked thus • receive their letters DerhamJohn,farmer,St.Andrew's wood Venn William, boot & shoe maker

through Cullompton.] Gard Jane (Miss), cooper Weeks Philip, farmer, Glanville

James Rev. Charles Lister M.A. [vicar] Granger Hermann,farmer&butter factr *Weeks William, farmer, Priory

Locke Arthur Charles Edward J.:f, The Hardwell Wm. smith, Causeway end Winter Henry Hamilton, bailiff j;o Mrs.

Grange Horne John, insurance agent Locke, The Grange

Locke Mrs. The Grange Marks Edward, baker Woodbery Henry, boot & shoe maker
Marks John 'fhomas, farmer, Stafford
COMMERCIAL. Martin John, farmer,.t.uton
Dulford.
Nickels Wm. Red Lion P.H. & farmer [Letters receive t through Cullompton.]
Blackmore Henry, farmer, Luton

lUackmoreJas. farmer &butcher,Luton Persey John, farmer, Upcott oyle John, Dulford house
vens Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Blackmore Thomas, farmer, Northill IRichards James, farmer, Crammer
Blackmore William, farmer & butcher Shore Robert, farmer, Clarke's thorne Gush l<'rederick, farmer & miller .

Boundy William, farmer, Stafford farm Stevens John, dairyman, Bowerwood (water), Hayne

Burton John, shopkeeper Taylor Morkham, farmer & assissant Persey Thomas, farmer

Crook William Henry, farmer, Hanger overseer, Lane end Pope John, farmer & market gardener,

Daniels Daniel, farmer, Luton Tett William, baker. Loyalty ball

Denner Frank, road contractor Trickey William, farmer, Pitney Reed John, smith

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BBOADWOOD·KELl..Y. 91

Starke Richd. carpenter &wheelwright Churchill Thos.carpenter&wbe~wrigb.t Wrig:1t ~obert, carrier •

White Charles, yeoman Law;rence ,Henry Ha)"man, farmer .

Kerswell. Minifie Joseph; shopkpr. & blacksmith Coliton.

[Letters received through Collumpton.] Percey William Richard, farmer · Lawrence Henry, jun. farmer
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Ayres Eli, carpenter .. Snell Edmund, farmer

l3ROADHEMPSTON is a parish, 4i mnes north from 1678, baptisms and marriages 1681. The living is a vicar-

•rotnes, 4 south-east from Ashburton and 2! north-east from age, average tithe rent-charge £202, net yearly income
Staverton station on the Ashburton branch of the· Great £240, including 37 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift

Western railway and s! south-west from Newton Abbot, in of the Crown, and held since 1873 by the Rev. Frederick

the Mid 'tlivision of the c01mty, Haytor hundret;l, Teign- Townsbend Chamberlain M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin.
bridge petty sessional division, Newton Abbot union, Newton There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels ; the latter
Abbot and Torquay county court district, rural deanery of was built in 1844 by Edward Palk esq. then lord of the
Totnes and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The manor. An ancient almshouse of Perpendicular date stands

church (dedication unknown) standing on high ground in near the churchyard, The charities consist of £3 yearly,.

the south-west quarter of the village, is ~J.n ancient edifice left by William Jesse, vicar in 1679 ; and 2os. yearly from
of stone, rebuilt in 1402, and comisting of chancel, nave, Petre's charity, left by John Petre, of Exeter, who died 3

north and south aisles, divided from the nave by arcades of Feb. 1576 ; these are distributed in kind to the poor at
five arches, south porch and an embattled west.ern tower, Christmas. The trustees of the late Mrs. Palk, who are
containing 6 bells, 5 of which were cast in the .churchyard lords of the manor, Jeffrey Edwards Skinner esq. William
in 17811 by John Christopher and William Pennington, of Manu esq. William James Waye esq, William Blackler esq.
Lezant; the 6th was added in 1887 as a memorial of the Mrs. P. H. Skinner and the trustees of·the late Philip Michel-
Queen's Jubilee: the font, richly carved, is of earlier date more esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay;

than the church and has an octagonal basin, adorned with subsoil, slate and dunstone. The crops are wheat, pasture
quatrefoils and shields bearing alternately two keys and two and roots. The parish contains 2,169 acres; rateable value,

swords in saltire: the rood screen, of carved oak, much £4,669; the population in 1891 was 525.
mutilated, is rudely painted in various colours; it extends BEASTON, half a mile west, and FoRDER {,}REEN, I mile
across both aisles, and has attached parcloses, formerly in- north-west, are hamlets.
closing chantry chapels ; the upper part of the screen retains AM BROOK, a detached part of Siaverton, was added to this

some good Perpendicular tracery; the lower stage was once parish March 25th, 1884.
painted with figures of saints, now no longer visible: some Sexton, John Atwill.
of the windows retain fragments of ancient glass, including SuB-POST 0FFICE.-Mrs.Anna Maria Ellis,receiver. Letters
the arms of the Barnhouso and Rowe families: there are received from Totnes at 8.45 a. m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m.
three sedilia in the chancel and piscinre in the chancel and Ipplepen is the nearest money order office & Totnes the
aisles ; traces of an aspersorium or stoup remain in the nearest telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here,
porch :.in the chancel is a tablet with arms, to Robert but not paid. Letters for Forder Green through Ash-
Warreyng and Ellinor, his wife, 1656 ; and to Robert burton

vVarreyng, Mary, his wife, and Avis their daughter, with A School Board of 5 members was formed March 12, 1875;

arms and a rhyming epitaph; on the floor are grave stones Woodland is a contributory parish with 2 members;
inscribed to William Jesse, 30 years vicar here, ob. 27 William Atwill, clerk to the board & attendance officer

March, 1679, and to Elizabeth and William Jesse, 1645-6: Board School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 120 children;
in 1879 the chancel was thoroughly restored and re-roofed average attendance, 37 boys & 36 girls & infants; Chas.
with pitch pine: the communion plate, partly the gift of the Mole, master
Rev. Samuel Whaley, vicar in 1712, consists of a chalice, CARRIERS TO : -
two patens and an alms-dish: there are 200 sittings. The NEWTON ABBOT-John Bulley, wed, & sat. returning same

churchyard is large and neatly kept and contains several day; John Palk, every wed. returning same day
fine yew·trees. The register of burials dates from the year ToTNEs-John Bulley, sat. returning same day

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Broadhempston. Atwill William, jun. carpenter Palk John, baker & grocer & miller
(water), Bow mill
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Blackler William, landowner & farmer,
Wottons Palk Owen, butcher & farmer
Bartley Decimns Henry, Lee cottage Palk Richard, cider merchant
Bradridge Henry, Ellbridge Caunter Alfred, boot maker Sanders Frederick, shoe maker
Chamberlain Rev.FrederickTownshend Shinner Thos. Ernest, farmer, Fishacre
Caunter John, farmer, Pitt farm
c:~k~·r if~~:!J Caunter Richard, carpenter, Hickaton Skinner Je:ffrey Edwards, frmr.Knowle
Soper John, blacksmith
Frost John, Roundhead Cha:ffe John, cider merchant & cow- Towel! John, farmer, Lake farm
Wakeham Thomas, farmer, Halswell
Hughes Crayton Wolfe, Woodbine villa keeper, Manor house Waye Wm.Jas. farmer,Burrough farm
Lloyd Henry, Flowercot Coulman George, mason
Morison Daniel, Elm park Ellicott Alfred, Church House inn Beaston.
Palk The Misses, Omega cottage
Palk Richard, Well house Field William, farmer, Ashwick • Madge William Humphreys
Pclrr Frederick, Hope cottage Ford John, shopkeeper Hannaford Frances (Mrs.), farmer
.Skinner Henry Kmgswell, The Retreat ?vlichelmore Thomas, farmer
Wills Miss, Sneydhurst HannafordGeorge, farmer,Lit..Ambrook
Harris Henry John, New inn •
COMMERCIAL. Hewings Geo. Hy. farmer, Lee estate
Adams David, farmer, Bickaton Hollot William, farmer, Lit. \Voodland Forder Green.
Atwill John, mason
Atwill William, builder & contractor, & Holwell Geo. blacksmith & wheelwright Page Major Nathaniel, Forder house
Wilcox Mrs. Higher Forder green
assistant overseer & clerk to the JacksonRosa(Mrs. ),farmr.Lit.Ambrook Perkins Elizabeth (Miss), farmer
school board Wyatt Jn. farmer, Young House farm
Johns Josepl:-, farmer, Purcombe
Lowe George Field, carpenter
Mann Wm.cider mer. & farmer, Downs
May Henry, farmer, Lower well
Norrish Robert, boot maker

l3ROADWOOD-KELLY is a parish and village, 7 the Rev. Henry James Crockford B.A. of Trinity College,

miles south-west from Eggesford station and 6 north-west Cambridge. The Plymouth Brethren have a small chapel

from North Tawton station on the main line of the London at Ingleigh Green. William Cornish Cleave esq. of the

and South Western railway, s! east-by-north from Hather- Sanctuary, Shobrooke, who is lord of the manor, is th&

leigh and 9 north from Okehampton, in the Western principal landowner, and Messrs. Davey, Arnold, Hill and

division of the county, Black 'forrington hundred, Rather• Samuel Sampson are also landowners. The soil is dun

leigh petty sessional division, Okehampton union and county land ; the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats

court district, rural deanery of Okehampton, archdeaconry and barley. The acreage is 11,993; rateable value, £2,184;

of 'fotnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of All Hallows the population in 1891 was 261.

is a building of stone in the Perpendicular and Early English SPLA.TS is a hamlet, 1 mile south-west from the village,
styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and and contains three farmhouses, a few cottages and a chapel

an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 of the Bible Christians, erected in 1870. ·
bells: the stained east window was· presented by the Rev.
Nathaniel J .. B. Hole B.C.L. late vicar, in 1868: on the south Sexton, William Harris.
porch is an ancient sun-dial : the church was thoroughly Letters arrive 7.30 a. m, through Winkleigh R.S.O. North

repaired, re-pewed and new-roofed about 1868, at a cost of Devon, which is the nearest money order & telegraph

£I, 100, and has 2oo sittings. The register dates from the office

year 1564. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 5· 15 p.m. week days o~;~.ly in

charge £x63, gross yearly value £240, net £x68, and 73 winter & 6.15 p.m. in summer

acres ol glebe, with residence, in the gift of Henry Crockford Voluntary Church School (mixed), founded in 1876, for 55

esq. of Lynbridge House. 'favistock, and held since x883 by children; average attendance, 40; Joseph Pearse, master

92 BRO.ADWOOD•JrELL'{. DEVONSHIItE. 1 (KELLY1S

Crockford Rev. Hy. Jas. B.A. Rectory Harr:s WilLam, carpenter Sampson Samuel, shoe maker

lbymount Richard, Ingleigh green Hill William, yeoman, Oakley house Snell John Cobley,auctioneer & farmer,

COMMERCIAL. Lang Andrew Jn. farmer, Southdown Upcott

Brook John, farmer, W.alston LetherenAnn(Mrs. ),farmr.Taylors dwn StanburyPeter,farmer,East Middlecotts

Brook William, farmer, Woodcroft Ley John, farmer, Brixton Summerhays Jn. farmer, Higher Ingley

Buckingham James, shoe maker Ley Robert, farmer, Corstone Summerhays Wm.yeoman, Hawksland

Eastabrook Thomas, farmer & thatcher Marles James, blacksmith Tallyn Anthony, farmer, Paddyland

Erland John, wheelwright Parr Samuel, dairy farmer Tancock Susan & Son,frmrs.Lakesland

J:<'airchild Henry, carpenter Powlesland Samuel, farmer, Clarkstwn Tancock William, farmer

Flood James, farmer, Halsydown Raymount James, farmer, North park Vanstone Loammi, Union inn,& farmer

Glanville Ernest Marks,farmer,Taylor's Sampson John Lethbridge, carpenter Wheaton Thomas, shopkeeper

down Sampson Mary Ann E. (Miss), farmer, Wheaton Thomas, jun. shopkeeper

Harris Henry, farmer, Barntown · Park

BROADWOOD WIDGER is a parish and village, 12 I at Cross Gree:J.. Jc~hn Hall esq. who is lord of the manor~

miles nJrth-west from Tavistock, 7 north-east from Laun- Horatio Carlyon esq. of St. Mary Church, 1\lrs. Gamlen, of

ceston, 3 east from Tower Hill station on the Launceston Bramford Speke, Exeter, Lady Ashburton, Mrs. Ford,

branch of the London and South Western railway and 3 FrankBradshawesq J.P. ofLiftonPark,andHenryFairfax

north from Lifton station on the Launceston branch of the Harvey, are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy;

Great Western railway, in the Western division of the sub3oil, clay and slate. The chief crops are wheat, oats,

county, Lifton hundred and petty sessional division 1 Laun- barley and pasture. The area is 8,780 acres; rateable
ceston union and county cou1•t district, rural deanery of value, £s,6ox ; the population in 1891 was 8o3. By a Local
Trigg Major, archdeaconry of Boimin and diocese of Truro. Government order which came into operation March 25.
The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient s~ructure of various r884, a detached part of Lifton, known as Westweek, in

styles and d<ttes, consisting of chancel with south chapel Tavistock union, was amalgamated with this parish.

saparated from the chancel by an arcade of two arches, and Sexton, Amos Balsdon.

forming an organ chamber, nave of four bays, south aisle, PosT OFFICE.-Thomas Squire, sub-postmaster. Letters

north transept, south porch and an embattled western through Lifton R.S.O. North Devon, arrive 7is.4othae.mn.e;adreiss-t
tower with pinnacles containing 5 bells, all cast in 1775: in m. week days only. Lifton
mpaotncheeydo4rd.4e5r p.
the south chapel is an altar to.nb, panelled with niches, telegraph office. Postal orders are issued
&

containing small figures, and on the upper slab lies the here, but not paid
mutilated recumbent effigy of a knight in plate armour of

unusual c hraaenrpadrcetlseeegrnsatsnadrWeciomlvl!iesar:me~din~wghi;iltshtthoa3nn,fioogpfuerenU, fplacocowctoitn,rgdiinrnogtbhetios: SCHOOLS:-
the hands
Westcote, A School Board of 5 members was formed February n,

1879, for the united district of Broadwood Widger, which

parish: one of the windows in the south aisle is stained: the includes Westweek & Virginstowe; attendance officer &

church retains a good oak chancel screen and some richly clerk, W. H. Cory, Launceston
Board, Ivy House, built in 188o, for go children; average
carved benches, dating from 152j: the fabric was restored
in 1871, and has sittings for 140 persons. The register dates attendance, 6x: Hicks Hill, master
Board, Tborncross, built in x88o, residence for master
fvraolmuet£he29y0e, agrro1s6s5y4e. arlTyhvealluivein£g30is0, a vicarage, net yearly added in x8;~3, for So children; average attendance, 48 ~
including 6o acres of
Philip Williams, master
glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of National (infants), built in x883, for 70 children; average

Bristol, and held since 1 373 by the Rev. Richd. Thos. Blagden attendance, 14; Miss l\Iary Walters, mistress
M. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan

chapel at Downacarry, a Bible Christian chapel at Grinni- Railway Station, Tower Hill, London & South Western rail-

combe Moor, another at Rexton Cross, and a Baptist chapel way, Thomas Boxall, station master
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Blagden Rev. Richd. Thos.u.A.Vicarage Fry Samuel, blacksmith, Ash mill
Palmer Wm. frmr. Lower Grinnicombe

COMMERCIAL. Hall John, farmer, Kellaeott Perkm Elizh. (Mrs.),farmer,Tower hill

Andrews Thomas, farmer, Lowermoor Hicks John, farmer, Beckett Perkin Samuel, farmer, Venn

Andrews Thomas, miller (water), Moor Hicks William, carpenter Perkin William,farmer,Frankaborough.

Andrews Thomas (Mrs.), farmer, West Hill John, mason, Grinnicombe Pethic Charles, farmer, Kellacott

Kitchem Hilson James, farmer, Kellacott Rich James, farmer, Kellacott

Axworthy John, farmer, Beckett Jackman John, farmer, Shallaford Rich Susan (Mrs.), farmer, Rexton

Bailey William, farmer, Nedwood James Henry, farmer, Shop Rich William, farmer, Town

Bassett Thomas, farmer, Combs head Jope Richard, farmer, Hole l<ickard Edward, farmer, Town

Bickle George, farmer, Camp Keunard Richard, farmer, E'l.stlake Rockey Thos.farmer,LittleWestmanton

Hox William, farmer, Rextou LittlejohnChas.tailr.Grinnicombemoor Rudland Edward, coal &c. stores,

Bray John, farmer, Combe park Littlejohn William, tailor, Bolforq lane Tower Hill railway station

Bridgeman Richd. farmer, Downacarry 1\'lacbethAlex.frmr.&landowner,Fernhill Shopland Jas. blacksmitb,Grinnit;ombe

Brimacombe Geo. farmer, Downtown Martin James, farmer, West Bainbury Shopland John, farmer, Treydown

Butler James, farmer, Rexton Martm Richard, farmer, Cross Shoplaud Samuel, farmer, Shop

Burden William, farmer, Huddle Martin Richard, farmer, Willtown Sillifanli Isaac, farmer, Beckett

Carlyon Horatio, farmer & landownerr Martin Rich':l.rd, JUn. farmer, Rexton Smale Edwin, farmer, Thorne

Witherdon; res. St. Mary church, Martin William, farmer, Combe Smale George, farmer, Westweek

Torquay Matthews John A. shopkeeper k mason, Squire E liLh. (Miss), Hare & Hounds P. B

Clifton John, carpenter, Thornmoor Rexton cross Squire Thomas, builder, shopkeeper &;
Cole Amos, farmer, North Thorn
Davey Hy. farmer, Higher Combshead Murley Thomas, farmer, Kitchem farmer, Post office
Davey William, farmer, Emsworthy
Down Bros. farmers, Frankaborough Norsworthy John, farmer, Middle Symons John, farmer, Westwee!t

Grinnicombe Veale RcJbert, farmer, Norton

Northey William, farmer, Westweek Ward John, farmer, Westweek

Down James, blacksmith, Town Oag James, farmer, Thorndon Worden \\'m. farmer, Upcott Barton
Fry John, miller (water), Combe
Palmer 'fhomas, farmer, Lugworthy Wood Nicholas, farmer, Moor

BRUSHFORD is a small parish in the Taw valley, 3 gross yearly value /.,51. Nearly the whole of the land

miles south from Eggesford station on the North Devon belongs to the Luxton family, by whom it has been held
branch of the London and South Western railway, 5 south since the reign of Queen Eliz':l.beth, previous to which the
from Chulmleigh and 10 east from Hatherleigh, in the manor and tit.hes belonged to Hartland Abbey. West Brush-
Northern division of the county, North Tawton hundred, ford farm is the property of Barrvn Mackensey esq. and

South Molton petty sessional division, Crediton union and Lower Reeve of William Pope esq. The soil is dun land;

county court district, rural deanery or Chulmleigh, arch- subsoil, clayey. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley.

deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The chur<!h The acreage is 873A. IR. 22P. ; rateable value, £8o8; the.
of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone of mixed stylas, population in 1891 was 69.

consisting of chancel and nave, south porch and a wooden Sexton, William Gould.
tower with short spire containing j bells : the church
retains an ancient wood screen and there are several
tablets to the Luxton family, by whom the church was WALL LETTER Boxjcle::tred at 6.5o p.m

Je3tored in 1878, at a. cost of £431: there are about xoo Letters through Wembworthy R.S.O. arrive at 7 a.m. The

sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1695; nearest money order office is at Wembworthy & tele6l'aph

marr1ages, 1697 ; burials, 1694. The living is a vicarage, office at Winkleigh

Luxton Robert George, Barton Chudle~· William, smith, Moor end Harris Thomas, miller (water)

Brooks Edwin, farmer, West Brushford Gould William, farmer, Partridge walls 'l'ancock Alfred, farmer, Middle reeve

Brooks Willia.m, farmer, R~e.-es Lower

DIREOTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. IUCKFAS1'LEIGH. 93

:BUCKERELL is a parish and village on the river Otter, Howe. The mansion of Hembury Fort is the seat of Mrs.

:2f miles north-east from Sidmouth Junction station on the Colborne; the view from the fort itself, a fortified camp

main line of the South Western railway, 3 west from occupying a site of considerable elevation and covering an
Honiton and 15 east from Exeter, in the Eastern division of area of about one and one-fifth acre, is extensive and
the county, Hemyock hundred, Honiton petty sessional beautiful, and includes the vale of the Otter and the sea at

division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Budleigh Salterton. Deer Park, the residence of Lady

Ottery and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The Frances Lindsay, is situated in the midst of beautiful
church of SS. Mary and Giles is a fine crueiform building scenery, about midway between Honiton and Feniton: ac-
of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, cording to tradition it was in ancient times a royal hunting
nave, transepts and an embattled western tower containing box, this part of the county being famous for the chase of

a clock and 5 bells: a magnificent old oak screen divides the the deer and the otter, from whence the river close by

chancel from the nave, partly restored in 1892 and there is derives its name; the park is about 30 acres in extent: at-
a xsth century piscina and a monument to Samuel Graves, tached to the mansion, which is about xso years old, is a
Admiral of the White, of Hembury Fort, 1717: five of the private Catholic chapel. Buckerell Lodge, the property of
windows are stained: in the vestry is a. tablet which gives the Rev. G. Barons Northcote M. A. is now the residence of
the date of the church as 1430, but from a charter, by Wilham Steer Riding M.D. The land is all freehold. Lady
which Queen Elizabeth bestowed the advowson and tithes Frances Lindsay, Mrs. Colborne, the Rev. George B"rons
upon the Dean and Chapter of Exeter in perpetuity, it ap- Northcote M.A. rector of Feniton, L. D. Davy esq. anrl
pears that the benefice existed in 128o, when it was in Alexander Reed esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is
possession of the neighbouring Abbey of Dunkeswell : the clay ; subsoil, exceedingly rich and chiefly marl. The chief
church will seat 198 persons. The register of baptisms and crops are oats, peas, beans, roots and pasturage. The
marriages dates from the year 1654; burials, 1653. The acrea.~e is 1,559 ; rateable value, £2,486; the population in

living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £95, net r89r was 243.

yearly value £r6r, with residence and 3 acres of glebe, in WESTON is a hamlet one mile east.
the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and held since Sexton, James Coombs.
r884 by the Rev. Alfred William Ford Th.Assoc. of King's PosT 0FFICE.-Frank Hounsell, postmaster. Letters

College, London. 'fhe great tithes, commuted at £145, are received from Honiton at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5·45
held under the Dean and Chapter of Exeter by the Rev. G. p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
Barons Northcote :&r.A. rector of Feniton. The poor have Honiton. Letters for Combe Hayes through Ottery St.

.£8 3s. 6d. a year distributed in blankets and clothing, Mary
derived from £272 xos. 9d. in the funds, which was pur- National School (mixed), built in r83o, for 42 children;
chased with £300 left in r8q by the late Rev. Thomas average attendance, 30; vacant, mistress

Colborne Mrs. Hembury fort Baker Thos.Jas.dairyman, Avingshayes PearcyThomas, farmer, Weston Bartou
FordRev.Alfd.Wm.Th.A.K.C.L.Vicarage Bright John, dairyman, Deer park Pearcy Thomas, jun. farmer, Elmfield
Gouldsworthy Richard Chown James, carpenter, wheelwright Rownstable Ann (Mrs.), dairy, Elmfield
Lindsay Lady l<'rances, Deer park Shiles John, farmer, Colhayes
LindsayWm.Alex.l\I.A.,D.L.,J.P. Deer pk & blacksmith Tucker Ann(Mrs. ),cider dealer, Weston
Riding William Steer M.D. Buckerelllo HorsfordCharlotte(Mrs.),frmr.Glebe fm Ware Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Hackhams
Horsford William Geo. farmer, Sowton
'Vhite James, Elmfield Wilmington George, farmer, Orchard
COllMERCIAL. Lane Henry, dairyman, Sowton & Evans
Martin Francis, farmer, Combe Hayes
Adams Job, farmer, Deer Park farm
[Letters through Ottery St. MaryJ

:BUCKFASTLEIGH is a parish and small manufactur- comprises a spacious ball, 6rft. by 3Ift. with a stage fur

ing town, on the river Dart and the high road from Ply- various purposes measuring 23ft. by 14 ft. ; the hall will

mouth to Exeter and London, having a station on the seat 450 persons: there is also a library, billiard room, with
branch of the Great Western railway from Totnes to Ashbur- a large table, the gift of H. B. Mildmay esq. class and read-
ton, 22 miles south-west from Exeter, 6 north-west from ing rooms, with residence for the caretaker: the whole is

Totnes, 21 by road and 3o! by rail from Plymouth and 195 managed by a committee of 12 members. The woollen
by road from London and 230 by rail, in the Southern manufacture is carried on here and large contracts are

division of the county, Stanborough hundred, Stanborough executed for the supply of navy serge and blankets: Messrs.

and Coleridge petty sessional division, Totnes union and l Hamlyn Bros. (who have 2 mills) employ about 6oo persons

county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of 1and Messrs. John Berry and Sons about 400 ; in this

Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The scenery around here, 1industry Messrs. Churchward have a wool-combing factory
'with Dartmoor in the distance, is very beautiful, and the and there is a paper mill and an iron foundry in the town

trout and salmon fishing in the Dart is very good. The and two tanneries ;· there is also an extensive lime quarry

church of the Holy Trinity, placed on a lofty eminence, is belonging to William Richard Coulton esq. and in the

a,n ancient edifice of stone in the Early English and Perpen- neighbourhood are tin and copper mines, but at the present

dicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and tran- time they are not worked. Black Rock and Bakers pits,

septs, south porch and an embattled western tower with near the parish church, have several openings leading into

.spire containing 6 bells : in the south transept is a stained a series of caverns which extend for considerable distances:

window erected by Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming, of Bigadon, fairs are held here on the third Thursday in June and the
in memory of their daughter, and there are two other second Thursday in September. Charities producing about

memorial windows at the east end of the south aisle to a £so yearly are distributed in blankets, money and bread.

former vicar and his wife, and to a Mr. James Pawning and The Abbey of Buckfastre or Buckfast is said by common
his son : the east window, with four smaller windows, were local tradition, and probably with truth, to be more ancient

the gift of Richard John King esq. who formerly resided in by some centuries than the neighbouring town of Buckfast-

the parish : the west window was erected by Miss Lowndes leigh ; which in fact was originally the "ley " or pasturage

in memory of her parents: the carved oak pulpit is the belonging to the abbey: the Saxon name was" Buckfresten,"

work of the late Mr. John Pope: the covers of the Bible are i.e. "deerfastness," as appears from Bishop Aelfwold's

also exquisitely carved: there are 400 sittings: east of the charter, granted in ror6: the Saxon abbey of S. Mary of
church, but detached from it, is a portion of a building, Buckfresten was founded in the reign of King Edgar, about
apparently of Early English date, and overgrown with ivy. A.D. 980: in the reign of Henry II. it was refounded by
The parish register dates from the year r6o2. The Jiving is Ethelward de Pomeri as a Cistercian monastery, and
a vicarage, average yearly value from tithe rent-charge colonized from Savigny inNormandy, and eventually became
£rso, with 29! acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the richest house of that order in Devonshire; a1 the period
\V. E. Tucker esq. and held since 1891 by the Rev. William of its surrender by the last abbot, Gabriel Donne, there

Henry Browse Tucker M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. The were ro monks, and revenues estimated at £466: after the
great tithes, arising out of the lands comprised within the Dissolution, the roofs of the abbey buildings were stripped
manor of Brook and the town manor, belong mostly to the of their lead, and for nearly two centuries the ruins appear
Earl of Macclesfie:d, and those arising out of the lands to have furnished building materials for the locality: the
within the manor of Kilbury to Jeffery Edwards esq. and site remained uninhabited till 1796, when the erection of a
:the rector for the time being of the sinecure rectory of house iu the Gothic style on the west side of the destroyed
Ermington in this county, now the BeY. William Hale cloisters was begun, and finished in r8o6: the abbey,
Andrews ; the last mentioned great tithes formed part of the situated :r mile north of the village on the right bank of the

possessions of the monastery of Montague, in the county of river Dart, included a fine church, 210 feet long internally,
Somerset, on its dissolution. There is a Wesleyan chapel in and consisting of choir with aisles and eastern chapels,
Chapel street and a smaller one at Buckfast; also a Congre- transepts Ss feet north to ~outh, also with eastern chapels,
~ational chapel, built at a cost of about £r,3so in x872. nave with aisles, and probably a central tower; on the

Buckfastleigh Town Hall and Institute, in Bossel road, south side were cloisters, 94 feet square, with sacristy

erected on freehold ground at a cost of £ r, xso, is a building adjoining the south transept, next, the chapter house, 40

of local limestone, with Bath stone and brick facings, and feet by 20 feet, slype and fratry, or common room ; on the

94 BUCKFASTLEIGa. .DEVONSHIRE. •

[ KELLY's

south side the frater {refectory) and kitchen; and <m the PUBLIC 0FFICHRS ~-

·west side the ])onws Conversonx11#1 ~ at the south-west angle Assessor of Income Tax, James Roger Petherbridge,Fore st

of the cloister was a Perpendicular tower with stair tuTret, Certifying- Factwry Surgeon for Buckfastleigh & Brent,

still in good preservation, and the tithe barn, a large Henry Ubsdell

structure 100 feet in length, is also extant, but of the church, Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Totnes union., Ruck-

and other buildings, only scattered fragments, some arch- fastleigh, Henry Sandford Johnson L.K.Q.C.P.rrel.; Stav-

ways and other entrances and portions of the foundations erton Rattery district, Henry Ubsdell

are left. In :r882 the abbey was purchased from Dr. Gale, Registrar of Births & Deaths, Buckfastleigh sub-district,

of Plymouth, by a colony of Benedictine monks from Pierre- John Hovey

qui-vire in Burgundy, by whom the monastery has been Registrar of Marriages, James Roger Petherbridge, Forest

partially rebuilt on its ancient foundations ; and, pending Water Bailiff, Henry Smith, Rock cottage

the restoration of the Abbey church, which it is intended to PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services:-

Tebuild in the Early English style, a small church dedicated Holy Trinity Church, Rev. William H. B. Tucker M.A.

to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, has been erected to the vicar; sundays, 8.30 & 11 a. m. & 3 p.m. in winter &

south of the abbot's toweT, which was earefully restored in 8 & II a. m. & 6 p. m. in summeT; wed. & fri. 10.30 a.m. ;

1883, under the direction of F. A. Waiters esq. F.S.A. archi- also sun. & wed. in the Buckfast school room

tect, who has also superintended the recent excamt.ion of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic, priests of the A"bbey

the site: the Right Rev. Stepben Denis, abbot; the Rlw. officiate; sun. & holidays of obligation, mass, 6, 7, 8.45

Benedict Gariodor, prior. The house called '' Buckfast & 10 a.m. ; vespers & benediction, 3 p.m

Abbey," built out of the materials of the monastery in Congregational, Rev. Frederick Pascoe; II a.m. & 6 p.m.

1805-6, has beneath it a Saxon crypt; the house is now & thurs. 7-30 p.m

occupied by the community mentioned above. The chief Wesleyan, Rev. John Stephensan; 11 a.m. &6 p.m.; mon.

landowners are the Earl of Macclesfield, wha is lord of the & thurs. 7·-:!0 p.m

manor, Jeffery Edwards esq. John Flaming esq. J.P. and Wesleyan, Buckfast; 3 & 6 p.m.; mon. 7.30 p.m

Messrs. Hamlyn Brothers. The soil is loamy; subsoil, slate SCHOOLS:-
and limestone ; the chief crops being wheat, barley, pasture A School Board of 5 members·was formed March 29, 1871 ;
and apples. A large quantity of cider is made, mo~t of E. Windeatt, Totnes, clerk to tse board; John Pether-

which is of very superior quality. .Area 5,720 acres; -rate- bridge, Higher town, attendance officer

able value £II,262; the population in 1891 was 3,009. Board, the schools, with master's residence, were ·erecte:l

Sexton, James Chaffe, in 18751 at a cost of £2,959; they contain separate rooms
for boys,girls &infants, with class rooms attached to each ;

PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office average attendance, boys, 175; girls, 150 & infants 185 ;
(Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Devon Alfred George Abbott, master ; Miss Eleanor Scoble,
added).-William Chaffe, postmaster. Letters arrive at
6.26 & 10.30 a.m. & 4 p.m.; dispatched at 9.15 a. m. & mistress ; Miss M. E.. Michelmore, infants' mistress

2.35 & 6.30 p.m Board, Coombe, erected in 1886, for 100 children ; average

attendance, 55 ; Miss Emma Hunt, mistress

Railway Station, John Cole, station master

There are also WALL BoXES at Buckfast, cleared at 5·45 CARRIER TO ToTNEs.-John Cranniford, sat. tues. & thurs

p.m. & Higher Town at 2.20 & 6 p.m. week days only Great Western Railway Co.-Wm. Dilling, agent, Forest

RESIDENTS AT BUCKFAST ABBEY. Ubsdell Henry Cousins Alexander, chemist, Forest

Denis Right Rev. Stephen (abbot) o.s.B Willcocks Charles, Steps house Creber George Micllelmore & Son,
Gariador Rev, Benedict (prior) o.s.B Willcocks Richard T. Kilbury coach builders, Fore street
Denys Rev. Matthieu o.s.B·
Edmond Rev. Boussard o.S.B COll1li1ERCIAL. Daniels Samuel John, draper, Fore st
Garnier Rev. John Baptist o.s.B Abbott John, farmer, Wallaford Devon & Cornwall Banking Co. Lim.
Hamilton Rev. Adam o.s.B · Arscott George, mason & dairyman,
Natter Rev. Boniface o.s.B (sub-branch of 'fotnes) (Richarll
Pourcin Rev. Constantine o.s. B Plymouth road
Rouviere Rev. Urban o.s.B ArscottPhillipCodd,shpkpr.Higher town Nicholls, manager); draw on Barclay,
Schneider Rev. Wilfrid o.s.B Arscott Rbhard, shopkeeper, Forest
Barnicuat Richard, baker, Higher town Bevan & Co. London :E c
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barrett Charles, butcher, Fore street
Barrett James, shoe maker, Fore street Devonshire Regiment (5th) (The Hay
Beard John Herbert,farmer,Northwood 'for) Volunteer Battalion (G Co.)
(Capt. R. E. Tucker, commandant)

East John, grocer, Higher town
Easterbrook James, saddler, Forest

Anthony Robert, Merryfield Beard William, farmer, But.ton Easterbrook John, blacksmith, Higher

Barstow John Cole, Wallaford Berry John & Sons, serge & blanket town

Beamish de Couray, Hayford hall manufacturers & woolstaplers, Buck- French Charles, farm bailiff to E. F.

Browning James, Plymouth road fast mills; & at Ashburton Tanner esq. J. P

Bunclark William, Chapel street Binmore Henry, carman Furneaux Ella (Miss), dress maker,

Churchward Gilbert, Fere street Bonathan J ames, butcher, Market. street Plymouth road

Churchward Robert Edward, Bill side Bovey John, registrar of births & deaths George Silas W. watch maker, Fore st

Edwards Thomas, Colston cottage for Buckfastleigh sub-district Gilpin Jas. farmer, R.unnaford coombe

Edwards J effery, Rill Bowerman James Fergus, Bridge inn Gillard Thomas Hall, plumber, Fore s~ •

Ezekiel Lionel, Plymouth road BoyerSl.'fradesman's ArmsP.H.Scrriton Godfrey John, cycle agent •

Flaming John J.P. Bigadon Bradford Wm. grocer & draper, Forest Grant Emma Jane (Mrs.), tobacconist,

Furneaux John, Hill crest Buckfast Gas Works (James Roger Fore street

J<'urneaux John Mudge, Oaklands Petherbridge, manager) Hamlyn Brothers, serge manufacturers,

Furneaux William, Silver street Buckfastleigh Co-operative SocietyLim. woolstaplers & tanners

Hamlyn James, Bossell park (William Cole, manager), Chapel st Hamlyn Richard, dairyman, Higher tn

Hamlyn John, Fullaford • Butchers J ane (1\lrs. ), grocer & draper, Harris John, dairyman, Hill crest

Hamlyn John Henley, Jordanville Hi~her town Bayman Jane(Mrs.),shopkpr.Lower tn

Bamlyn Joseph, Bilberry hill ButchersSl.china& glss.dlr.Plymouth rd Hayman Samuel, tailor, :Fore strert

Bamlyn Mrs. Cleavehurst Callard John, coal & corn merchant, Hayman Thomas, tailor, Fore street

Hamlyn William, Hapstead West Mill house · Head Richard, wood dealer, Scorriton

Heath Mrs. Scorriton Cannon Frederick, farmer, Brook farm Heath John, farmer, Scorriton

Boare Charles, Rockville Capital & Counties Bank Lim. (The} Bendy Isaac, farmer, Green down

Johnson Henry, Sandford, Rockfield (sub-branch of Ashburton) (open HoarJoseph, ValiantSoldier P.H.Fore st

Mitchell John James, Wood view, Ply- toes. & fri.II to 3 o'clock),Fore street Hoare Francis Hy. butcher, Fore street

mouth road Chaffe Wm. woollen draper, "Real Hoare John, painter & glazier, Forest

Opie Ernest, Colston house Devonshire Serge " depot, suitings & Hoare John Heath, Mechanics' Arms

Pascoe Rev. Fredk. [Congregational], ladies' dress serges, Weech house P.H. Higher town

The Manse · Chaffe Thomas 13oon, boot & shoe Hoare Stephen, builder, Lower town

Pearse Mrs. Higher town maker, Higher town Hoare William, wheelwright, carpenter

Patteson James Henry, Croppins Chamberlain Mark. farmer, Runnaford & english timber merchant,Plymoutb

Petherbridgf' Mrs. Plymouth road Coombe road

Smith Charles K. Plymouth road Churchward John & Sons, seed mer- Borswill Amelia (Mrs.) & Charles,

Stephenson Rev. John [Wesleyan] chants & woollen manufs. Fore street farmers, Rill

Symington Wm.Weldon.t.P.Black Rock Churchward Mary (Mrs.), King's Arms Howard Eli, baker, Higher town

Symons John, Road view hotel Hunt John Edwin, baker, Fore street

'fanner E. Fearnley J. P. Hawson court Codd Philip, but.cher, Fore street Hunt Lewis, dairyman, Higher town

Tomlinson Clement, Chapel street Cole John, station master Hunt Wm.assistant overseer,Bossell ter

Tucker Rev.William Henry BJ;owse u.£. Coode Philip, tailor, Chapel street Jackson & Son, carpenters, builders,

Vicarage Coombes James, farmer,CoombeBarton undertakers &c. Jordan street

J• .DEVONSHIRE. • • BuCKLAND• 95

DIRl!:CTORY.

Johnson Henry Sandford t..K.Q.C.P., Potter Henry Albert, imurance agent~ Ubsdell Henry, surgeon, & medical

M.R.C.s.rrel. & L.F.P.S.Gias. surgeon, Station road officer & public vaccinator, Staverton

· & medical officer & public vaccinator Preston Richard, farmer, Scorriton district, & certifyingfactory surg. for

for Buckfastleigh & medical officer of Reed John & Son, grocers & drapers, & Huckfastleigh & Brenf., Totnes union

health for the Totnes union rural agents for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & Wakeham Aaron, builder, cabinet

sanitary authority, Rockfield spirit merchants, Higher town maker, undertaker & house furni~her

Lane John, shopkeeper, Fore street Reed&Smith papermakers, Kilbury mill WakehamSl.RoyalOakP.H. Higher town

Lewis Thos. farmer, Abbey farmhouse Rice Jas. Furneaux, baker, Fore street Warren Christ!'. grocer&draper,Forest

Lidstone Jas. hair dresser, Higher town RogersRchd.fishing tackle dlr.Chapel st Warren John William, saddler, Forest.

Luckraft Thomas, ironmonger Rogers Wm. Hy. butcher, Higher town Webber Robert, dairyman, Buckfast

Maunder Charles, carpenter, Brook ho Rowland John, farmer, New parks , Weeks John, builder, Chapel street
Millman James, builder, Fore street Scott John, farmer, Grange, Buckfast · Weeks Walter, Sun inn & pa:nter~

Moore George, shopkeeper, Fore street SearleElzh.A(Miss),drpr.&sttttnr.Forest Higher town

PearseWilliam, farmer, DartBridge frm Shute Henry & Edwin, bakers, Forest White Ceha (Mrs.), Town Arms P.B.

Pearse William, boot maker, Fore st Sleep Simon, shopkeeper, Higher town & baker, Higher town

Penny Edward, watch maker, Forest Smallridge John, butcher, Plymouth rd Willcocks James & Son, iron founders,

Penny George,boot maker,Plymouth rd Smallridge Samuel, confctr. Chapel st Dial foundry

Penny Thomas, Globe P.H. Chapel st Smith Hy. shopkeeper, Chapel street WillcocksRd.T. woolstapler,Kilbury,mill

Petherbridge James, White Hart P.H. Stancombe Ja.cob, Half Moon P.H. Wills John N. farmer, Hayford farm

Plymouth road Plymouth road Wills Robert, farmer, Bowden

Petherbridge James Roger,ironmonger, Tolchard Mary Ann (Mrs.), Golden Wilton John, farmer, Hapstead farm

& income tax assessor & registrar of Lion P.H. Chapel street Winsor Thomas, farmer, Bowerdon

marriages, Fore street Tooley John. cowkeeper, Fo.re street Wotton Edwd. Thos. painter, Forest

Phippin Robert1 shopkeeper, Chapel st Tope John Edwin, farmer, Colston farm Wright Herbert Edward, Waterman's

Pinkcombe Fredk. tailor, Jordan street Town hall (J. Ford, hon. sec) Arms P.H. Higher town

BUCKLAND BREWER is a parish and village, s! Dredge. In the village is a Wesleyan chapel and one for
miles south from Bideford station and 4l west from Great Bible Christians. At Ekeworthy is a Baptist chapel and

Torrington terminal station of a branch of the London and there are Bible Christian chapels at Thornhill Head and

South Western railway, in the North Western division of the Twitching. The charities of £3 13s yearly value are dis-

county, Shebbear hundred, Bideford petty sessional division, tributed about Lady day to poor parishioners. Here is an

union and county court district, rural deanery of Hartland, encampment, called "Henbury Fort," with a double ram-

arcbdeaconry of Rarnstaple and diocese of Exeter. Tbe part, possibly of Roman origin. Orleigh Court, the resi-

original church of St. l\1ary and St. Benedict, a Norman dence of Thomas Rogers esq. J.P. is a fine old Gothic build-

structure, was destroyed by lightning in 1399, but an en- ing, with a large entrance hall. Collinsdown Farm is the

riched Norman doorway still remains. The present church, property of R. J. Preston White esq. J.P. of Leigh House,

rebuilt in 1770, is an edifice of stone in the Norman and Chulmleigh. The Hon. Mark George Kerr RoUe D.L., J.P.

Later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch of Bicton, who is lord of the manor, John Curzon Moore-

and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, built in Stevens esq. D. L. 1J.P. of Winscott, Great Torrington, Thomas

1399, 76 feet high and containing 6 bells, all cast by Taylor, Rogers esq. and the trustees of Mrs. Stevens are the chief

of Oxford, in 1825 and rehung in 1881 ; weight of tenor, 11 landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chief

cwt.: the church, with the exception of the tower, the crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,645 acres;

pinnacles of which were renewed, was rebuilt in 188o, under rateable value, £3,767; the population in 1891 was 684.

the direction of Mr. Hooper, architect, of Hatherlehh; a TYTHECOTT is a hamlet, 2 miles south.
new lych gate and porch were also erected, the total cost Sexton, John Davey.
being about £I,500! in the Orleigh chapel are monuments
to the Dennys family, former possessors of the Orleigh PosT OFFICE.-John Tucker, postmaster. Letters received

estate: these include a large monument with effigies of a from Bideford at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 4·35 p.m.
gentleman and lady kneeling at a desk facing each other, week days only. The nearest money order offices are
three kneeling children and some infants ; at the top of the
monument are three shields of arms and the motto :-" Ita Bideford & Torrington & telegraph office, Horns cross,
near Parkham. Postal orders are issued here, bu~ not p::tid

Deo placuit ; " at the back an inscription to Anthony Dennys ScHooLs:....:..

esq. of Orleigh, ob. 19th June, 1641, and Elizabeth ( Wyse) A School Board of 5 members was formed May 31, 1875;

and Gertrude (Grenville), his wives: on flat stones are in- John Sanders, clerk to the board

scriptions to William Denys, of Orley, ob. 'loth June, 1605 Board (mixed), built, with residence for the master, in

and Elizabeth (Dennys), wife of William Alston esq. of 1875, at a cost of £950, for 100 children; average attend-

Strixton, ob. 4th June, 1664: there are 400 sittings. The ance, 92; Thomas John Bell, master •

register dates from the year 1604. The living is a vicarage, Board, Thornhill Head (mi::ted), built in 1878, for a Sunday-
commuted tithe rent-charge £235, average £173, net yearly school attached to the Thornhill Head chapel & now

value £128, with residence and 9 acres of glebe, in the rented by the school board ; it will hold 6o children;

gift of the Crown,and held since 1874 by the Rev. Johnlngle average attendance, 26; Miss Alice Chorley, mistress

Buckland Brewer. Heal Henry, farmer, Bearah Sanders Richard, miller (wind) & far-

Dredge Rev. John Ingle, Vicarage Heal Thomas, fal'mer, West Hele mer, Orleigh mills .
Rogers Thomas J.P. Orleigh court
Heywood Josepb, farmer, Bowden Sanders Robt. carpenter,Beechwooi cot
COMMERCIAL.
Hooper Benj. farmer, Gt. Eckworthy Sbaxton Thomas, shoe maker

JackmanWilliam,frmr.Hooper'sWaters Short James, tailor

Abbott John, farmer, Great Gorwood Jenkins James, farmer, Bilsford I Skinner Robt.lfarmer,Rose-in-the-grove

Alien Thomas, farmer, Gustland Jenkins Thomas, farmer, Woodhall Smale Charles &John,farmers,Hrandon

Alien William, farmer, Low. Twitching Jewell James, carpenter Smale William Henry,farmer&butcher,

Andrews Wm.farmer,HigherTwitching Lake Jane (.Mrs.), Coach & Horses P.H Summer Hill cottage

Ashton Francis, farmer, Thorne Lake Richard, miller (water) & farmer, Steer FrederickWm.farmer,TheBartons

Bealey George, farmer, East Hele Buckland mill Steer Richard, farmer, Town tenement.

Bartlett Georgina (Mrs.), farmer, Leverton James, blacksmith Tucker Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Burrow

Collingsdown Mills Albert, farmer & butcher, Bearah Tucker J n. butcher &shopkeepr. Post off

Blight Fredk. blacksmith, Colling-sdown Passmore Thomas, boot & shoe maker Waiters Elijah, farmer, "'rangworthy
Blight John, blacksmith
Penhale John, veterinary surgeon & Wickett Humphrey, tailor

Blight John, blacksmith, Horestone farmer, Thorne farm Wickett Silas, farmer, Hores

Bond Samuel, farmer, Cranham Pennington 'l'homas, haulier & dairy Withecombe Charles,farmer & butcher~

Cleverdon William, farmer, Milford Phillips Henry, farmer, Eckworthy North Hele

Cole Alfred, boot & shoe maker RichardsJames,school attendance officer Withecombe Robert, butcher & farmer~

Cole I..ucy (Miss), shopkeeper · Robins Eleazer Waiter, clerk of works Little Gorwood •

Fishleigh George, farmer, Galsworthy of the Rolle estate Tythecott.
Fisbleigh Thomas, farmer, Veilstone Routley Richard, farmer, Holwell

Fulford Enoch, shopkeeper Sanders John, clerk to the school Blight John, farmer

Harris Henry W. chimney sweeper board & sanitary inspector, Bide- Johna Charles, thatcher

Harris Robert, farmer, Frains ford union JohnsHenry• thatcher

EAST BUCKLAND is a parish and village, near the the Northern division of the county, Hraunton hum:red,

river Bray, 5~ miles north-north-west from South Molton South Molton petty sessional division, union and co1..nty
and 1! miles north from Filleigh station on the Taunton court district, rural deanery of South Molton, archdeaccnry
and Barnstaple branch of the Great Western railway, in of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St.

96 EAST BUCKLAND. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S

lvlichael is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting Christian chapel here was built in 1865. Thal'e are small

-of chancel, nave, south porch and a low embattled tower charities of about 25s. yearly value. Earl Fortescue ;r.P,

.on the south-west containing 4 bells: the church, with the D.L. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is

exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 186o: the stained east loamy; subsoil, skillett. The chief crops are wheat, oats

"indow was erected in memory of Hugh 2nd Earl Fortes- and barley. The area is 1,56o acres; rateable value,£x,490;

-cue K.G., LL.D., F.R.s. who died at Exeter, 14t.h September, the population in 1891 was 1II,

1861: there are 120 ~ittings. The register dates from the Parish Clerk, John Dull.
_year 1684. 'fhe living is a rectory, annexed to that of
Fille:gh, average tithe rent-charge [. 179, joint net yearly Letters through South Molton arrive at 10. :;;o a. m. Filleigh
here and 88! at :Fil-
value £ 2oo, including 28 acres of glebe is the nearest money order office & Filleigh railway station
leigh, in the gift of Earl Fortescue, and held since 1s72 by is the nearest telegraph office, but there is no delivery
.the Rev.Christopher Haggard M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, therefrom; the nearest office for the delivery of telegrams

who resides at Filleigh; the Rev. Josiah Newman M.A. of is at South Molton

Magdalene College,Cambridge, and rector of West Buckland, WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5· 15 p. m

has been curate in charge here since 1890. The Bible The children of this place attend the school at West Buckland

.Erooks William, farmer, Crossberry Hooper Thomas, farmer,BrayleyBarton Slader Thomas, farmer
Cole Abrabam, farmer, Pit farm Marshall James, carpenter Stanbury George, miller (water) &
Yairchild Samuel, shopkeeper Pike George Henry, farmer, Westacott
Skinner Alex. farmer, Tossells Barton farmer, East Bnckland mill
Harris Philip, farmel', Highel' pit Woollacott Robert, farmer, Middlecot
Holloway Thomas & Wm.farmrs. Upcot

:BUCKLAND FILLEIGH is a. parish, 8 miles north- d. 1887: there are 91 sittings. The register dates from the

west from l>unsland Cross railway station on the Holsworthy year 1622. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £210,

hran(;h of the London and South Western railway and 7 average {.159, gross yearly value £163, including 87 acres
miles north-west from Hatherleigh, in the Northern division of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter,
of the county, hundred of Shebbear, petty sessional division, and held since 1875 by the Rev. John Robert Powell M.A. of
union and county court district of Torrington, rural deanery Jesus College, Oxford, chaplain to Lord Halsbury, and surro-
-of Torrington, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of gate. A small charity, the interest of £Io, left by the Rev.
Exeter. The church of St. Mary is a. building of stone in Wil\iam Wa.lter, a former rector, is given to the poor yearly;
the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three and there is also a. lost charity of [. xo, which the rector is en-
bays, aisles and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, deavouring to recover. William James Browneesq. J.P. who

.containing 4 be1ls, all cast by John Pennington and Sons in is lord of the manor, Lord Clinton M.A., J.P. John Reddaway
1772; weight of tenor, 7 cwt. 2 qrs.: there are several esq. of Curworthy House, Inwardleigh, and the Rev. J. R.
monuments to the Fortescue family, dated 1622, 1669, Powell M.A. vicar, are the chief landowners. Mr. Valiance,
1775 and 1845: in 1885 Lords Clermont and Carlingford, the present tenant of Bradlegh, has in his possession a finely
both members of the Fortescue family, presented stained carved oak bedstead, dated x6o5; 'l'he soil is clay; subsoil,
windows to the churr:h : and an American organ was given stone. The chief crops are oats. The area is 3,037 acres ;

in x882 by William James Browne esq. lord of the manor: rateable value, £1,618; the population in 1881 was 189 and
there are three memorial windows to "\Yilliam Browne in x891, xso.

oesq. who died in the Soudan campaign, one erected by Letters t.hrough Highampton R.S.O. al'l'ive at 8 a.m. The

his comrades of 16th Lancers, another by the Captains nearest money order office is at Shebbear & telegraph
.Burn, 1st Royal Dragoons and 21st Hussars, and a third by ffi h1 h
°the rector and his was ce at Hat er eig
oak PILLAR LETTER Box cleared at 3.15 p.m
at a cost of £Boo,
friends: the church rroeos tfoorpeedniend,x8t h8 e7
the floor re-laid, the

interior reseated with oak benches, incorporating the old Elementary School, erected by W. J. Browne esq. for 48
work, and a vestry erected, the whole expense being de- children; average attendance, 24; & supported in part
!frayed by William James Browne esq. as a memorial to his by Mr. Browne; Miss C. Woodruffe, mistress
son: the brass lectern :was given by the late Lord Clermont, A Sunday School is held at the Rectory for about 15 children

'Browne William James J.P.Buckland ho Gloin William, farm bailiff to W. J. Squance John, farmer, Galmington

Lee Mrs. St. Clair Browne esq. J.P. Higher Westheanton Steele James, gamekeeper to William

'Powell Rev. John Robert M.A. Rectory Harding William, farmer, Way James Browne esq. J.P

Lane Jabez, farmer, Awsland Stoneman Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer,

COMMERCIAL. ·Larkworthy Arscott, gardener toW. J. Hembery gate

Arscott Matthew, blacksmith Browne esq. ;r.P · Tallamy George, mason & cowkeeper

iDensem Margt. (Mrs. ),farmer,Grascott Sloeman Thomas, farmer, Hartleigh Vallance Thomas, farmer, Bradlegh

:SUCKLAND MONACHORUM is a parish and j of an old piscina were found in the south transept wall,

JVillage, bounded on the west by the river Tavy, 4f miles which also shows traces of ancient colouring: the porch has

south from Tavistock, 1i south-west from Horrabridge an oak roof, and above the entrance is a curiously canopied
station and 2t miles north-west from Yelverton junction, niche, once containing a figure of St. Andrew: here are also
in this parish, on the Tavistock and Launceston branch the remains of a stone shaft once supporting a stoup : an
of the Great Western railway, in the Western division of old Norman font, dug out of the foundations of this church
the county, Roborough hundred, Midland Roborough petty in 1857, is now in the church of St. John, Horrabridge:

sessional division, Tavistock union, Tavistock county court there are 300 sittings. The register of burials dates from
district, rural deanery of Tavistock, archdeaconry of Totnes 1538; marriages, 1540; baptisms, 1552. The living is a
and diocese of Exeter. 'fhe church of St. Andrew is an vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £2r5, gross yearly value
edifice of stone in the Third-Pointed or Perpendicular style, £3oo, including 49 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift
and consists of chancel, with aisles, nave of five bays, north of and held since 1855 by the Rev. Richard James Hayne
and south transepts, south porch and a fine western tower M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. In the vicarage grounds
with four crocketed pinnacles and containing a clock and 6 are remains of the ancient vicarage, believed to have been
bells: in the church is a fine monument by the elder Bacon the residence of John Toker, last abbot of Buckland.
to George Augustus (Eliott), xst baron Heathfield, the MILTON, a hamlet 1t miles from Buckland, is remarkable

famous defender of Gibraltar during the period 1779-83, for its scenery, at once singular and romantic. The church
against the combined forces of France and Spain ; his lord- of the Holy Spirit, a building of stone, erected in 1878 by
:ehip married Anne Pollexfen (Drake), daughter of Sir the present vicar, consists of chancel, nave, west porch and
Francis Henry Drake hart. and died at Kalkofen, near Aix- a bell turret, and has 120 sittings. There are Wesleyan
la-Chapelle, 6tli July, 1790, and was buried here in the and Baptist chapels here, also one for Bible Christians called

Drake vault; there are also inscribed stones to the Crymes "Rock chapel," at Yelverton. In the village opposite the
!amily, including William Crymes, 1641 : the south aisle of church gates are the remains of an ancient stone cross, and

the chancel is vaulted with granite, and the nave has a fine in the churchyard stand the old village stocks. A Cemetery
open roof: there are good carved oak bench ends in the of one and a half acres was formed in 188~ at a. cost of

nave and aisles and richly carved modern oak stalls in the £400, and is under the control of a burial board of seven
.chancel; the screen across the tower arch is compcsed of members. There are charities producing £31 yearly, given
fragments o~ an ancient. rood screen : a modem stained by Matthew Elford esq. by will, 5th March, 1723 ; Catherine

window in the north transept represents four of the chief Ilbert, by will dated 17th August, 1759 ; John Burrows,
missionaries of the British Church, S. Patrick, S. Columba, lieut. R.N. by will dated 22nd June, 1818, and others; these

S. Boniface and Bishop Patteson, with panels below the charities are chiefly distributed in bread and money. A

figures illustrating their lives and deaths: the east ·window fair, formerly held here on Trinity Monday, is now obsolete.
retains some ancient glass, illustrating events in the life of Roborough Down, upon which there al'e two barrows, i~ in

St.. Andrew, and on the south side of the chancel is a this parish. An ancient inscribed stone, formerly standing
memorial window to the late Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller in the village, is now in the vicarage garden at Tavistock.

Elliott Drake bart. d. 6th June, 1870: in 18£6 t.he remains The abbey of SS. Mary and Benedict was foundei here on

DIRECTORY.] .DEVONSHIRE. BUCKLAND-MONACHORUM. 97

'the eastern bank of the Tavy in l278 by Amicia, widow of Parish Clerk, Joseph Henry Symons.

Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon, for monks of the Sexton, Henry Penney. .

Cistercian order and colonized from Quarr Abbey, Isle of PosT 0F'F!CE, Buckland.-Joseph Henry Symons, sub-
Wight; the abbey was surrendered by John Toker, or postmaster. Letters through Yelverton R.S.O. arrive at
Tucker, the last abbot, the revenues at the Dissolution being 7·30 a.m. & 4 p.m.; dispatched at 9·35 a. m. & s.20 p.m.
valued at £24I I7s. gd. there being thea 12 monks, besides The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Yelver-
the abbot. The sites, the abbey church and monastic ton RS.O. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid
buildings were granted 26th May, 1541, tu Sir Richard
Greynfeld, or Grenville, kt. of Bideford, for a sum of PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Assurance Office,

£233 3s. 4d. Sir Richard Grenville in 1575 converted the Yelverton (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have
abbey church into a mansion, belonging to the Drake family, R.S.O. Devon added).-James Kitto, sub-postmastel'..
and now called •· Buckland Abbey,'' which incorporates the Letters received from Plymouth by mail cart & train
piers and arches once supporting the l;!entral tower of the arrive at 6.17 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dispatched at 8.35 &
church : the house, surrounded by pleasant grounds, once I0.55 a.m. & 6 p.m

the abbey orchard, contains some interesting relics of Sir PosT OFFICE, Milton.-Thomas Dockett, sub-postmaster.

Francis Dmke, including two drums, a table and chair made Letters received through Yelverton R.S.O. arrive at 8.30

from his ship "Pelican," and his portrait by Jansen, dated a. m. ; dispatched, 3.25 p.m. Postal orders are issued, but

1594; a noble barn, r8o feet in length, with a profusion of not paid

buttresses, also remains, and adjoining the stables is a low 'fhis parish was made contributory to Whitchurch School
tower of the Perpendicular period. Here is the Bertha Board, by Order in Council dated July 3r, I885, & sends
Consols Limited copper and mundic mine, which is still two members
bemg worked ; the Devon Poldice and the Franco Consols

copper and tin mines are not now worked. Bickham is ScHOOLS:-

the seat of Reginald Butler Edgcumbe Gill esq. 'fhe Right Endowed (boys'), endowed with £r':d ros. yearly, conveyed

Hon. Sir Massey Lopes hart P.C., M.A., n.L., J.P. of Mari- by Lady Elizabeth Modyford to trustees, by indenture

stow, is lord of the manor. Sir Francis George Augustus dated 2nd March, 1702: it was repaired & re-endowed in

Fuller-Eliot-Drake bart. of Nutwell Court, George F. Buller I85o by the Right Hon. Sir Massey Lopes P.c. & will

esq. of Pound, the Duke of Bedford, R. B. E. Gill esq. and . hold 40 children; average attendance, 33; William Joseph

John Bayly esq. of .Seven Trees, Plymouth, are chief land- Baker, master

owners. The soil is various ; subsoil, clay. 'fhe land is National (girls' & infants'), erected in 1859 at a cost of

·principally pasture. The area is 6,348 acres ; rateable £4oo, endowed by Hastings, late Duke of Bedford, with

value, £8,913; the population of the parish Qf Buckland in the interest on £4o, £2 IOS. per Cent. Consols; it will

189I was 1,4r4, inclusive of the ecclesiastical parish of St. hold 70 children ; average attendance, 44; Mrs. E. R.

John, Horrabridge. , Baker, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Thomas Wi!liam, Myrobella 1 Horn Charles, farmer, Bloiscombe

Adams William, 5 Yelverton Park vils Watson Mrs. Crapstone house Hutchings John, farmer, Mabor

Angear William, Polvellyn West Mrs. I Buckland terrace James Richard, farmer, Longash

Antony Mrs. Fern villa Widlake Thos. Hy.3 Yelverton Park viis JobJohn,lodging house,Beechfield house

Arliss Mrs. West Oakfield Wilson John Waiter, Udal Tor KittoJas.general storekeeper,Post office

Avery Charles John, I Bickley View ter COMMERCIAL. Lewis Fredk. lodging ho.4 Buckland ter

Bayly John, Yelverton house Andrew Emily (Mrs.)~ lodging house, 4 Liddle Hy.Jn. Shepheard,srgn. Penmoor

Beer J ames, Bradford cottage Bickley View terrace Lock Sibella (Mrs.), lodging house, I

Bellamy Joseph Arthur, Hilsborough .Andrews Thomas, farmer, Milton Moorland villas

Bolt John P. I Crapstone villas ArthurEdward,lodging house,20ak vils Luscombe Samuel, farmer

Browne Miss, The Glen, Milton Atwill John, baker, Buckland terrace Maddock James,farmer, Walkham farm

Buller George F. Pound Baker Samuel, farmer, Milton Martin John, farm bailiff to Plymouth

Carn.ell John, Willowby house Barons Henry, lodging ho. .A.menian ho Dairy Co. Limited

Cuddeford Mrs. Holly bank • BeerAbrnham, Who would haveThought May Thomas,fly propr.Oak Villa stables

Deverell Louis Keene, Bertha It P.H. Milton Metters Thomas, farmer, Venton

Eva Thomas, 2 Yelverton Park villas Beer James, refreshment house keeper Northmore Jacob, farmer, Uptown

Evans Richard, The Firs Bertha Consols Limited, Copper, Tin, Palmer WilliamAndrews,lodging house,

Ford William, Rock moor Arsenic & Mundic Mine (William 3 Bickley View terrace

Gill Reginald Butler Edgcumbe J.P. Bawden Skewis, agent & sec) Pet.er Hen.ry, farmer, Bincombe

Bickham (letters through . Ro- ·Blowey Frederick, farmer, Stoke hill PetersStewart,Iodging ho.2Buckland ter

borough, S. Devon] Blowey l:lampson, builder Pike William, shopkeeper ,

Greenway Henry, Moor view Blowey Wilham, farmer, Pound farm Sammells Benjamin, lodging house, 2

Haines Capt. 5 Buckland terrace Bright William, beer retailer Bickley View terrace

Hayne Rev.RichardJamesM.A. [vicarl Broad John James, farmer, Bickleigh Sampson Emma (Mrs.), lodging house,

Harris Capt. Robert R.N. The Br~ak [letters throughRoborougb,S.Devon) Tamar house ·

Heath William, Furzecroft · Bulley William, farmer, Fairtown Shillibeer E. (Miss), Rock family hotel

Jago Charles Samuel, Furzdon Cemetery (Joseph Henry Symons, clerk Smith William Henry, Yelverton hotel

King Charles, Meavyvale to the burial board) Spear John,shopkpr.&beer ret.lr.Milton

Knowles Rev. James, Boutflower Chowen Thomas, farmer, Torr Spry Thos. Hy. & John,farmers,Alstone

Lear Richard Henry, ·Hazlecroft CockramEdwd.mllr.(water),Hatchmlls Spry Thomas, farmer, Cuxton

Liddell Henry John Sbephean, Penmoor Cole John, farmer, Balston Symons Joseph Henry, boot maker,

Morrish Miss, 5 Crapstone terrace CnmmingJn.lodging ho.3Crapstone ter assistant overseer & clerk to the buria.l

.Northmore Miss~ 1 CI'apstone terrace . Dawe Henry, farmer, Yeolam~ board & school committee,Post office

Penrose Mrs. Oakfield . . Dawe Louisa (Mrs.), farmer, Higher Toop Rd, A.ttwell & Sons, farmers,

Pethi~k John, ·Down pal'"k -- • Hellingtown graziers & cattle dealers, Place

Phillips John, Buckland abbey DaweRd.Reed,farmr.Low.Hellingtown Barton ; & at Horrabridge

Picken Samuel, Heath cottage Dawe William, Manor inn Veal James, farmer, Cudgeford

PolkinghorneHy,Geo. I Yelvertonfk.viis Dockett Elizll. (Mrs. ),lodg,ho.Crapstone Vigars William,farmer &lodging house,

Radford Charles Horace, West Axlown Dockett John, carpenter • Harrowbere

Radford John Heynes'" Upperton Dockett Thomas, blacksmith, :Milton Waiters Alfred, lodging ho. Garfield ho

Riches Thomas Henry,. Inglenook EsseryWilliam, lodging house, Ashfield Warren William,farmer,Walkham farm

Rickkord James, Meavy villa Fox Henry Fowell, insurance agent, 2 '¥ard Joseph, farmer, Coppice town

Roberts John, Hunt's cottage Crapstone villas ''Veeks James, plumber

Ryall Robert, Meadowside Gill William Andrew, blacksmith White John, farmer, Milton

SeccombeSirThomasLawrence G.C.'I.E., GraingerHy.ldgng.ho.6BickleyView ter Wilcock Ambrose, farmer, Didham

K.C.S.I., C.B. Tamar view HallsAlfredThomas,saddler&harnss.ma W'1llcock William, farmer, Uphill

Spear Henry, Tor view Hamlyn John, farmer, Sowton Witheridge Thomas, farrr.er11 Whistley

Spearman William.Taylor,Briar terrace Hatberley John, farmer, Harrowbere Woodman Richard,horse traluer,Heath-

Steer Albert Peter, 4 Crapstone terrace Healey Isaac, farmer, Leys farm,Milton cot stables

Taylor James, l\leavy view I Hillson Richard,farmer,Crapstone farm

•

BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR is a parish and vil- petty sessional divishn, Newton Abbot union and county
lage adjoining Dartmoor Forest, 3! miles north-west from court district, rural deanery of Moreton, archdeaconry of

Ashburton station Qn the Ashburton bmncll of the Great Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church is an ancient

Western railway, and Io west from Newton Abbot, in the building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel,
Mid division of ~he county, Haytor hundred, Teignbridge nave, separated from a nortb. aisle by an arcade of three

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BUC.IU.AND·l~-T.BE-MOOR• .

arches on clustered piers, north transept, south porch and J.P. is a handsome building of stone, commanding a fine

an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: the font is view of the Dart Valley and Holne Chase: the extensive

of late Norman date and has the zig1.ag ornament and cable d,rives in the Buckland woods, surrounding the mansion, are

moulding. The church is dedicated to St. Peter, as appears open to the public three days in the week during tpe sum-

from the will of Robert Catselegh, dated 22nd June, 1547 mer months. B. J. P. Bastard esq. is lord of the manor

(t Edward VI.), and proved at Exeter. The screen is nand- and sole landowner. Buckland Beacon, a point about 1,200

some and has figures of saints in the panels, and at the feet high, affords a very extensive view, and the sea-coast

back are grotesque paintings. Buckland church formerly from Teignmouth to. Torquay is plainly discernible on a

belonged to Torre Abbey, but had been alienated previouely clear day. The soil is of a loamy nature; the. subsoil is

to the dissolution of monasteries : there are 120 sittinge. principally granite. The chief crops are cereals and roots
The register dates from-marriages, 1694; baptisms, 169~; of all kinds. 'fhe acreage is t,5oo; rateable value, £827 ;

burials 1728. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicar- the population in t8gt was 71.

age of Ashburton, tithe rent-charge £109, with 14 acres of Sexton, Thomas Warren.
glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and
held since 1 879 by the Rev. Wickham Montgomery Birch Letters through Ashburton R.S.O. which is the nearest
:M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, surrogate, and rural dean money order & telegraph office, arrive at 9 a.m. & are

of Moreton, who resides at Ashbur.ton. There is a bequest collected about 4.30 p.m .

of £38 yearly value f.or repairing the church. Buckland National School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 25 children;

Court, the.seat of Baldwin John Pollexfen Bastard esq. D.L., average attendance, 22; Mrs. Annie M. }'earce, mistress

Bastard Baldwin JohnPollexfen D.L.,J.P. Abhott Williarri Hy. sen.farmer,Bearah Hext Thomas, jun. farmer, Southbrook
lluckla.nd court ; &Kitley, Yealmpton Cooper Wm. bailiff to B.J. P .Bastard esq Hext Thomas, sen. farmer, Putsham

Abbott WilliamHy.jun.farmer,Bowden French James, farmer, Ruddycleave Rowland George, farmer, Elliot's hill

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:SUCKLA.ND TOUT SAINTS is a. township and nexed to the vicarage of LoddiswelJ, average tithe rent-

chapelry, supporting its own poor, 2 miles north-east from charge £38, joint yearly value £275, including 114 acres

Kingsbridge and within ~ mile of Loddiswell station, on the of glebe at Loddiswell, in the gift of Mesdames Cameron,

Kingsbridge branch of the Great Western railway, in the Cooper and Richards, and held since 1887 by the Rev.

·Southern division of the county, hundred of Coleridge, Thomas Francis· Boultbee li!.A. of Corpus Christi college,

petty sessional division of Stanborough and Coleridge, union Cambridge. Bockland Manor House, the residence of Mrs.

and county court district of Kingsbridge, rural deanery of Irwin, is a large mansion, surrounded by woodland scenery.

Woodleigh, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The land amounts to about I 1757 acres; t,ooo acres of this

A mill stream flows to t he west of t he township. The cinha•tpheel is the property of the Brunskill trustees ; rateable value,
St. P• eter, r ebuilt in 1779, is a building of stone, £2,246; the population in x8gt was 250.
i>f

Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, Sexton, John Lamble.

north porch and an embattled western tower eontaining Letters through Mounts R.S.O. arrive by foot post. The

one bell : there are monuments to the Clark and Brunskill nearest WALL LETTER Box is at Goveton, & the nearest

families, and the building affords too sittings. The register money order & telegraph office is at Kingsbridge

dates from the year 1807. The living is a chapelry, an- The children of this place attend the school at Goveton

Irwin Mrs. Buckland Manor house 1Badcock James, farmer, Bearscombe 1Waiters Wm. Joseph, farmr. Long close

WEST BUCXLAND is a parish and village, pleasantly Sexton, William Rice.

situated on an acclivity, 2! miles north-west from Filleigh
station, on the Taunton and Barnstaple branch of the Great PosT 0FFICE.-John Dallyn, postmaster.. Letters through
Western railway and 6 north-west from South Molton, in South :M:olton, received at 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 4·55
• the Northern division of the county, Braunton hundred, p.m. Filleigh is the nearest money order office & Filleigh
South Molton petty sessional division, union and county railway station the nearest telegraph office, but there is
court district, rural deanery of South Molton, archdeaconry no delivery therefrom ; the nearest office for delivery is
of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. at South Molton. Postal orders are issued here, but not
Peter is a building of stone in the Early English style, con- paid

sisting of a chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a

7,lofty embattled western tower containing 6 bells : the east I ScHOOLS : - .. .
The Devon County School ts sttuated onJhigh g&ropu~nrdtl, y65in0
window is stained· in the church are mamorials of William feet above sea level, part ly in this parish
Butterfield, d. 177 and his wife, d. 1771 : the church, with that of East Buc~land : the school was fQnnded m 1861
the exception of the tower, has been entirely rebuilt and b! the la.te ~art Fortescue & ~rebendary Brereton, to _Pro-

.affords 2 oo sittings. The register dates from the year 1584. VIde a publ~c school e~11:c~twn for ~oys of the .m~ddle
The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £tgo, average classes of this & the adJommg counties. The buildm~s,

yearly value [g i1f4t 2o,fitnhcel utdr ui ns gt e e3s5oaf ctrhees of glebe, with resi- erected at a cost of £ 12,ooo, are adapted for t~e receptiOn
-deuce, in the late G. L. Basset esq.
and held since 188o by the Rev. Josiah Newman M.A.. of of nearly. 200 boar?ers, & attached are ~laying fields &
Magdalene College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. s~rubberies, covermg about 24 acres. The ~ate Earl
.Stoodley Manor was the original seat of the Buckinghams ; Fortescue also gave ;[.1_,000 to ~n~ow a chaplai!l to the
it is now a farm, the property of Mrs. Robertson Bucking- school, at the same time rebmldmg & ~nlargmg East
ham.. Murry Thorne-George esq. is lord of the manor; Bu~kland church for the use of the boys; <?harles Cook
Swmton Bland M.A. head maste!; Rey. Jos1ah Newman
Earl Fortescue D.L., ;t.P. is chief landowner. The soil is
:sandy; the subsoil is skillet. The chief crops are wheat, li.A. se,cretary; Rev. <?harles Fre~enck Fyffe ~.A. of
-oats and barley and artificial grass. 'fhe area is 2,554 acres ; Queens College, Cambr1dge, chaplam ; J~ ~· Bea.tt1e D..A.
rateable value, £2,332; the population in 1891 was 402. Lond. Rev. C. F. Fyffe B.~. C. W. H. Dav1s Lond. umv.

By a Local Government Order, which came into operation C. A. Pauls D.sc., F.I.c. assistant masters

March 25, 1884, a detached part of Chittlehampton parish, National (mixed), built in 1875, for 7J chiiJren; average

known as Leary, was amalgamated with this parish. attendance, 56; Miss Margaret Leyburn, mistress

.Beattie J. C. B.A. Devon County school COMMERCIAL. · Jones John, farmer, Stoodley south
Bale William, tailor Miller Thomas, farmer, Leary
.Bland Charles Cook Swinton:t.I.A.Devon
Brooks John, farmer, Middle hill Miller William, farmer & butcher
County school Cla.tworthy John, blacksmith New Inn Public House Company
Davis C. W. H. Devon County school Da.llynJn.blacksmith &drapr.Post office
Fyffe Rev. Charles Frederick B.A. Davey William, carpenter (Charles Nott, manager)
Nott Lewis, hrmer, Bushtown farm
[chaplain], Devon County school

George Murry 'fhorne, The Hutt Devon County School (Charles Cook Parker James, farmer, Indicombe

Huxtable John Swinton Bland M.A. head master) Shepherd Reginald, shoe maker

Martin Misses, Elwe11 Down Richd.&Richd.Elias,frmrs.Gubbs Slape Robert,frmr.Buckingham's,Leary
Newman Rev. Josiah M.J.. Rectory GammonRichard,farmer,Home Barton Thorne William, farmer, Ful'?.e
Newman Miss, Bay house German Wm. farmer, Middle Stoodley Tozer Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Pauls C. A. :a.s.c., F. I.e. Devon County Haywood Bartholomew,farmer,Bright's Vickery Joseph, farmer, Witsford

school Leary Vickery .loseph, jun: farmer, Leary

BUCXS MILLS. See WooLFARDISWORTHY near .BIDEFORD.

EAST BUDLEIGH is a parish and village, pleasantly Exmouth branch of the London and South Western railway,

situated in the vale of the Otter, 2 miles north-east from in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of East Bud-
Budleigh Salterf.on, which is on the sea-coast, at the mouth leigh, petty sessional division of Woodbury, union of St.
of the estuary of the Otter, n miles south-east-by-east from Thomas', county court district of Exeter, rural deanery of
Exeter, 6 north·east from Exmonth, 5 south-west-by-west Aylesbeare and Rrchdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The

from Siumouth and 4! east from Lympstone station on the village is well supplied with water, free of charge, throngh

DIRECTORY.] • BUDLEIGH SALTERl'O.Y• 99

•DEVONSHIRE.

mains laid J;>y the Hon. Mark G. Kerr Rolle, at a cost of " Hayes .l<,arm" or " Hayes Ba.rton," one mile from the

£320, and distributed through eight taps, provided by the village. · Ths charities .amount to about £220 yearly, £go

inhabitants at a cost of £23; a stone, with inscription to of which was left by the late John Hine esq. of Leeford :

.commemorate the Queen's Jubilee, has been erected in the this charity is disposed of as follows : £30 for the parochial

.centre of the village. The church of All Saints is an ancient schools; £30 to the poor of the parish ; and £30 to the

edifice of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, East. BudlBigh and Budleigh Salterton Benevolent Society;

s-aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, con- there. is also £104 7s. Bd. arising from the "Noa nobis

'taining a clock and 6 bells, being cast, apparently, in Domina" charity for the poor. The Hon. Mark George

1755, and one added in 1875: the chancel was repaired Kerr Rolle D.L., .T. P. of Bicton, is lord pf the manor and

-about 1853: in the nave is a tomb with floriated cross to chief landowner. The soil is sanay; subsoil, mar!. The

.Joan, 2nd wife of Waiter Raleigh, inscribed:-" Orate pro chief crops are the usual cereals, especially barley. The

:aia: Johanne Rale, Noverc: Waltri Rale Armig. Que obiit area i~ g,23.1 acres. of land, 40 or water; rateable value,

x die Mensis Junii ano D... ": the church retains benches £12,614; the population in 1891 was 2,636, including Blld-

with finely-carved ends, displaying foliage, tracery and le1g~ Salterton.

'figures supporting shields of arms of the Chiverston, Courts- KERSBROOK is. ·a small hamlet. GREAT and Lrl'TLB

11ay, St. Clere and Tidswell families, and dating from 1534: KNOWLEl are hamlets, Jlnd are given with Budleigh_.,B<ll-

the church was restored in 1885-7 at a cost of about £1,100, terton. ,. .

"When the galleries- and the rooms in the tower which dis- Parish Clerk, John Palmer. ·

iigured the west end and blocked up a fine window were re- Sexton, Robert Marish.

moved, and the whole of the west end and both aisles PosT, M. 0. & 'f. 0.,. S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
!l'eseated in oak, the flooring re-laid throughout. with Purbeck John C. Palmer, sub-postmaster. Letters received from

.-stone and a vestry and organ chamber built: there are 400 Budleigh Salterton at 8,30 &.m. & 8.30 p.m.; dispatched

.-sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year I555; thereto at 6.10 a. m,_& 6.15 p.m. ; sundays at 5· 15 p. m.

marriages, 1.<;56; burials, 1562. The living is a discharged WALL LETTER BoxEs near the u Rolle A.rms," cleared.at

vicarage, with Budleigh Salterton annexed, tithe rent-charge 6.15 a.m. & 6.20 .p.m. ; snndays at 5.20 p.m. : Kersbrook,

£223, average £,1.69, joint net yearly value £192, with resi- cleared at 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 5·35 p.m

-deuce and 9 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Hon. Mark G. PUBLIC OFFICERS : - .

Kerr Rolle, and held since x884 by the Rev. William Frederick Assistant Overseer, John C. Palmer .

Green M.A. of Ortel College, Oxford. The great tithes are ~egistrar of Births & Deaths for East Budleigh Sub-District,

held by the Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle D.L., J.P. of Bic- Thomas S. Carter, Otterton

ion, J. Askew Bell esq. Edward James esq. and George National School (mixed), for t5o children; average attend-

Beloe Ellis esq. There is a Congregational chapel in the a.nce, 126 ; with an endowment of about .£ n6, accruing

·yilJage and a meeting house for the Plymouth Brethren. from Drake's & Hine's charities;. Georga S. Honey,

Sir Waiter Raleigh was born here in 1552, at a. house called master; Mrs. Honey, mistress ,

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. · Anniss William, blacksmith Lawrence John, farmer, Hayes Barton

Callander James, Oak hill Austin Ambrose, coal dealer Lawrence Wm. farmer, Tidwell Barton

Chamier Edwin Fr.ancis, Syon house Austin Eli, farmer . Muirhead John, head forester to the

Christopher Miss . · Bolt Henry, head sawyer to the Hon. Hon. Mark RoUe

Cooper Captain Albert Beauchamp Mark RoUe Palmer John Copplestone, shopkeeper,

Astley .T.P. Temple hill Brown Philip, farmer buildr.& undertaker&assist.overseer

Davis James, Wynriard house Bucknell Robert, honiton lace dealer Patch John, wheelwright

}'riend Robert William, Kersbrook cot Carter Robert, butcher Pile Samuel, farmer, Pulhayes

Green Rev. William Fredk. M.A. [vicar] Carter William, farmer PledgerSarahAnn(:Mrs.),RolleArmsP,H

Hosken Mrs. Elm cottage Chamier Edwin Francis, agent for the Pratt Arthur, stone mason

Lawson :Mrs. Kersbrook · Rolle estates in North & South Devon, Priddice Robert, shopkeeper

Leatt Misses, Rose cottage · Syon house Priddice William, shopkeeper

Le Mare Ebeuezer, Batstone Clotworthy .Elizabeth (Mr.s.), draper Prince William, lodging house

Lipscomb Mrs. Celydd Clotworthy William, baker Quick John, farmer

Millyard John, Budleigh house Cook Edwd. Copp, shopkeeper & baker Rookes Edward Thorne, accountant,

MurphyRev.Jas.Philip[Congregational] Crudge John, veterinary surgeon Rolle estate office

Patch Miss Farrant Emily (Mrs.), laundress Sage Ellis (exors. of),farmer,Kersbrook

Potbury Edward . Hallett John, farmer, Thorn farm Shephard John- King's Arms P.H
Saunders Miss Havill Thomas Tedbury~ mason
Hillman Simeon~ shoe maker Tedbury Waiter, miller (water) & land-

'Tedbnry Miss, Prospect house owner, Town mill

COMMERCIAL. Holmes Richard {Mrs.), miller (water), Trick Joseph, farmer, Hill's farm

Kersbrook Troake. William, shoe maker

.Anniss Herbert, <."oal dealer Kingdom Robert Frank, clerk of works Vinnicombe George, shopkeeper

Anniss Thos.lodging house,OldVicarage for the Rolle estate ·

BUDLEIGH SALTERTON is a seaport, watering additional cost of £x,IOo, is a plain building of stone con-

place and hamlet in the parish of East Budleigh, from the sisting of small chancel, nave and a belfry containing one

village of which it is ~ mile:i south, and about 5 east-by-north bell. The new church of St. Peter, a chapel of ease to East

lrom Exmouth station on the London and South Western Budleigh, now (1893) in course of erection at a cost of over

railway, in the Eastern division of the county, EastBudleigh £8,ooo, defrayed by the Hon. Mark G. Kerr JWlle, is a

hundred, Wood bury petty sessional division, St. Thomas' building of limestone nobbling, with Monk's Park and D01dt-

union, Exeter county court district, rural deanery of Ayles- ing dressings, in the Early Geometrical Decorated style,

heare and archdeaeonry and diocese of Exeter. It is governed from the designs of Mr. G. H. l<'ellowes Prynne, architect,

by a Local Board of 9 members, formed in 1878, and has risen of London and Plymouth, and consists of chancel, nave,

during the present century irom a collection of fishing huts aisles, transepts, south porch, lady chapel, vestries and a

into a fashionable watering place, pleasantly situated on the spacious organ chamber: there will be Boo sittings. The

..south coast and built along the bottom and sides of a small Rev.Rees Charles Price M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, has

but picturesque valley opening to the sea. A stream of been curate in charge since 1886. The Wesleyan chapel was
water flows through the centre of the main street, which erected in 1817, at a cost of £x,7oo, and has registers of
-occupies the bed of the valley,. and is crossed by a number births and baptisms from 1820. 'Ihere is a Baptist chapel

<>f small bridges, giving the place a sin.,crularly pleasing ap- at Little Knowle, built in 1844. The Public Rooms, erected

pearance. There are several good shops and lodging hou!e&. in 1861 at a cost of £8so by a limited company, are situated
The streets are lighted with gas from works established in on the West road, and comprise a large room used for con-

x867. The cliffs, rising perpendicularly from 100 to 250 certs and lectures, capable of seating 350 persons, a reading

ieet, are occasionally broken into romantic caves with rocks room and a library, containing over z,ooo volumes, in con-

jutting out into the sea, and command fine sea views. For nection with the Literary Institution. The Masonic Hall,
:Some distance along the coast here, large circular pebbles erected in 189I, in West Hill Road, is a structure of brick
axe found, which are used for paving and building purposes; with freestone dressings, and consists of reception and re-
-the hill sides on either band are dotted with villas, .or tiring rooms and large hall, capable of seating 200 persons.
broken into terraces, giving t.he place a most picturesque Here is a branch of the Wilts and Dorset Banking Co.
appearance. The view from the cliffs embraces Peak Hill, Limited, for which new premises have been erected m Fore
with the valley of the Sid, Salcombe Height and the Dorset- street. The "Rolle Arms" is a well-appointed and com-
t>hire coast to Portland on the east and Berry Head on the m odious hotel, and capital tront and other fishing in the pre-
west, with Haldon Hills and the valley of the Exe to Wood- served portion of the rh·er Otter is available to visitors stay-
bury Common northwards. ThP. chapel of the Holy Trinity, ing at the hotel, A Flower Show is annually held during the

erected in 1812, at a cost of £ goo, and enlarged in 1837, at an summer by 1he Horticultural and Cottage Garden Society.

DEV. & CORY. 7*

100 BUDLEIGH S.A.LTERTON. DEVONSHIRE. [ KJ!:LLY'8

The Cottage Hospital, on the East Budleigh road, occupies, Treasurer, Hubert· Berna.rd Russell, Wilts & Dorset Bank •

with its ground, an area of about three-quarters of an Limited

acre, given by the Hon. Mark Rolle : it is an edifice of red Medical Officer of Health,Arthur Wightman Kempe M.R.C.P,

brick, erected in x888 at a cost of £900, in commemoration Edin. Exeter
of H.M. the Queen's Jubilee, and has 14 beds, and an endow- Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, Thos. Parker, 40 High st

ment of £1,000, given by the Rev. James Boucher M.A. Collector, Frederick Gilbert Cowd, 7 South promenade

curate of Littleham and Exmouth. Here is a coastguard PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS : -
station. The port is under the jurisdiction of the Exeter Coastguard Station, The Beach,Thos.Howell R.N.chief officr
Custom house. The population of the Local Board district
Cottage Hospital, East Budleigh road, Thomas George:
in 1891 was x,77o. Cann Evans L.R.C.P.Edin. & Henry Frederick Sempl~

Great Knowle, I mile north-west, and Little medical officers ; R. W. Friend, hon. sec. ; Hube-rt B...
Knowle, adjoining Budleigh Salterton, are hamlets of
Russell, treasurer; Mrs. Warington, matron ·
East Budleigh parish. A mission chur<:h is now (1893)
in course of erection at Little Knowle, on ground given Public Rooms (for concerts & entertainments &c.), Willia.ms
by the Hon. Mark Rolle ; it is a plain structure of brick,
Icke S. Kempson, sec

consisting {)f chancel and nave only, and will have 150 PUBLIC OFFICERS : -
sittings ; it will be served by lay readers. Leeford, the Admiralty Surgeon 1& Agent, Edward Mercer, Lydney·
residence of Lieut.-Col. Herbert Ouchterlony Walker J.P. . house, East terrace
(late R.A. ), occupies a well-sheltered site, in the midst of a Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, East Budleigh district,.
spacious lawn. Letters through Budleigh Salterton, which
is also the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive St. Thomas' union, Thomas George Cann Evans L.R.C.l'~
at 8 a.m. LETTER Box cleared at 9·5 a. m. & 6.45 p.m. ;
Edin. 4 West terrace

sundays, 9·5 a.m. SCHOOLS:-

Verger, Mathew Davie, 4 Victoria place. _ National, Queen street, for 280 children; average attend-

PosT, M. 0, .& T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office ance, 71 boys, 55 girls & 70 infants; endowed with. £40
(Sub-Office. Letters should have S. 0. Devon added), from Drake's charity ~ Thomas Henry Griffin, master;_
High street.-Miss Harriet Parsons, postmistress. Let- Miss Mary Hurd, mistress; Miss Eva M. Sargeant, in-
ters arrive from Exeter at 7.20 a. m. I2 noon & 6 p.m.; fants' mistress
dispatched at 9.30 a.m. 1.50 & 7.30 p.m.; sunday at National, Great Knowle (mixed), for 6o children ; average-
6. IO p.m. Money orders are granted & paid from 9 attendance, 22 ; Miss Alice Spurway, mistress
a.m. to 6 p.m. & on Saturdays until 8 p.m
CONVEYANCE TO EXMOUTH.-Coach from RoUe Arms hotel
LETTER BoxEs.-Fore Street hill, cleared at 6.55 a.m. r.15
& 7· r5 p.m. ; sundays, 5·55 p.m. : Great Knowle, cleared in connection with London & South Western railway 3
at 9·5 a.m. & 6.45 p.m; sundays, 9·5 a.m. : West hill,
9.30 a.m. r.25 & 7.25 p.m times daily in winter, 5 times daily in summer, sunday;-

excepted

LocAL BoARD. CARRIERS TO EXETER.-Thomas Pearcy, from lilis own

Board day, second tuesdayin each month at 2 o'clock. house, Chapel street, on mon. wed. & fri. returning same-

Offices, Public rooms, West hill. day, & Philip Watts, from his house, Victoria place, tues_

Clerk;Charles Tanner Kingdon Roberts, 40 High street ; & & fri. ; John Henry Vooght, agent for London & South.

at Exeter Western railway, to Exmouth daily

Budleigh Salterton.

l:>JUVA'l'~ RESlt)E:N'I'S . Goodwyn Capt.Julius Hy.Stoneborough Preedy Vice-Adml.George William c.s.

.Acland John, Rumleigh Gough Misses, 37 Fore street Park house

Adams Geo. Belgrave cottage, West hill Goullet Misses, 7 Cliff terrace Price Rev. Rees Charles M.A.[curate-in-

Adams Mrs. 4 Cliff terrace Gray Mrs. Elmsleigh, East. terrace charge], Park villa

Alien Miss, 7 West terrace Hallett Mrs. 43 High street Ravenscroft Edward William .J.P., c.s.I~

Bat5er Henry Goldney, The Lawn Harbottle Mrs. Meadowside, Victoria pi Elvestone house

Baker Mrs. The Lawn Hemmings Mrs. 4 Cliff terrace Riggall Rev. Marmaduke [Wesleyan]",..

Balfour Mrs. Cheshunt house Hetzler Miss, 9 West terrace Fernie Knowe

Barlow Miss, West hill Hinxman Major Henry Charles, 3 West- Russell Herbert Bernard, Bank house..

Beaven Misses, Sincoe house bourne terrace Ryves 1\'Irs. The Mount

Bell Francis Kingan M.D. Archbrook Husband Mrs. Irene cottage Selwood Mrs. East cliff

Bell Miss, Myrtle cottage, East terrace Hutchins Mrs. Estella Semple Henry Fredk. J: West terrace

Bond Mrs. Sout.hbrook, West road · Ikin Miss, 7 Marine parade Shaw Frederick, 9 Westbourne terrace-

Boucher Rev. James M.A. [curate of Kensington Mrs. Sherbrook villas Shaw Mrs. 2 Westbourne terrace
Littleham J, 3 East terrace Simpson Misses, West road
Kingdon Miss, 2 West terrace

Bourne John M. 4 Westbourne terrace Knott Mrs. Mount View villa Smart Mrs. 2 Sherbrook villas

Brushfield Thos. Nadauld M.D. The Cliff Laidmau Misses~ 4 The Lawn Southcott Mrs. 1 The Lawn

Bryan Guy, Lion house LayardEdgarLeopoldc.l\r.o.Otterbourne Strickland Miss, Prospect cottage

Carter Henry John F.R.s. The Cottage Lee Colonel, 3 West terrace Sullivan Rev. Wm. [Baptist], West hilf

Casely Mrs. John, 9 High street Leeson Miss, 2 The Lawn Taylor Joseph, Norfolk villa

Cork Rev.Danl. [Baptist],Marengo villa Leicester Major William, Pear Tree cot Templeman John Marsh, 3 The Lawn

Couche Charlfls, Lyndale Littleton Mrs. Rose hill Theobald William, Uplands

Cowdry Nathaniel, Woodbeer villa Mainwaring Mrs. 6 Westbourne terrace Thompson Mrs. Sou'Jh cot. East terrace:

Davie Matthew, 4 Victoria place Mathison Robert, Lindenwood Trickey Mrs. rr Victoria place

Dawes Rev. George B.A. Beaconsfield Mercer Edward, Sydney house, East ter Turner Mrs. 7 W estbourne terrace

Dryden Mrs. West Hill lodge Miles Mrs. 2 The Lawn Vaughan Mrs. 5 Westbourne terrae&

Edwards Mrs. Knowle villa Montague Mrs. The Warren, Cliff ter Vine Mrs. Cannon cottage

Ellis William Horton, Ottermouth Neale Thomas, Bungalow Walker Robert M.D. 7 East terrace

Evans Thos. Geo. Cann, 4 West terrace Owen Mrs. Snnnyside ·waiters George Henry, 32 West road:

Forte Harcourt Greenlaw, 6 Cliff ter Parker Miss, Woodbine cot. West hill Webber Edward John, Prospect house,.

Frere Miss, Highfield Paul Mrs. 8 Victoria place Upper West terrace

Friend Mrs. Rock view Pearse Miss, Ash villa, Fore street Webber Mrs. North view •
Gardiner Misses, Ellacombe
Pember Geo.Hawkins,B Westbourne ter White James Colman, Montpellier ho

Gibbons Miss, Wallingford, Victoria pl Philpotts Misses, Selforth lodge Williams I<'rederick B. The Firs,West rd

Gilbert Mrs. Oakleigh, West hill Pidsley William, 9 Cliff terrace Willmott Misses, Mayfield

Gledstanes Misses, West cot. West rd Porter Mrs. Fairlinch Winstanley Henry, Springfield,West rd

Good Mrs. Napier cottage Powell Misses, 'fhe Pines

COMMERCIAL. 1Beer Thomas, furnishing & general ironmonger, plumber,
gasfitter & bellhanger &c. 10 Fore street

Alien Harriett Charlotte (Miss), !ancy drpr. see Lott & Alien Bennett George, ironmonger, High street

Andrews Thomas, photographer, IS High street Bickley Henry, butcher, 13 High street

Annis Sarah (Mrs.), ironmonger, g6 Fore street · Blight George Frederick, grocer & beer retlr. 2 Fore St. hill

Arbury Robert Henry, licensed dealer in game, poulterer & Blight William, grocer, 9 Chafe! street

dairyman, Bridge house Brittain William, apartments, 47 High street

Baker Henry Goldney, solicitor, The Lawn Bucknell Ephraim, coal merchant, West hill

B.1rns John, bricklayer, Pebble lane Budleigh Salterton Chrysanthemum Society (William Icke

Bastin Edward, dairyman, Fore street S. Kempson, sec.), West road

B<tstin William, grocer, see Beasley & Bastin Budleigh Salterton Cricket Club (Henry F. Semple, hon.

Beasley & Bastin, grocers sec.), Kersbroo~ cottage

JDIRECTORY. DEVONSHIRE. BUDLEIGH S!LTEBTON• 101

.Budleigh Salterton Football Club (William Icke S. Kemp- Linscott William, tailor, 20 Fore street

son, sec. ), West road Literary Institution & Reading Room (William Icke S.

illudleigh Salterton Gas Co. (Thomas Parker, sec.), High st Kempson, sec)

.iBudleigh Salterton Lawn Tennis Club (E. W. Ravenscroft Lott & Allen, fancy drapers, Fore street

.J.P. president ; Robert W. Friend, hon. sec. &treasurer) Marker Henry, poulterer, Chapel street

'Budleigh Salterton Public Rooms Co. Limited (William Marker Samuel, mason, 59 High street

ificke S. Kempson, sec) Marshall John Pyke, draper, 3 High street

Burch Edward Osment, builder, 43 High street Mercer Edward, surgeon & admiralty surgeon & agent,

ffiurch..Tames, builder, I3 South parade Lydney house, East terrace

~Burch John (Mrs.), apartments, Cliff cottage Merrick George, grocer, I5 Fore street .

ffiush Priscilla (Mrs.), apartments, Alexandra villa Middleton Daniel, lodging house & bathing machine pro·

tCaseley Courtney, builder & auctioneer, 9 High street prietor, Rhyl cottage

-0hallis John, butcher, Fore Street hill Morgan William, bath chair proprietor, Chapel street
Mortimore James Henry, Rolle Arms hotel & posting
oChown Amelia (Mrs.), laundress, so High street

Chown Wm.Jn.boot maker,& lodging house,4WestEnd villas house, Fore street

CoastGuardStation(Thos.HowellsR.N.chief officer),TheBeach Newcombe Elizabeth (:\Iiss), apartments, 4 Marine parade

o<Joffee Tavern (Henry Mahon, manager), I6 Fore street Parker Charles Thomas, fancy repository, High street

'Connett William John, draper 4, & outfitter 7, High street Parker Thomas, surveyor & inspector of nuisances to local

Coombes John, apartments, Laburnum cottage, West hill board, 40 High street

.Cooper John, carpenter, 16 Cliff road Parsons Frank Newton, bookseller, stationer, printer &

.Cottage Hospital (Thomas George Cann Evans L.R.C.P. circulating library (in connection with Mudie's), The

Edin. & Henry Frederick Semple, medical officers ; R. W. Library, Fore street

Friend, hon. sec.; Hubert Bernard Rnssell, treasurer; Parsons Harriet (Miss), stationer, & post office, High street

Mrs. Warington, matron) Parsons Newton, earthenware dealer, 6 Fore street

'Cowd & Son, upholsterers & furniture brokers, Fore street Patch Alfred, watch maker, 4 South promenade

Cowd Albert, billiard rooms, 2 :Fore street Pearcy Thomas, carrier, Chapel street

Cowd Arthur, painter, 7 Cliff road Pearse Bessie (Miss), apartments, 12 South parade

Cowd Charles, hair dresser, 38 Fore street Perkins Charles, greengrocer, 33 Fore street

.Cowd Edwin, carpenter & lodging house, 6 Marine parade Perriam George Charles, Feathers P.R. High street
•Cowd Frederick Gilbert, carpenter & collector to local board, Perriam HarryChas. grocer&wine & spirit mer.28 & 5 Forest

-7 South promenade Pidsley Adam Waiters, baker, 26 Fore street

Cowd Henry, auctioneer & upholsterer, II Fore street Pile Frederick, greengrocer, Chapel street

Cowd Isaac, bill poster, Rolle street Pratt Harry, painter, 23 High street

Cowd Jacob George, carpenter, 3 Fore Street hill Pratt Richard, apartments, 6 South parade

Cox Drusilla (Mrs.), apartments, 8 & 9 Marine parade Pratt Robert & Son, tailors, 57 High street

fCreedy & Son, boot & shoe makers, 5 High street Pratt Robert, apartments, 2 Marine parade

'Creedy John, jobbing gardener, Cheshunt house Pratt William, tailor, 48 High street

Cummings William, wheelwright, 2 West hill Preston Alfred, King William IV. P.H. High street

,Curry Charlotte (Miss), milliner, 26 High street Radley Henry, apartments, 9 Victoria place

\:Carry George, apartments, II South parade Raymont & Son, corn merchants, Fore street

'Dunsford l\lary (Miss), toy dealer, Fore street Roberts & Son, solicitors, 40 High street (tuesday only)

Dunsford Thomas, dairyman, Fore street Roberts Ch<~.rles Tanner Kingdon (firm, Roberts & Son),

Early John, agent for Prudential Assurance Co. Stone- solicitor & clerk to.the local board, 40 High st. (tues. only)

borough cottage Rogers Harry, fisherman, 5 Chapel street

.East Budleigh & Budleigh Salterton Horticultural & Cottage Rogers William, fisherman, 8 Chapel street

Garden Society (R. W. Friend, hon. sec.), Kersbrook cot Russell Hubert Bernard,mangr.ofWilts & DorsetBank,Fore st

'Evans John, timber dealer, 27 High street Sage William Ambrose, dairy, 65 High street

.Evans Thomas George Cann L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon & Sanders George, carpenter, 45 High street

medical officer & public vaccinator East Budleigh district, Sanders William Fletcher, chemist & dentist, I7 Fore street

St. Thomas' union, 4 West terrace Sargent Jesse, apartments, I & 3 Marine parade

'Farrant Willmett (Miss), honitonlace dealer, 40 Fore street Semple Henry Frederick L.R.C.P.LOnd. surgeon, I West ter

'Fayter Tom, bath chair proprietor, 32 High street Southcott Eliz.a (Miss), ladies' school, I The Lawn

Finch Henry, saddler, Chapel street ~owdon Elizabeth (Mrs.), milliner, II High street

;.Ford Ann (Mrs.), greengrocer, 22 High street Spiller Mary (Mrs.), laundress, 4 Moor street

Ford James, boat owner, The Granary Spurway Willhm, private boys' school, Oak lodge

Freeman Abraham, apartments, I East terrace Stamp Sarah (Mrs.), laundress, 49 High street

J1'reemasons' Lodge (No. 372) (Charles Leyman, sec.), West Stickland Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, Fore street

Hill road Stickland Sarah (Miss), house agent, Fore Street hill

-Gibbs George, boot & shoe maker, High street Sutton Edward Egremont, private boys' school, East terrace

-Gibbs George, watch maker, I7 High street Templeman John Marsh, solicitor, 3 The Lawn

.Gush John, draper, 7 Fore street Thorn Eliz.a (Mrs.), apartments, 4 Cliff terrace

Hall Frederick, Prudential Assurance agent, Victoria place Tootell Alfred, hoot & shoe maker, Chapel street

Havill Robert, blacksmith, I2 Chapel street Trayhurn William, chimney sweeper, 33 High street

:Haydon Thomas, apartments, Bedford house Trickey Thomas, painter &c. Fore street

Haymes Willie Frank, boot & shoe maker, I High street Trump John, shoe maker k lodging house, 34 West road

·Hillman Simeon, boot & shoe maker, I9 Fore street Underhill Sarah Ann (Mrs.), baker, 2 High street

:Hitt Thomas, cowkeeper, Chapel street Vooght Jn.Hy.agent toLondon &SouthWestern rlwy.High st

Horner Sarah (Mrs.), apartments, 2 Knowle road Walters John, butcher & farmer, 4 Fore street

Horrill William, boot maker, r8 High street Waiters Samuel John, grocer, IO High street

'Ireland Henry, apartments, Io Victoria place Watts Philip, carrier, 7 Victoria place

Kelland John, baker, 25 High street Webber Charles James, apartments, Eastbourne villa

Kempson William Icke Samuel, collector of poor rates & Webber Waiter, greengrocer, 6 Chapel street

sec. to the Budleigh Salterton Public Room Co. Limited, Wesley Jessie (Miss), lodging house, Octagon house

the Literary institute, the Chrysanthemum Society & the White James Coleman & Matilda (Mrs.), young ladies'

Football club, Lyndhurst, West road boarding school, Montpelier house

Kerwood Emily (Mrs.), laundress, Rolle street Williams Arthur Gardner, carpenter, 28 High street

'Kerwood Thomas, haulier, Rolle street Williams Sarah Maiden (:Vliss), apartments, 5 East terrace

Keslake Benjamin, coal dealer, 64 High street Williams Thomas Smith (Mrs.), apartments, Rougemont

Keslake Waiter, agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (Hubert Bernard

merchants, 27 Chapel street • Russell, manager), High street; draw on London & West·

Keslake William Cousins, builder, 2 Fore street minster Bank Limited, London B c

Knott Mary (Mrs.), apartments, Mount View villa Yates John, apartments, Spa cottage, West hill

Larcombe George William Henry, dairyman, 44 High st Young Men's Christian Association (Rt. Gush, sec.),5 High st

Larcombe James, carriage proprietor, I Victoria place •

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Great Xnowle.

fCallander 1\Irs. Romaine, Moor croft Walker Lieut.-Col.Herbert Ouchterlony Hutchings L. & A. (Misses), dress mas
Christian Thomas James, Lan.sdown ot.P. (late R.A. ), Leeford
Hutchings William Henry, wheelwright
villa. Fulls Henry, dairy farmer Jewell Charles, blacksmith
Marchant John & James, brick makers
Marter Mrs. Warreleigh Halford William, farm bailiff to J. Nicks Mark, farmer
P~pys Capt. Arthur, Knowle house
Askew Bell esq

102 BUDLEIGH .SAL1ERTON. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLY'S
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Richards Louis, farmer ITeed Eliza (.:Mra. ), laundress ·IWatts Henry, farmel'l
'feed Richard, jobbing gardener •
S&nders John, Britannia :r.H

Little Knowie. • •

Carlile Lieut.-Col. William 0. R.A. Edwa.rds Mr~. Knowle villa . ·
Eardley cottage . Walms)ey Mrs CO:I!MERCIAL.

Chappell Mrs Waring Samuel Perriam GeorgP, fanner, Clist Hayes

BULKWORTHY is a parish and ''illage, ort the river Catherine's College, Cambridge, who resides at Abbots l3ick-

Torridge, 12 miles south-west from Bideford, 8 south-west ington. There is a chapel for Bible Christians. John Curzon

from Torrington terminal station on a branch of the London Moore-Stevens esq. D.L., J. P. of Winscott, Great Torrington.

and South Western railway, in the North Western division who is lord of the manor, and Miss Dayman are chief land-

of the county, Shebbear hundred, Bideford petty sessional owners. 'l'he soil is loamy; subsoil, clay. the chief crops

division, union and county court district, rural deanery of are wheat and oats. 'fhe acreage is x, 115 ; rateable value,.

Holsworthy, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of £764; the population in 1891 was 124.

Exeter. The chapel of St. Michael, built by Sir William d
Hankford K.B. Chief Justice of the King's Bench, I4I4·22, is HANKFORD, I mile north-west; Stowfor ' I north ; Hey- .

an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle town, three-quarters west; and Waffapool, 2 miles north,.
are places her~.

and a turret containing 2 bells, one dated 1640. The chapel Parish Clerk, William Hern.

was restored in r873 at the expense, chiefly, of J. C. Moore-

Stevens esq. and affords about 120 sittings. The register of Letters through Brandis Corner R.S. 0. anive a1l about

baptisms dates from the year 17q; burials and marriages, ro.3o p.m. Holsworthy & Great Torrington are th&
1724. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of nearest money order & telegraph offices

Abbots Bickington, joint net yearly value £ros, in the gift WALL LETT&R Box, Heytown, cleared at 3· IS p.m

of the Hon. Mark G. Kerr RoUe, and held since x88g Parish School (mixed), to hold 40 children ; average aitend-

by the Rev. George Pinchin Allan Blometield B.A. of St. ance, 29; Albert Spencer, master

Arnold Reuben, ~arpenter & grocer, Hancock Samuel, farmer, Stowford Newcombe Christopher,farmr.Heytowll!
Heytown Harris Thomas, farmer, Hankford Priest Daniel, farmer, Merrifield

BlightFredk.blacksmith,Stowfo:rd moor Harris Thomas Fry & Edgar John, Trewin Thomas, farmer, Waffapool
Braund Lewis, farmer, Waldren's farmers, Eastacott Westaway John, farmer. Blakes
Damrell William, farmer Wooldridge John & Emanuel ·william.,
Hern William,carpenter & parish clerk,
Facey Fras. 'fhos.shoe maH:er,Heytown farmers, .Bower
Facey John, blacksmith, Heytown Heytown
Lang William, farmr.Bulkworthy moor

BUNDLEIGH, see BoNDLEIGH.

BURLESCOMBE is a scattered village and parish, on dedicated to the Virgin 1\Iary, St. John the Evangelist and

the borders of Somerset, with a station on the Bristol and St. Etheldreda, and in the spring of the year 15391 when it
Exeter section of the main line of the Great Western rail- was surrendered into the hands of Henry VIII. the.re were-

way, I75 miles from London and near a tunnel three-quarters IS nuns, and revenues estimated at {,197 > the greater por-

of a mile in length, between this and Wellington railway sta- tion of the buildings was then razed. A cattle market is held

tions; it is w miles east-north-east from Tiverton and 5 on the last Monday in the month. Here are limekilns and

south-w~st from Wellington, in the North Eastern division extensive quarries, the property of Geoffrey Phayre Cham-

of this county, Bampton hundred, Cullompton petty sessional berlain esq. yielding an inexhaustible supply of blue lias.

division, Wellington union and county· court district, rural lime and stone for macadam and paving sets, and connected

deanery of East Tiverton and archdeaconry and diocese of by a tramway with the Great '\'\'estern railway. William

Exeter. There are four tithings: BURLESCOMBE TowN, in Ayshlord Sanford esq. J.P., D.L, of Nynehead Court, Somer-

the hundred of Bampton, and SouTH APPLEDORE, AYsH- set, who is lord of the manor, Dunsford trustees, Richard

FORD and WESTLEIGH, or Leigh Boty, in the hundred of Bowerman esq. W. P. Barrat,t esq. Richard Hall Chrke esq.

Halberton. 'fhe church of St. Mary, situated on elevated n. L., J. P. of Brid well House, Halberton, and Mrs. Rayer, of

ground, is a fine building of stone, chiefly in the 'Perpen- bf Holcombe Rogus, are chief landowners. The soil is light;
dicular style, and consisting of chancel, nav~, aisles, north the subsoil is limestone and gravel. The chief crops are

porch, and an embattled western tower with turret contain- wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,658 acres; rateable

ing 5 bells, dating from I636 to 1642 : the church retains a value £8,309; the population in 1891 was 719.

highly decorated rood screen, repaired about I 865, and a fine SouTH APPLEDORE, 1i miles south; AYSHFO/.W, 3 miles
altar tomb enriched with canopies, under which are angels south-west; and WESTLEIGH, 2 miles west~ are tithiugs.
holding shields: the building was repaired during the years Sexton, George Gollop.
1847 to I856, and has 400 sittings: the deed of endowment ·
bears date 1324. The register dates from the year 1579.
The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £250, net PosT OFFICE, near the church.-·wm. Coles, sub-postmastel'.
Letters arrive through Wellington, Somerset, at 7.20 a.m.;:
yearly value £250, including 19 acres of glebe (value 1. 21 ), dispatched at 7.20 p.m.; no sundaydelivery. The nearest
money order office is at Holcombe Rogus. The telegraph
with residence, in the gift of William Ayshford Sanford esq. office is at the railway station. Postal orders are issued
and held since x866 by the Rev. Thomas Charles Tanner here, but not paid

LL.B. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. This parish

has the privilege of appointing a governor to the Aysbford PosT OFFICE, '\Vestleigh.-Tom Grant. receiver_ Letters.
Grammar school for girls at Uffculme. There is a chapel of arrive from Wellington, Somerset, at 7· I5 a.m.; dispatched

the 14th century at Ayshford Court, now occupied by Mr. at 7 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Holcombe

James Rockett, farmer, and endowed with {,15 per annum Rogus, & telegraph office at Burlescombe railway station.

for eig-ht lectures yearly : it was thorou~hly repaired in x86o. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

At Westleigh is a Congregational chapel, erected in x8x8. WALL LETTER Box, Appledore, cleared at 4.30 p.m

At Canon or Mynchen Leigb, are the remains of a Benedic- Parochial School (mixed), built in I8621 for I67 children;.
tine nunnery, founded by Maud, Countess of Devon, in the average attendance, go ; William German, master; l\lrs-

time of Henry Ill. in placa of a house of Austin Canons, Mary German, mistress

established by W. Clavel in the reign of Henry II. ; it was Railway Station, Robert Morgan, station master

[Names marked thus t receive letters Chamberlain Geo:ffrey Phayre, lime *Rockett Jas. farmer, Ayshford court
through Uffcnlme, Cullompton.]
kilns &. quarries, Westleigh Russell David Henry,lirM & stone mer-

[Names marked thus• receive letters through Coles William, wheelwright, Post office chant, Station yard
Sampford Peverell]
• Cox Samuel, miller (water), Pngham Russell Henrietta (.Mrs.>~ Farmers"

Branscombe George Herbert,Appledore Egelstaff EdwinHerbert,coal merchant, hotel, Westleigh

Davis 'fhe Misses, Eastbrook Station yard Scott William, farmer, Westleigh

~Tanner Mrs. Aysbford Frost John, builder, Bedbrook . Seaman Maria (Mrs.), cowkeeper

Tanner Rev. Thomas Cha!IS$ LL.:n. German William, assistant overseer Smith George, da1ryman, Canons lei~tl<

Vicarage Gollop Thomas, dairyman, Oak farm Snow Francis, farmer, Ebear, W~stleigb

*T~nner William John, Ayshford Grant Thom, grocr.Post off. Westleigh Sprague Thomas, farmer, Westleigh

Webber James, Higher Elm Gush John, farmer, Rocknell Talbot Benjamin~ baken,. Westleigh

COMMERCIAL. Hayden Thomas, farmer, Sowden Taylor Jane (Mrs.), Ayshford Aniii&P.H
Hewett Waiter, farmer, Meers farm Thorne James, farmPr, Appledo:re

tAuthers John, farmer, Leonard moor Holcombe John, beer retailer t'l'olley Henry, farmer, Leonard moor

:Baqcock'Sarah(Mrs. ),farmr.Pound frm Luoas Edward, farmer, Hound.Uler Toose •John, shopkeeper & blackslnith,

Bailey James, carpenter, Westleigt. Manley George, Horse & Jockey P.H Appledore

Braddick Wm. Robt. farmer, Redball Podbury Margaret (Mrs.), farmer, Tr1stram John, farmer, Houndal!er

Bray Samuel, farmer, Eastbrook Leonard moor Troake Henry' dairyman .

Burston Thomas, carpenter, We&tleigb; Podbury William, farmer, Pugham VickeryWm. l<'ras. blacksmith.Westleigh

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. CADBURY• 103

I •• IYate!l James, manager of the lime kilnB
• & quarries

"Vickery Thomas, blacksmith. Trumps White Charles, farmer, Westcott
Vickery Thomas, dairyman, Foss end White William, farmer, Eastbrook

BURRINGTON is a parish and village, 2 miles south• College, Oxford. Here are Bible Christian and Baptist

west from South Molton Road station anq about the same chapels. The poor. receive £2 a year from Pyncombe's

distance south from the Portsmouth Arms station, both on charity ; Tossil's charity is distributed in corn every three or
the North Devon branch of the London and South Western four years. A fair is held on Trinity Monday yearly for
railway (the latter being in the parish), and 4 north-west cattle and sheep. The Earl of Portsmouth is lord of the
from Chulmleigh, in the Northern division of the county, manor. William Buckingham esq. John George Johnson
North Tawton hundred, South Molton petty sessional divi- esq. D.L., J.P. of Winkleigh Court, and Michael Tout Leamon
sion, union and county court district, rural deanery of esq. of I Bedford villas, 'favistock, are the chief landowners.
Chulmleigh, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of The soil is dun land; the subsoil, clay. The chief crops are
Exeter. The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient edifice wheat, oats, and some land in pasture. The area is 5,330

of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south acres; rateable value, £3,88o; the population in 1891 was
aisle, south porch and an embattled tower on the north side 678.
containing 6 bells: the church was entirely restored in I86g Sexton, Gilbert Cole.
and has an open oak roof, the piers supporting it being solid P03T OFFICE.-Jonathan Pickard, sub-postmaster. Cleared

monoliths of granite: there is a handsome carved oak screen at 6 p.m. Letters through Chulmleigh arrive at 7· 15 a.m.
and a memorial window to the Rev. James Buckingham, Chulmleigh is the nearest money order office & ~outb.
rector here from 1814: the church affords 350 sittings. The Molton Road railway station the nearest telegraph office.
register dates from the year 1592. 'fhe living is a vicarage, Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

average tithe rent-charge [r9-h net yearly value £26o, in- Portsmouth Arms Railway Station, Wm. Thomas, station
eluding 105 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of master
Wllliam Buckingham esq. .l.J?. of Exeter, and held since 1886 National School (mixed), for 130 children; average attend-
by the Rev. Mortimer Drury Buckingham M.A. ef Exeter ance, 99; Henry W. B. !{night, maste:r

Baker Mrs Farley James, police constable 1 PincombeJn.farmr.Aylscott&Handford

Buckingham Rev.Mortimer Drury lii.A. Ford John, stone mason Potter Samuel Sydney, farmer, Barton

Vicarage Foss Wm. farmer & landowner, Cnzland Prouse Robert William, farmer, Upcott

Buckingham Willi!lm, Northcote manor Garnish Antony, farmer, Twitchen & Southcott

Budgett John Arthur, Bridge Govier John, carpenter Rippin Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Hacknell

Prowse William, North Parks Headon James, farmer, Hill Shopland Thomas Richard Reed, Ba.rn-

Smale John, North Parks Heaman Robart, farmer & landowner, staple inn, & farmer

COMMERCIAL, TwitcheD. Snell Robert, f~rmer, Aylscott

Babbage James Ford, farmer & land- Heard William, blacksmith Snell Robert, shoe maker

owner, Braggamarsh HynamWm.Thos. farmr. Abbott's marsh Snell William, blacksmith

Baker William Brealey, farmer, Cleave Kingdom Thomas, dairyman, Barnpool Tanton Samuel, farmer, Week

Eater Thomas, shopkeeper KnightWm.Hy.Blackmore,school mastr Taylor Philip, farmer, Golland

Buckingham Thos. wheelwright &smith Manning Charles Hy. farmer, Cowlas ThorneJas.carpntr.toEarl ofPortsmouth

Butt Samuel, farmer, Churchlands Manning Mosses, farmer, Week Tucker Richard, farmer, Cross park

Camp William, farmer, Leachland Middleton B.ichard, farmer, Wittaclose Turner John, farmer, Halsbury

Cole Elias, farmer, Leachland Middleton Robert, farmer, Callard Vicary Robert, farmer, Bridge

Cole John, farmer, Bircham Miller Wm. miller (water), & farmer, Vicary Sydney, farmer, Barnpool

Cole Thomas, farmer, Hayne Handsford mill Webber John, farmer, Hacknell

Cooke John, tailor, Pennyford Mills Elias, hrrner, Southdown Webber John, farmer, North Parks

Cooper Susannah (Mrs.), Portsmouth Nethercott John, wheelwright Webber John,thatcher,Hackney cottage

Arms P.H Nethercott Rbt. wheelwrgh1..Townbridge Webber John Halse, farmer,Bouchaland

Dillon John Matthew1 farmer & land- Pickard James, farmer, Ca.tham Webber William, farmer, Curzlands

owner, Pavington & Leachland Pickard John, farmer, Ley Woolway William, farmer, Pavington

Darke Richard, jobbing gardener Pickard Jonathan,shopkeeper & farmer, Woolway Wm. sen. farmer, Week park

. Drew Emma (Mrs_ ), shopkeeper Post office · Western William Henry, shopkeeper

BU'I'TERLEIGH is a parish and small village, 3 rnile1 has 120 sittings. The oldest register is missing; the present

south-east from Tiverton, 3 west-north-west from Cullomp- one dates from the year 16go. The living is a rectory,

ton, 4 east from Cadeleigh and Bickleigh station on the Exe average tithe rent-charge [121, net yearly value £135, in-
Valley branch of the GTeat Western railway, and 11 north- eluding 58 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs.
by-east from Exeter, in the North Eastern division of the Anna Partridge, and held since 1876 by the Rev. Alfred
county, hundred of Haybridge, Cullompton petty sessional Knight Noon M.A. of Durham University. The land is all
division, Til·erton union and county courtl district, rural freeho!d and chiefly the properLy of the occupying farmers,
deanery of East 'riverton, and archdeaconry and diocese of The soil is clayey. The chief crops are wheat, oats and

Exeter. The church of St. Matthew, dedicated in 1319, is apples. The acreage is 470; rateable value, £86o; the

a plain edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consist- population in 189I was n5.

ing of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an ern- Sexton, John Bray.

battled western tower containing 3 bells : the rood screen WALL LETTER Box.-Letters arrive throngh Cullompton at

of carved oak is a modern work, erected by parishioners and 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.40 p.m. The nearest money
others: a plain circular Norman font- is yet preserved: in order & telegraph offices are at Cullompton & Tiverton
the sanctuary js a piscina, and there is a- curious alms box National School (mixed), erected in 1843 ; average atten-
of Jacobean date, 1629 1 the chUI'ch was tesrored in 1861 and dance, 30; Miss Emma Snow, mistress

Dockerill Joseph Bray John, New inn, & mason Purrington William, boot & shoe maker
Chubb Francis, butcher Quick Louisa (Miss), dress maker
Noon Rev. Alfred Knight M.A. Rectory Copp Willism, beer retailer & shopkpr Western Thomas, thatcher
Western Thomas, jun. thatcher &
Ottley Ashton Crispin William, boot & shoe maker
Dunn William John, farmer, Fillbrook machine owner
Ottler Mrs Kerslake Harry, miller (water) WippellEmma(Mrs.),farmr.Cutfisbeer
Lee John, farmer, Coombe
' COMMERCIAL.

Berry Waiter, blacksmith ·

Howden William, carpenter

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CADBtr.RY js 11. parish aud small village, 2! miles north- The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £172; average,

west from Thorverton station on the Exe Valley branch of £,122; net yearly value £135• including 5~ aqres of
the Great Western railway, 6 miles north-east from Crediton, glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1855
in the North Eastern division ()f the county, Hayridge by the Rev. Frederick John Coleridge M.A. of BalliolCollege,
hundred, Oullompton petty sessionaldivision, Tiverton union Oxford, and rural dean of Cadbury. Cadbury Castle is an
and county court district, rural deanery of Cadbury and ancient British earth-work crowning the summit of an
archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. isolated hill near the high road ; it consists of a deep ditch
l\lichael is a building of stone, 1n the Perpendicular style, or fosse, surrounding an oval-shaped area, about 500 yards
consisting uf chancel, nave, aisle, south porch and a ioftv irt circumference, with another beyond 'it defending the
embattled western tower cdntaining 5 bells ; the fifth bell, south face ~ the innermost inclosnre was excavated in 1848,
bearing the motto ~·Time Demn, co1e Regem," was given when various relics were met with, including styles, rings
by the present vicar ~ the I first and third wete east by and gold armillae or bracelets, and human and --other bones.
Thomas Bilbie in 'J:8o5; th~ other~ have inscriptions only Fursdon is t.he residence of Charles Fursdon esq. who is

in Old English charactet-s: the church was restored a.bout lord of the manor 11nd principal landowner. William Henry
t86o arld has '200 sit.tingS'. The· register of bapti:mts and Gater is also a landowner. The soil is clayey i subsoil, the

burials dates from the 1-'Mt' 1762 : marriages, 1756 ; the same. The chief crops are wheat and roots_ The inhabi-

earlier 'registers are sai~ to have- been aecidentally burnt. tants are chieHJ engaged in agriculture. The are:\ is I,8gl)

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lOt CADBURY. DEVONSHIRE. 7

[KELLY S

acres; rateable valuf', £2,274; in 1891 the population was p.m. ; box cleared at 4.30 p.m. Thorverton is the nearest'
234. money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued

Parish Clerk, John Elsworthy. here, but not paid
PosT OFFICE.-Edward Pope, sub-postmaster. Letters Parochial Schoo~ (mixed); average attendance, 38 ; Miss

through Ti\·erton arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4·35 Alice Hart, mistress

Coleridge Rev. Frdk. Jn. M.A. Vicarage Elsworthy James, farmer, Chapeltown Potlbury Elizabeth(Mrs.),dairy farmer,
Fursdon Charles J.P. Fursdon Ewings Mary (Mr~.), shopkeeper Pitt farm
Smith John Barne, Eastern Down ho
Heard John, farmer Pope Edward, blacksmith, Post office
COMMERCIAL. Heard Wm. farmer, Fursdon, Barton Powe James, shoe maker
Be!cher Mary (Mrs.), laundress Jackman Frederick, farmer, Hedgeland Warren George, head gardener to Chas.
Bragg Thomas, farmer, Cawley Kelly William, farmer, Church farm
Curwood William, farmer, Turley Fursdon esq
Gater George, carpenter Langworthy George, dairyman Whiddon Henry, farmer, Endicott &
Gater WiLliam Henry, farmer & land- Leach Thos. Ambrose, farmr. Beers frm
Chapeltown
owner, Uppincott Lund John, farmer, Higher Coombe Whiddon Wm. Hy. farmr. Lit. Bowley

CADLEIGH is a parish and village on the rivers Dart There is a Congregational chapel at Cadeleigh and one for

and Bourne, tributaries of the Exe, with a station, If miles Bible Christians at the hamlet of Little Silver, built in 1840.
south-east, on the Exe Valley line of the Great Western Battin's and Wood's charities are of £8 yearly value.
railway, si miles south-west from Tiverton, 8 north-east Charles Fursdon esq. of Cadbury, Robert Mildon esq. Mrs.
from Crediton and 12 north from Exeter, in the North Francis Christopher Hill, Richard Ashley esq. and the

Eastern division of the county, Haybridge hundred, Cui- representatives of the late Rev. Thomas Uttermare Cross
lompton petty sessional division, Tiverton union and county M.A. are the principal landowners. The soil is loam and
court district, rural deanery of West Tiverton and arch- clay; the subsoil is rocky. The chief crops are wheat, roots

deaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Bar- and pasture. The acreage is 2,124; rateable value, £2,249;
tbolomew is a building of stone, in the Early Perpendicular the population in 1g91 was 260.
style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch Sexton, George E1sworthy.

and an embattled western tower containing S bells, all cast Letters by foot post through Tiverton arrive at 9 a.m. WALL

by Thomas Bilbie in I74S : in the north aisle is a fine LETTER Box in village Scillevaerredcleaatre4d.440·3p0.mp..m; .,WATLhLe
canopied tomb with full-length recumbent effigies, and LETTER Box in Little

kneeling figures of their nine children, five girls and four nearest money order & telegraph offices are at Thorverton
boys, to Sir Symon Leach knt. ob. 1700, son of Symon Leacl1 & Tiverton

of Crediton, blacksmith, and Katherine (Tvrberville), his
wite : there is also a mural tablet to the Battins, dated x66g ; A School Board of 5 members was formed March xo, IS75 ;

the church affords 1g6 sittings. The register dates from the A. Mildon, clerk to the board & attendance officer

year 1665. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge Board School (mixed), erected in 184o, for 6o children ;

£152, net yearly value £220, including SS acres of glebe, average attendance, 45; Miss Mary Radley, mistress
with house, in the gift of Mrs. Moore, and held since 1845 Great Western Railway Station (Exe Valley branch), John
by the Rev. Paul Ford Britton :M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Caswell, station master

Britton Rev. Paul Ford M.A. Rectory Frost Hy. Oxenham, farmer, Catlake Powe John, farmer & tax coli. Busland

Hill Mrs. Bedford house Knight Jn. blacksmith, Little Silver Roberts Hugh B. farmer, Meadhays
COMMERCIAL.
Luxto!l George, farmer, Lower Coombe l:ikinner Frank, New inn, & carpenter &
Beedell Thomas, farmer, Langley
Blackmore John, farmer, Yate Mildon Alfred, farmer, Higher ridge 1 blacksmith
Bradford Robert, farmer, Captains
Carter Samuel, farmer, Mill farm Moore Jane (Miss), shopkeeper Smyth John, farmer, East court
Cross William, fa.rmer, Gotham
Drew Robert, carpenter, Little Silver Norrish Elizabeth (Mrs.) & Son, Tidboald Wm. farmer, Cadeleigh court
Ford Robert, farmer, Lower ridge
farmers, Ash Hill ford Tucker Lewis, shopkeeper

Pasmore James, landowner & account- Wailer Thomas, farmer, Worth farm

ant, Catlake Whitton James, farmer, Haydon

Pearce John, boot maker ·

CALVERLEIGH, anciently'' Cadwodeleigh," a small 6 March, 1654: a window in the aisle contains some

parish amalgamated for civil purposes March 2s, x88,5, with valuable stained glass of the qth century, transferred from
the parish of Loxbeare, is on the road from Tiverton to the church of St. •rremeur, in Brittany, as explained by a

South Molton, 2 miles north-west from Tiverton, in the brief Latin inscription at the foot: the chancel and nave
North Eastern division of the county, Cullompton petty were rebuilt during the period 18go-93 and the church has
sessional division, Tiverton hundred, union and county court also been reseated throughout: there are 100 sittings. The
district of Tiverton West, rural deanery of Tiverton Wes1; register dates from the year 1679. The living is a rectory,
and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. Th.echurch of St. average tithe rent-charge £64, net yearly value £1so,
1\Iary is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, con- including 72 acres of glebe, in t.he gift of Capt. Nugent
sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an Chichester J.P. and held since 18<:!6 by the Rev. Donald
embattled western tower containing 4 bells, the first and Millman Owen B.D. of Balliol College, Oxford, who resides

fourth dated respectively 1672 and 1790 : the south aisle, at Tiverton. The charities amount to £2 yearly. Calver-
called "Southcott's aisle," built between 1337 and 1349, is leigh Court, pleasantly situated, is the seat of Capt. Nugent
separated from the nave by an arcade, one of the piers of Chichester J.P. who is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
which bears a shield and the initials "I.S. :"there are two The soil is clayey; subsoil, rocky. The chief crops are
carved oak screens, both of which were carefully restored in wheat, barley, fruits &c. The area and rateable value are

x889: at the east end of the aisle is a large monument given with Loxbeare; the population in 1891 was 77- ,
surmounted by on~ female and two male busts and a Sexton, William Woodley.
kneeling female effigy, whh inscriptions to George Southcott PosT OFFICE.-James Woolway, sub-postmaster. Letters
esq. ob. IS89 ; Thomas Southcott esq. ob. 1621 and Mary through Tiverton, the nearest money order & telegraph
(Crocker), his wife, ob. 1603; and Mary (Southcott), wife office, arrive at 7· 10 a. m. & are dispatched at 6.s p.m
of George Colman, of Tiverton, gent. ob. 13 March, 1636 : Church of England School (mixed), for so children ; average
on the floor is a slab inscribed to George Southcott esq. ob. attendance 44; Miss E. Goodspeed, mistress

Chichester Capt. N ugent J.P. Calver- Besley John, farmer Woodley William Henry, carpenter,Mill

leigh court Nott Jas. miller (water), Calverleigh:ml cottage

Owen Rev. George Welsh M.A. Calver- Pine Charles, farmer, Hill farm Woolway James, tailor, Post office

leigh cottage

CHAGFORD is a parish and small market town, near 18th, 1890; .waterworks were established in 188o: there am

the river Teign, 16 miles south-west from Exeter, 4 north- ! some good houses, and convenient lodgings are to be had

west from Moreton Hampstead terminal station of a branch both in the town and neighbourhood. The church of St.

of the Great Western railway, Iosouth-west from Okehamp- M1chael. dedicated July 30, 1261, by Bishop Branscombe, is
ton and 230 from London, in the Mid division of the county, a building of granite in the Early Perpendicular 11tyte,
Wonford hundred, Crockernwell petty sessional division, restored and reseated in 1865, and consists of chancel, nave,
Okehampton union and county court district, rural deanery aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with
of Moreton, archdeaconry of 'fotnes and diocese of Exeter. pinnacles, containing a clock and 8 bells,6 of which are dated

The sessions are held on the first Monday in every month, 1766 and 2 1877 : a. new organ was erected in 1891 : there

alternately at Crockernwell and Moreton Hampstead (for is a. large Renaissance monument in the chancel to Sir John

names of magistrates and places in the division Moreton Whiddon, serjeant-aHaw, temp. Edward VI. justice of the

Hampstead). The town was lighted with gas in x869; but Queen's l3ench, knighted January 27, 15s5, ob. January 27,
the streets are now lighted by electricity by The Chagford 1575: in the south aisle is a. memorial to John Prous, dated
and Devon Electric Light Co. Limited, incorporated Nov1 1664: there are various modern brasses, principally to the

DIREC'fORY.] DEVONSHIRE. CHAGFORD. 105

Hayter family, and several stained windows : the large east beneficial to persons baYing a consumptive tendency ; it is

window, erected in I86o, is a memorial to Rev. W. Hames, also a constant resort of tourists, antiquaries and anglers.

a former rector of the parish : a handsome triptych was The most interesting spots near here are Whiddon Park, the

given in 1888 in memory of the late rector, by his widow Sharpitor Rocks, Kistor Rock, Meldon Hill, Gidleigh .Park

and son, and a stained window has been erected to his and Holy Street Mill. There are many Drnidical and other

memory by the parishioners : there are 400 sittings. 'fhe relics of ages long gone by, including remains of stone

register dates from the year 1598. The living is a rectory, circles, the ruins of a hut village on the moor near Kistor

average tithe rent-charge £410, net yearly value £56o, Rock: the Drewsteignton cromlech, situated in a field ad-

including 48 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of joining Shilston farm, and consisting of monoliths of granite
·Colvile Ueorge Hayter~Hames esq. and held since 1886 by -the greatest length of the quoit or upper stone is 15 feet ;

the Rev. Gerald Lewis Henry Ley M.A. of Pembroke Col- breadth 10 feet and thickness about 2 feet; in Rushford

lege, Oxford. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian wood is a Logan stone and a bowling-green. The river

chapels. The Rev. John Hayter and John Hooper esq. gave Teign affords good trout fishing. Chagford House, the seat

the annual interest of £2oo t.> teach yearly six poor children of Colvile George Hayter-Hames esq. M.A., J.P. is a fine old
reading, writing and arithmetic, and to place out one or mansion, pleasantly situated on an eminence and command-

more such children in apprenticeship to some trade: this ing extensive views : it is approached by a tine avenue of

£ 2oo,now invested in new Consols, was a legacy given by will trees and sheltered by lofty downs. Whiddon Park, the

or John Weekes, in 1790, to the said Rev. John Hayter and property and residence of Mrs. Evans, is a mansion

usJohn Hooper esq.; it now produces £5 ws. yearly, and under pleasantly situated in a park of acres, stocked with deer.

a scheme of the Charity Commissioners,dated 2nd Dec. I 892, Thomas Taylor l'oniam esq. is lord of tbemanor,and William

this sum is in future to be applied by the trustees for the Ellis esq. is lord of the manor of Southteign, which extends

benefit of deserving poor children who are bomt fide resident into this parish ; Colvile George Hayter-Hames esq. M.A.,
in the parish of Chagford, who are and have, for not less J.P. Richard Vooght Clampitt esq. of Coombeand 49 )Jerton
than two years, been sc~holars in a public elementary school road, Bootle, Lanes, William Elhs esq. and Charles Joseph

or schools, and who have received from the managers of the Wade esq. J.P. of Dawlish, are the principal landowners.
school or schools such a certiticate or certificates in writing 'l'he soil is loam, resting on granite. The chief crops are

of their good conduct, regularity in attendance and progress wheat, barley and oats. The acreage is 7,492; rateable
in learning, as shall be satisfactory to the trustees, in one or value, £8;~84; the population in 1891 was 1,460.

more of the following ways, as they think fit, viz. :- (a) In Parish Clerk, Alfred Dodd.
granting prizes or rewards to children qualified as aforesaid, PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
and in providing them with Bibles and books of common Robert Hole Thorn, sub-postmaster. Letters from all

prayer upon their leaving school : (b) m paying the cost of parts arrive from Newton Abbot at7.35 a.m. &7.3op.m.;

apprenticing to some trade or occupation children, qualified box closed at 12.50 & 5·45 p.m.; sundays, 5·45 p.m
as aforesaid, upon their leaving school: (c) in contributing WALL LETTER BoxEs, Easton, cleared at 4·45 p.m. ; sun-
towards the cost of an outfit for children qualified as afore- days, 9.15 a.m. & at Westcott, cleared at 5.10 p.m.: sun-

said upon their leaving school and entering upon a trade or days, ro a.m.: Drewston cleared at 1.I5p.m. week days

occupation, or into service. In I79I John Hooper esq. of only: Yeo Mill, cleared at 4·45 p.m

Withecombe, left the clear yearly sum of £5 to be distri- National Schools (mixed), built in I d67 & endowed as previ-

buted on New Year's day to poor families who had not ously stated: it will hold 260 children; average attendance,

received any relief from the parish for one month preceding qo; George Smith, master; (infants) average attendance,

New Year's day. Chagford was one of the Stannary towns of 69 ; Miss Bessie Edith Weekes, mistress

the Duchy of Cornwall from 1328 until the end of the 18th CoNVEYANCE.-An omnibus leaves the Globe hotel twice
century, since which the Stannary Court has been removed. daily from October to June & three times during re-
Here is a reading room, with a library of about 500 volumes ; mainder of the year, for Moreton Hampstead: another

Mr. J. Holmes is the hon. curator and secretary. The leaves the Moor Park hotel for Yeoford Junction, L.& S. W.

market is on Saturday. There are large annual fairs for ry. throughout the year on fridays at 7 a.m. & every
cattle and sheep on the first Thursday in May, September other week day during the summer at 9.30 a. m. returning
and October and the last Thursday in March. The scenery
around Chagford is of a most romantic character. This from Yeoford at 5 p.m. : an omnibus also leaves the Moor
portion of Dartmoor is much frequented in the summer time
Park hotel for Okehampton every saturday during winter

& on mondays, wednesdays & saturdays during summer

by invalids, its dry and bracing air having been found very months at 9 a. m. returning from Okehampton at 4 p.m

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PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Blanchford J n. farmer,HigherWeddicott Endacott Hy. farmer, Great Frenchbere

Bell Arthur John, Easton court Bolt S. & Son, grocers, 'l'he Stores Endacott Henry, farmer, Teign Combe
Calmady Mrs. Holy street Howden James, smith & ironmonger Endacott John, farmer, Mevil
Clampitt Richard Vooght, Coombe Brimblecombe Henry, boot maker Endacott Theo. farmer, Middle Corndon
Coniam Thomas Taylor, Waye house Brimblecombe Joseph, shopkeeper Endacott Susanna(Mrs.),farmer, Lower
Evans Corn. Edward Seymour R.N. Browning John Smith, Moor Park hotl
Burrow John & Frank, wheelwrights Jurston
Whiddon park Chagford Coffee Tavern (Mrs. Eliza- Evans Chas. Edwd. chemist & druggist
Evans Mrs. Whiddon park Garrish Will\am & Jas. omnibus propr.i
Gibbons DaYid, Dartmoor lodge beth Jeffrey, proprietor) Garrish James, farmer
Gibbons William, Cola cottage Cha !ford & Devon Electric Light Co. Garrish William,farmr. Low.Middlecott

Hayter-Hames Colvile George M.A., Limited (E. H. Reed, manager & Gas Works (Willey & Co. proprietors)
sec.), The Factory {T. H. Coom be, manager)
J. P. Chagford house
Hayter-Hames Mrs. Chagford house Chagford Library & Reading Room Gilbert Willia.m, farmer, Frenchbere
(John Holmes, hon. curator & sec) Great Week Consols Tin Milling Co.
Hodges George L. Southill
Chammins William, farmer, Shapley (Samuel Leach, manager)
Holmes John, Swindonia
Clements John, shopkeeper Hallett John Wright, watch maker
Hooper Mrs. Henry
Hunt Albert Dunning, Millbrook house Cole John, lodging house, Adela honse Harvey George, jun. farmer, Horslake
Coleman Thomas, farmer, Lakeland Harvey John, farmer, Higher Jurston
Leach Samuel, Brooklands
I.ey Rev. Gerald Lewis Hy.M.A.Rectory Collins George Cole, plumber Harvey Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Hurston

McKenzie The Mis8es, Colina Col1ins James, lodging house & builder, Hellyer William, farmar, Col!ey hole

Ormerod Misses, Torr house Monte Rosa Hill John, blacksmith & baker

Spiller Martin Tinker, Eaglehurst Collins John, farmer (good farm house Hill John Stone, baker

St.anderwick Mrs. Thornworthy apartments), Lower Weddicott Hill Samuel, butcher

Stark Robert, Yelford Collins Joseph, Three Crowns hotel Hole John, lodging house, Belaire

Syme Mrs. Southcombe house Colridge Jn. farmer, Higher Middlecott HolmesLewis,Ring ofBellsP.H.&butcher

Unwin Arthur Hamilton, Millholme Cuming Wm. miller (water), Batworthy Holmes Richard, butcher
Williams Capt.· Thomas Drinkwater Devon & Cornwall Banking Co. Limited Hooper John & Sun, auctioneers &
(sub-branch), tues. 2.30 to 5 p.m. (A. valuers. land & house agents, rent &
fl..N. Ye Hutte
Williams Mrs. Cranley house Gregory, manager); draw on Bar-~ tithe collectors & agents for the Lan-
clay, Bevan & Co. London B c
COMMERCIAL. cashire }<'ire & Life Insurance Co.

Dicker Samuel, farmer, Drewston Hillsboro'

Aggett Geo.lodging ho.RushfordBarton Dodd James, farmer, Shapley Hooper Ernest Fray, architect & sur-
veyor, Hillsboro'
.Aggett John Weekes, builder, Lawn ho Dodd Thomas, tailor
Hooper Mary (Mrs.}, baker
A.ggett Thomas, ·boot maker Ellis Henry, builder & farmer

Aggett William, church bell hanger & Ellis Richard, farmer, Lower Stinial Hunt Albert Dunning M.R.c.s. xng.,
builder, contractor & undertaker Ellis William, sen. farmer & landowner, L.S.A.LOnd. surgeon, & medical officer
& public vaccinator,Chagford district,
.Amery Thomas, farmer, Withecombe Great Week Okehampton union, Millbrook housa
llanb Rebecca (Mrs.), superior apart- Ellis William,farmer (comfortable farm
Hutchings William, farmer, 'fhorn
ments, near Dartmoor, Brook house house apartments), Higher Stinial

Dall Eli7.abeth (Mrs.), baker Endacott Heury,. farmer, l<'order Hut.cnings William, farmer, Willenbead

106 CHAGFORO. • DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S

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Jackman James, grocer & draper, & Painter C. H. & W. monumental & Rowe · Albert,· farmer (superior farm

agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & general masons, tombs, gravestones, house lodgings; good mixed shoot-

spirit merchants crosses &c. in granite, marble, or ing), Drewston

Jackma.n John, farmel', Yardworthy Portland stone Rowe George, fal'mer, Lower Easton

Jeffery Alfred Henry, tailor Parsons Ernest, tailor & outfitter Rowe John, farmer, Buda

Jeffery James, saddler Parsons Mark, tailor Salter William Henry, grocer & draper

Jeffrey Charles, farmer, Withecomb& Pcrrott James & Son,farmers,Nattadon Sampson Alfred Lee, shoe maker

Jewell Saml. Hy. King's Arms family Perrott James, fisherman & Dartmoor Sampson Thomas, shopkeeper

& commercial hotel & posting house guide Saunders Charles, farm bailiff to E. S.

Kerslake Charles, superiOr furnished Perrott Richard, wheelwright Evans esq. R.N. Whiddon park

apartments, Cannon house Perrott William, first class apartment- Scott Henry, farmer (comfortable farm

Lake Mary (Mrs.), omnibus propria- & boarding house, Rock house house apartments), Corndon

tor & goods agent G. W. R Ferryman John, farmer, Yeo Scott John, tailor

Lewis George, farmer (superior farm Perryman William, miller (water) & Scott William, farmer, Hole

house apartments), Easton house farmer, corn factor & bone crusher, Splatt Frederick, butcher

Lewis George, dairyman agent for the Law Union :Fire & Life tltanbury Geo. farmer, Low. Hurston

Lyddon Emily (Mrs.), comfortable & the Scottish Accident Insurance Stanbury Richd. farmer, 'feign Comb&

furnished apartments, Southmead ho Cos. Yeo mill StoneWm.lodgng.ho.&bldr.Meldon hall

Lyddon George, boot & shoe maker Pleace Charles, poulterer Stott John, blacksmith

Lyddon George, jun. boot & shoe ma Pike James, tailor Tarr John, miller (water), Rushford

Lyddon William, Bakers' Arms P.H Purvis Frederick Arthur, solicitor (at- Tarr Samuel, water bailiff & comfort-

Morrish William, artist, Campbell cot tends on thursdays) able frnshed. aptmnts. Laburnum cot

Nickels Henry, miller(water) & farmer, Reed George Henry, engineer, mill- Tarr Wm. farmer, Higher Middlecott

corn & oil cake mer. Sandy Park mill '\night & machinist & thrashing Thorn Robt. Hole, stationer, Post office

Northway Samuel, farmer, Batworthy machine & traction engine proprietor Thorn William, saddler & ironmonger

Northway Snsannah (Mrs.), farmer, & manure merchant, Rushford works Underhill Richard & James, carpenters

Down park & saw mills, The Factory Webb Thos. lodging house, Bodmayric

Nosworthy John, farmer, Broadhalls Reed Susan (Mrs.), lodging house, Westcott George, farmer, Coombe

Nosworthy William,farmr.Low.Corndn 'feign view Wills John, farmer, Westcott

Painter Charles Henry, assist. overseer Rogers ArthurHoughton,draper&grocer Winkfield James Usher, Globe hotel

Palk Maria (Mrs.), lodging house, RoweAmy(Mrs.),fai·mer,HigherEaston Withycombe William, farmer, Venn

Ceylon house Rowe Frank, commcl. trav.CrossPk.cot Yardley Thomas, hardware dealer

CHALLACOMBE is a parish and village on the in the gift of Earl Fortescue, and held since t88o by the Rev.

borders of Somersetshire, II miles north-east from Barn- Thomas Evans Hughes B.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge.

staple, 14 miles south-east from llfracombe, in the North Here is a chapel for Bible Christians. Earl Fortescue D.L.,

Western division of the county,Sherwill hundred, Braunton J.P. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is

petty sessional division, Barnstaple union and county court light loam on rock. The chief crops are pasture and oats,

district, rural deanery of Sherwill, archdeaconry of Barn- with a little barley and wheat. The area is 5,285 acres;

staple and diocese of Exeter. The church of the Holy rateable value, {,2,750: the population in 189I was 226.

Trinity is a building of stone in the Early English style, con- Parish Clerk, John Barrow.

sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled tower Letters through Barnstaple, via Parracombe, arrive at II

containing 4 bells, and in .1874 was thoroughly restored at a a. m. Barnstaple is the nearest money order & telegraph

cost of £4oo, when the stained east window was inserted and office. WALL LETTER Box, at the school, cleared at I. 30

a handsome reredos of Caen stone was erected : there are p.m

130 sitt.ings. 'l'he register dates from the year 1676. 'fhe School (mixed), erected by subscription, with teacher's resi-

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £ J4I, net dence, in 187r, for 54 children; average attendance, 34;

yearly value £r9r, with residence and 56 acres of glebe, Miss Somerville, mistres~

IHughes Rev. Thos. Evans B.A. Rectory Crang John, farmer, Whitefield Barton Hutchings Jn. blacksmith, Barton gate
Williams Mrs. Old close Crang Waiter, farmer, Barton town Huxtable Anthony, farmer, Swincombe

Dallyn Ambrose, farmer, "\Vebbers Huxtable James, farmer, Wallover

COMMERCIAL. tenement . Leworthy Joseph, wheelwright

Antell Jacob, dairyman Dallyn Grace (Mrs.) & Sons, farmers, Leworthy Samuel, dairyman

Antell Thomas, dairyman, Twinneford Showlsborough Ridd Humphrey, farmer, Town farm

Barrow John, parish clerk Dallyn John, shopkeeper RiddHumphrey,jun.farmer,Swincombe

Corner Henry, rope maker Dallyn Richd. farmer & miller (water) Ridd William Hy. farmer, Widdecombe

Corner John, farmer Dallyn Thomas, farmer, Buscombe Webber John, Ring of Bells P.H

CHARLES is a parish and village on a hill above the lord of the manor, Earl Fortescue, Edward Kent Karslake

picturesque valley of the rivet• Bray, 3 miles north from Q.C., D.A. of Turvey Cottage, Turvey, Beds, and Robert

Filleigh station on the Taunton and Barnstaple branch of the Francis Loosemore esq. of Beechwood, Tiverton, are chief

Great Western railway, 6! north-by-west from South Molton landowners. The soil1s light and good; subsoil, skillett

and 9 east from Barnstaple, in the Northern division of the rock. The chief crops are oats, roots and pasturage. The

county, Sherwill hundred, South Molton petty sessional area is 2,374 acres; rateable value, £2,290; the population

division, union and county court district, rural deanery of in 18gr was 231.

South Molton, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of BnAYFORD is a hamlet partly in High Bray, 1 ~ mile~
Exeter. The church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient north. There is a Wesleyan chapel here and a Baptist

building of stone in the Perpendicular btyle, consisting of chapel built in r82o, with ISO sittings,and a minister's house
chancel, nave, south porch and an embatt ed western tower attached.

containing 5 bells : in the church is an inscribed brass to
George Kellie M.A. rector, ob. March ro, t64g, and Ursula, Parish Clerk, George Davey.

his wife, ob. November 13, 1636: the church was restored Letters through South Molton, arrive at 9 a.m. Filleigb
in r8gr, and affords 1oo sittings. The register dates from Bridge is the nearest money order office & Fdleigh railway
the year I53I· rneesTtidhyeeenlacirvel,iynignviasltuhaeere£gci2tfostr2yo,,fianSvceilrruadEgidenwgtiaItr3hdoe rent- etation the nearest telegraph office, but there is no
charge £I7o, acres delivery therefrom; the nearest office for the delivery of

of glebe, with Bates telegrams is at South M:olton. LETTER Box cleared at

hart. and held since r88o by the Rev. Percival Walker Bates 4·3° p.m
ll.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Right Hon. National School (mixed), erected in I872, for So children;
Sir Thomas Dyke Aclaud bart. P.c., D.L., J.P. who is average attendance, 43; William Henry Pearce, master

Bates Rev.Percival Walker M. A. Rectory Gratton Wm. farmer, Charlesbottom Sanders Geo. farmer, Cbarlesbottom

Morgan Rev. Caleb [Baptist], Brayford Hooper John, shopkeeper & shoe maker Skinner John, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Hutchins Frederick, carpenter Skinner Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Slade

Bendle Sa.rah Huxtable (Miss), farmer, Hutchins William, wheelwright Smith Jemima (Mrs. ),farmr.Blakewell

Brayford Huxta.ble Francis, -carpenter, Brayford Smith John, farmer, Lane farm

Bowen Edwin, farmer, Wellcombe Huxtable John, grocer &c. Brayford Tallyn John, farmer, Charles Barton

Burgess John, farmer, Grass park Huxtable George, carpenter, Hrayford 'l'horoe George, shoe maker, Brayford.

Carnall Thos. farm bailiff to Sir 'l'homas Marshal! James, builder Thorne Jacob, farmerp Wallen

Dyke Acland hart. Little Bray boose NermanWilliam,road coutractor,Monk~ Thorne James, farmer, Brayford

Dallyn Fk.blacksmith& grocer, Brayford whistle Tidball Henry, farmer, Shutscombe

Davey John, farm bailiff to Rev. P. W. Passmore Nicholas, farmer, Deer park Widlake William, farmer, Blakewell
Bates 11.. , Ridd Charles, tailor
Woollacott Levi, miller (water)

Friendship Thomas, farmer Ridd Thomas. farmer. Charlesbottom Woollacott Rbt.farmr.Sa:ndy Park farm

DIRECTORY,] DEVONSHIRE. CBELDON.) lOT

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CHARLETON is a parhh and straggling village-, in the Y:odng JI.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. There.
Southern division of the county, Coleridge hundred, Stan- is also a mission chapel at Goveton, built of stone, and seat-

borough and Coleridge petty sessional division, Kingsbridge ing xso persons ; services at 6. go ·P· m. on Sundays: it is
union and county cour.t district, rural deanery of Woodleigh, used as a church school during the week. Charleton Bridge,

archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter, divided into in this parish, built in x864, and rebuilt in 1873, consists of
two parts, East and West Charle'ton: the latter is only 2 four arches, and has a swing bridge, to allow navigation in
miles south-east from Kingsbridge station, but extends 2 or the creek. Slade, the seat of Mrs. Arthur, is in this parish.

3 miles further through East Charleton, and includes part The Countess Compton is lady of the manor and principal
of the hamlet of FROGMORE, the names for which place are landowner. The soil is clay and slate; subsoil, slate. The
given with Sherford. The church of St. Mary is an edifice chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots and pasture
of stone. chiefly in the Decorated style, rebuilt, except the land. .The area is x,o4o acres of land and 400 of water;

tower, in 1849-50, at a cost of £r,goo, and consists of cl.lan- rateable value, £1.541; the population in x89x was 295.

eel, nave, transept, north aisle, south porch and an embattled GovETO~ and Lms·roNE, about 3 miles north, are hamlets.
'Western tower, w1th turt·et, containing 4 bells: the pulpit Parish Clerk, Henry Burner.
and font are of Caen stone: the chancel retains sedilia and PosT OFFICE, West Charleton.-Mrs. Elizabeth Gillard, sub-
piscina, and there are several tablets to the Twysden family 1 postmistress. Letters from Kingsbridge received at 7.20
the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. Thomas a.m.: cleared at 5·45 p.m. week days; on sundays at 10.I5

'fwysden M.A. viear 1842-88 : there are also two small p. m. The nearest money order & telegrapl.l office is at

· memorial windows to Mrs. Twysden, and a large tablet in Frogmore
the south transept to the Rev. Thomas Whinyates, a former ScaooLs :~
rector: there are 350 sittings. The register dates from the Church (mixed), rebuilt in x88g by Earl Compton, for 100
year xs6o. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge as children; average attendance, 54 ; Miss .Mary Smith~

commuted, £557, average £423 ; net rea.rly value £414, in- mistress
eluding 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in 'the gift of the Church (at mission chapel), Goveton ; average attendance,
Countess Compton, and held since 1891 by the Rev. Vincent 44 ; Miss Minnie Collins, mistress

Charleton. Cornish Edward, farmer & assistant Wills Ambrose, Ashburton Arms P.R. &

Arthur Mrs. Slade house overseer, East fal'm farmer ·
Gardiner Miss
~hortland Mrs. Courtland Damerell Henry, mar1ne 1!tore dealer Goveton.
Smith Miss, Laurel cottage
Young Rev. Vincent M.A. The Rectory Farr Henry, carpenter, East Cbarleton Grills Henry, blacksmith
Gillard Elizh. (Mrs.), shopkpr. Post off Lamble Waiter, carpenter
COMMERCIAL. Harley Sarah (Miss), grocer & draper Waiters William, farmer
Harvey Thomas, farmer, Higher Torr Widger Richard, farmer
Langworthy Robert, farmer, Sigdon Winzer Edward & Sons, engineers &c
Martin Thomas, carpenter
Lidstone.
Blake Henry, builder Maye Mary (Mrs.) & Sons, frmrs. Croft

Bowden John, farmer Quick Peter, tailor Cole William, farmer

Coaker Alfd.James, farmer, Manor farm Shepherd John, farmer, Courtland Horswill Samuel, farmer

Coaker Frank, farmer Trant Philip, sen. farmer, Borough Shepherd John, farmer & overseer

Cornish Edward R. farmer, Lower Torr

CHAWLEIGH is a parish. and village, 2 miles north· yearly value. A fair is held on May 6, and formerly one on

east from Eggesford station on theNorth Devon branch of the the Tuesday before the last Thursday in October, but the

London and South.Western railway (which is in this parish), latter is now in disuse. A montl.lly market is held at the

2 south-east from Chulmleigb, 12 north-west from Crediton Fox and Hounds hotel on every second Wednesday, except

and xo south from South Molton, in the Northern division in September and December, when it is on the first Wednes-

of the county, North Tawton hundred, South Molton petty day, for cattle, sheep, horses, produce, implements &c. and

sessional division, Crediton union and county court district, is well attended. The Earl of Portsmouth J.P. who is lord

rural deanery of Chulmleigh, archdeaconry of Barnstaple of the manor, and Sir George Stucley Stucley bart.. J.P., D.L.

and diocese of Exeter. The Little Dart-separates Chawleigh of Moreton, Bideford, and Sir William Robert Williams bart.

from Chulmleigh and Cheldon parishes on the north, forming of Heanton Court, are the principal landowners. The soil is

the chief portion of the boundary on that side, and, running loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and

througq the parish, joins the Taw on the west. The church of barley. The area is 5,359 acres;. rateable value, £4,188;

St. James is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English the population in ~S91 was 613.

etyle, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an BuRRIDGE is a ha.mlet, 3 miles east.

embattled western tower containing 6 bells : the nave is CHENSON is a hamlet, 2 miles south.

.separated from the chancel by a screen of good charat.:ter: in PosT 0Fl<'ICE.-Mrs. Maria Josland, receiver. Letters by

1874 the interior of the church was thoroughly restored and a foot post through Chulmleigh, arrive at 7 a.m. ~ dis-

clock erected, at a total cost of about£1,450: there are 300 patched at 6.20 p.m. · Chulmleigh is the nearest money

sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1544 ; order & telegraph office ·

marriages, ~547; burials, I559· The living is a rectory, A School Board of five members for the united district of

average tithe rent-charge £355 1 gross yearly value £338, Chawleigh & Cheldon was formed J~n. 24, 1873; J.

including 97 acres of glebe, witb. residence, in the gift of the Hannaford, Chulmleigh, clerk to the board

Earl of Portsmouth, and held since 1879 by the Rev. John Board School (mixed), for 12o·children; average attendance~

Vowler Tanner B. A. of Caius College, Cambridge: the 36 boys, 40 girls & 27 infants; John Baple, master; Mrs.

rectory house was built in 188o. There are Bible Christian llaple, mistress

and Congregational chapels. The charities are of £go Eggesford Railway Station, Enoch Braithwaite,statiou mastr

Cann John EllacottRobert,farmer & miller(water), Reed Thomas, farmer, West hill

Tanner Rev. John Vowler B. A., J.P., n.r.. Stone mill Rippin John, farmer, East hill

Rectory Ford Edmund, farmer, Nethercot Sage Thomas, mason & shopkeE'!per

COMMERCIAL. Ford John, baker Sanders Thos. farmer, Chawleigh week

Adams Jn. Hy. farmer, Parsonage farm Francis William, farmer, Longdown Saunders Anthony, farmer, Fiddlecot

llaker Thomas. farmer, Barton Gardner James, tailor Saunders Fanny (Miss), dress maker

Bater Isaac, tailor Goss George, thatcher Saunders Isaac,fmr.& landownr.Nutson

Bird Joanna (Mrs.), shopkeeper JoslandMaria{Mrs.),gro.&drpr.Post off Snell Samuel, farmer, Poundsford

Bradford Roger, boot & shoe maker Lawrence Edmund, shoe maker Snell Thomas, boot & shoe maker

Butt John, farmer, Burridge [letters Nichalls John, wheelwrig~ Tucker Charles, farmer, Leaches

received through Morchard Bishop Parish William, poulterer & farmer, Turner Jame!", farmer, Ford

R.S.O] Little Moortown Vickery George Andrew, clerk of works

Cheriton William, farmer. Moortown. Pa.rkhouseRchd.farmr.& cattle dlr.Ford to Earl of Portsmouth, Saw mills

Cook Barthblomew, farmerp Handsford Partridge Richard, farmer, Hardings [letters received through Eggesford

Dart Phillip~ farmer, But close Petherick Lewis, bl!'cksmith Wembworthy R.S.O]

Davey John, farmer, Week mill Phillips Henry & Son,farmers,Eastleigh Webber James, boot maker

Dilling Jas. blacksmith & rate collector Pickard Rober4 farmer, CheiM!on WebberJn. Portsmouth hotel; k farmer

Edwocthy Fk.Royal Oak P.B.& wheelwt Reed Thomas, farmer· & landowner, Webber William, cooper

Elworthy Mary (Mrs. ),fannr. Duck ham Toatworthy Webber Wm.'frmr. Homland&Southcott~

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CHELDON is a village and parish, intersected '()11 the petty sessional division, union and co11nty coul't distric'f>

sou.th. by •the Little Dart river~ 4 miles north-east from rural deanery of Chulmleigh, archdeaconry of Baiiil,staple and

Eggesford station on the North Devon branch of the London diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Mary js a ~mall build-

and S<mth Western railway, 4 east-by-south from Chulm- ing of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel~

leigh and 10 south from South Molton, iu the Northern nave,$0uth porch and an embattled western tower containing

·dh,it;ion, -of the oounty, Witheridge hundred; South ,Molton 3 bellS(: it wa.s res~ored in 1873, by the Earl of Portsmouth,

108 CHELDON. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLY'S

at a cost of £5oo, and has 40 sittings.- The register dates The area is 1,xo8 acres; rateable value, £sBg; the popu-

from the year 1708. The living is a rectory, average lation in x8gx was sB.

ti.che rent-charge £ss, net yearly value £xzo, including 35 Parish Clerk, John Greenslade.

acres of glebe, with restdence, in the gift of the Earl of
Portsmouth, and held since 1877 by the Rev. Charles Henry Letters by foot post through Chulmleigh, which is the nearest
Stone B.A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The charities money order & telegraph office, arrive at 9 a. m

include [100 Governm:mt stock, left by Herman Storme WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 5·35 p.m

May, in 1876, the interest of which, £z 15s. 8d. is distributed This place is included in the United School Board district of

yearly in the parish. The Earl of Portsmouth is lord of Chawleigh & Cheldon, formed January 24th, 1873

the manor and sole landowner. The soil •is loam; the The children of this place attend the Board school at Chaw-

Isubsoil is clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. leigh 1Short William, farmer, East Cheldon

S ,one Rev. Charles Henry B.A. Rectory Pass more William, farmer, Glebe 1 Webber John, farmer, Barton

Partridge Anthony,farmr.Mounticombe Short William, farmer, Winswood

CHERITON BISHOP is a parish and village in a principal seat is Venbridge House, the property of Henley

delightful da:e, the high road from Exeter to Falmouth Grose Smith esq. of St. Helen's, Isle of Wight, and is now

passing through a portion of it, 4 miles south from in the occupation of Reginald Templar f'Sq. The chief land·

Yeoford station on the main line of the London and South owners are Francis Drummond Fulford esq. D.L., l.P. of

Western railway, 10 west from Exeter aud 7 south-west Great Fulford, Messrs. J. W. Hole, Mr. W. G. Haydon,

from Crediton, in the Mid division of the county, Wonford Mr. John Lambert Gorwyn, John Ponsford esq. H. G. Smith

b.undred, Crockernwell petty sessional division, Crediton esq. John Guscotte esq. G. B. Pennell esq. the trustees of

union and county court district, rural deanery of Kenn and William C. Morris, Mr. Knapman, P. F. Bellew esq. John

archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Strong of Drewsteignton, William Henry Kelland esq. Mr.

Mary is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English William Farley, Capt. W. E. Elphinstone-St!!ne B.N. and

and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north Mr. T. Tabb. The soil is clayey; the subsoil is wet, yellow

aisle, south porch and a fiue embattled western tower, con- clay; the land has been improved by draining. The chief

taining 6 bells, all dated 1770, except the fourth, which was crops are wheat and apples. The area is 4,875 acres ;

cast in r8o3: the church retains a Norman font, and there rateable value, £3,421 ; the population in r891 was 560.

are several stained windows and mural tablets to the Rev. CHERITON C:aoss is a hamlet on the road between Exeter

Henry Fothergill M.A. forty-five years rector of the parish, aud Okehampton, about half a mile south of the church.

.d. 1792; and John Davy esq. and his two wives, ob. 1695: There is a small Wesleyan chapel here with roo sittings.

the south wall and porch were rebuilt in 1884 by the late CROCKERNWELL is a small village, about 2 miles south-

Rd ward Hyde Pennell esq. : there are 250 sittings. The west, and likewise on the main road, partly in Cheriton

'l"egister dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, Bishop parish and partly in the parish of Drewsteigntor..

:average tithe .rent-charge (,3oo, net yearly income £321," The chapel of ease here, built in r88o by the late Edward

including 56 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Pennell esq. consists of chancel, nave and a small vestry,

Bishop of Exeter, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Joseph and has 120 s1ttings.

Brettell Housman M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. There Parish Clerk, Samuel Davy.

is a small Plymouth Brethren chapel, seating 100 persons. PosT OFFICE.-Joseph Tancock, receiver. Letters from

The charities amount to about [15 yearly value, and are Exeter, vii\. Dunsfc.rd, delivered at 10 a.m. ; dispatched at

jm·ested in the names of feoffees. A pleasure fair is annually 4.20 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Dunsford

held on Wednesday in Whitsun week. The manor, now dis- & telegraph office at Yeoford railway station. Postal

membered, anciently belonged to the Bishops of Exeter, who 1 orders are issued here, but not paid

bad considerable landed property here. The manor of Egg- PosT OFFICE, Crockernwell.-John Knapman, receiver.

beare belonged to the Kellys, afterwards to the Fulfords, and Letters from Newton Abbott, via Chagford, delivered

is now the property of Francis DrummondFulford esq. D.L., about n a.m.; dispatched at 3.30 p.m. The nearest

J.P. of Great, Fulford: the man('r of Lampford, said to have money order office is at Dunsford & telegraph office at

been anciently the chief manor here, also belongs to him. Chagford

The manor of Medland, which once belonged to 'l'ewkesbury A School Board of 5 members was formed Dec. 18, 1874;

Abbey,is now held by George Pennell esq. (',oxland belongs to Mrs. Mary Sanders, clerk to the board ; Samuel L. Davy,

Mr. J. L. Gorwyn; Horselake, to John Guscotte esq. Pitton, Cheriton Cross, attendance officf'r

Mill and North Bowden, together 393 acres in extent, are Bqard School (mixed), built in 188o, at a cost of £soo, for

partly in this parish and partly in Crediton, and were pur- 100 children; average attendance, 72; George Sanders,

chased in 1876 of the Pennells by Mr. William Cheriton master; Mrs. Clara Lake, assistant mistress

Morris. Easton, held for generations by the Bragg family, CARRIERS from Cheriton to Exeter, tues. & fri..Thomas Bolt,

is now the property of Mrs. Ponsford, of Budleigh Salterton. Alfred Madge, John Madge & Oliver Gidley. Carriers

Hackworthy and Melhuish belong to F. D. Fulford esq. l.P. from Drewsteignton, Zeal, South Tawton & other places,

-and Upper Mounson to Mrs. Tabb of Redrutb, Cornwall. pass through to Exeter on tues. & fri. returning the same

• The barton of Meston belongs to John Ponsford esq. The days

Cheriton Bishop. Gorwyn Haylake, farmer, Haylake Pike George, farmer, Down

Clare William Leigh, The Cottage ~uscott Charles, butcher Pitts Wm. & John, farmers, Honeyford
Pook Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Elphinstone-StoneCpt.WebbE.Westbeer Guscotte John,,yeoman, West Dow.n Pook Wilham, carpenter &shopkeeper
llockaday John Woodleigh Harvey Henry, Royal Oak P.H.& bmlder Poseland John, farm bailiff to Messrs.

Housman Rev: Joseph Brettell M.A. Hawkins '!illiam, farm~r, Gorren John Hole & Son
The Rectory
Haydon Georg~, vetermary surgeon,

Templar Reginald Venbridge house yeoman & assistant overseer Sanders George J ames, schoolmaster
'
Haydon William Gorwyn, farmer & Seward William, farmer, Easton
COMMERCIAL. landowner, Forder farm
Simmons William, farmer, Wilson

Acland Hugh, farmer, Pitton farm HaydonJn. farmer & landowner,Higher Tancock J oseph, stone mason,Post office

~aker Francis, farmer, Mounson, West- Eggbeer, Middle Eggbeer & Jervis Wills George, farmer, Eastwoodbrook

wood & Natson Heales Thomas, farmer, Lewdon Crockernwell.

laker Thos. farmer, Madland Ho. farm Hole John & Son, farmers & land- Baker John, farmer, Treble

'.6eer Jn. blacksmith; & at Crockenwell owners, West Pitton & Thorn Beer John, blacksmith

Bennett William, boot maker Hutchings John, thatcher & shopkeeper Bolt Edwin, Royal hotel & farmer

Blanchford William, farmer, Hole Jarvis Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper & Ching Thomas, saddler

Butt James, thatcher coal dealer Knapman Jn.baker&sbopkpr.Post office

Eutt John, thatcher Jarvis Waiter, butcher Matthews John, baker

'Davy Saml. blacksmith, Cheriton cross Labbett James, farmer, Cross farm Stanbury Ann (Mrs.), wheelwright

lFarley James, cowkeeper & nnrseryman Lake Jeremiah Jervis, New inn Vigers Samuel, tailor

Gorwyn John Lambert, farmer & land- Leach William, farmer, Lower Eggbeer Wra.yford Ja.mes, farmer, Lambert ho

owner, Coxland Leaworthy George, farmer, Tillerton Wrayford William, farmer, Hooperton

.CHERITON FITZPAINE is a parish and village, eel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western

situated xi miles north-west from the Crediton and Tiver- tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells, dated

ton road, 9 miles north-north-west from Exeter, 5 north- respectively 1770, 1767, 1727 (3 and 4) and 1665; an addi-

north-east from Crediton station on the main line of the tional bell has this year (1893) been hung, so as to make a

London and South Western railway, and 8 south-west from peal of 6: at the east end are three stained windows: there

''fiverton, in the Northern divi&ion of the county, West Bnd- is also a mural tablet to John Moore esq. of Upcott, d. 1700;
·leigh hundred, Crediton petty sessional division, union and and to Sara, his wife, d. 1695: the church was thoroughly

county court district, rural deanery of Cadbnry and arch- restored in I885, at a cost of £9oo, and affords 3oosittings.

deaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Mary is The register of baptisms dates from the year 166o ; mar-

an ancient structure in the Gothic style, consisting of chan· riages, 1663; burials, 166~. The living is a rectory, &\"erage

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. CHITTLEHAMP'fON. lOt!

tithe-rent charge commuted at £992, net yearly value £746 turnips and wheat. The area is 4.735 acres; rateable
and 34 acre&~ of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held value, £5,683; the population in r8gr was 6gg.
smce r 873 by the Rev. William Henry Arundell M. A. of Exeter Sexton, George Maunder.

College, Oxford. There is a Congregational chapel seating PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

I50 persons, and a Bible Christian chapel with roo sittings. Daniel Prior, sub-postmaster. Letters received from
The charities, which are distributed annually amongst the Crediton at 8.30 a. m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The

poor of the parish, amount to £So. There are 6 well-built telegraph office is at Crediton

almshouses, endowed by Andrew Scut esq. in 1594, with a A School Board of 5 members was formed April 2, r875, for
house now (1893) let for .£42, for poor widows of the parish the united district of Cheriton Fitzpaine & Stockleigh ;
who have not received parish relief. The rector is lord of Robert Melhuish,.clerk to the board & attendance officer
the manor. The principal landowners are Lieut-Col. Sir Board School (mixed), for 130 children; average attend-
John Davie Ferguson-Davie bart J.P.; Charles Fursdon ance, 95; F. Parkin, master; Mrs. Sarah Wootton.
c,sq. of Cadbury, and William Cornish Cleave esq. of The mistress & Miss Gaskill
Sanctuary, Shobrooke. The soil is clayey and skillet; the CARRIER.-George Wotton, to Exeter, tues. & fri. ; to ere-
subsoil, red sandstone, rock and clay. The chief crops are diton, on sat

.Arundell Rev. Wm. Hy. M. A. Rectory Lock Harry, baker Sanders Albert, tailor & draper

Harker Rev. Samuel [Congregational] Luxton Thomas, farmer, Ford Scott Gilbert, farmer, East Hayne

Thorne George Leworthy M.D MaunderGeo. shoe ma. & parish sexton Scott Richard, farmer, Holes

COMMERCIAL. May Fred, farmer, Brindiwell Shilston Joseph, farmer& steam thrash-

Arscott Thomas, farmer, West Burrow May l<'rederick, farmer, Smith Hayne ingmachineproprietor, Hedge Cleave

Arscott Frederick, farmer, Great Venn Melhuish Robt.HalfMoon P.H.&shoe ma Stone William, wheelwright

Bragg John Thomas, farmer, & regis- Pearcy Thomas, farmer, Stockaton Tapp Edwin, farmer, West Farley

trar of marriages, Higher Chilton Pearn Joseph, Ring of Bells P.H Taverner Frederick, farmer

Burrow William, farmer, Landboat Phillips William, farmer, Great.Hayne Thomas James, farmer, East Farley

Burrows Jn..Alfd. farmer,Lower Chilton Pike Mark, farmer, Saunders Thorne George Leworthy M. D. surge-:m,.

Coles Thomas, farmer,HighWaterhouse Preston William, farmer, Court place &medical officer& publicvaccinator,

Cook William~ farmer, Perry Prettyjohn Cyprian, farmer, Cotton Cheriton Fitzpaine district, Cred1ton

Dart Francis, farmer, Marhay Pridham SI. assist. overseer & landownr union

Dymond William, boot & shoe maker Prince John, farmer, Furze Thome Edwin, grocer & draper

Hooper Henry, farmer; Barnes hill Prior Daniel, shopkeeper, & post office Tucker Fredk. farmer, South Combe

Kelly Wm. Hy. farmer, Cheriton Barton Prior James, butcher & farmer Turner James, farmeT, West Upham

LangworthyGeo.frmr.BoroughCoombe Prior James, mason Webber Daniel, farmer, Redyeats

Leach Thomas, farmer, Upcott Barton Prior John, mason Webber Robt. thatcher &farmer,Morles

Lee Thomas; farmer, Pool farm Rayment Samuel, farmer, Cottafords Wotton George, carrier

CHITTLEHAM-HOLT, an ecclesiastical parish, held since 1892 by the Rev. 1\iathew Thomas Lovebond M. A.

formed July 28, r863, was originally a hamlet of Chittle- of Caius College, Cambridge. The Brethren have a chapel

hampton, but constituted a civil parish March 25, 1885, and here. Mrs. Eater is lady of the manor and chief landowner.
is 3~ miies south from Chittlehampton, in the Northern The area is 1,978 acres; rateable value, £1,745; the

division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, population in r89x was 266, engaged in agriculture.

union and county court district of South Molton, rural Parish Clerk, Thomas Snell.

deanery of South Molton, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and PosT OFFICE.-Wm. Sowden, sub-postmaster. Letters are

diocese of Exeter. The church of St. John, an edifice of received from Chulmleigh by foot post at 8.45 a.m. ; dis-

stone, built by the late Lord Rolle in r8g8, is a small build- patched at 4.10 p.m. The nearest money order office is

ing in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and at Kingsnympton & the nearest telegraph office is at South

nave, with a western turret containing one bell : there are Molton Road Railway station. Postal orders are issued

180 sittings. The register dates from the year r8g8. The here, but not paid .

living is a vicarage, net yearly value £104, with residence National School (mixed), built in t85o, for 6o children;

and 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord Rolle's trustees, and average attendance, 31 ; Miss Emily Brook, mistress

Bater Mrs. Manor house j Eater Samuel, farmer, Hawkins Lewis Jn.farmer,Lowr.Ditchaton water

Bater Thomas, Manor house Bater Thomas, farmer, Farrs Manning John, farmer, Head Barton

Green-, Whitmore Chapple William, farmer, Mollands Martin George, farmer, Drakes

Lovebond Rev. Mathew Thomas M.A. Clark J•>hn, blacksmith Martin Thomas, farmer, Blindwells

Vicarage Clark William, Exeter inn Pppe George, miller (water), Head
• 1\ioore William, High Bullen Copp Elon, shopkeeper mills, Bartow

COlllMERCIAL. Harris George, farmer, Presbury Sowden William, Post office

.Adams William, shopkeeper Heard Thomas, wheelwright Spycott George Camp, gardener

Bater Edwin, farmer, Westerground. Jackman Charles, farmer, Beers Webber Samuel, farmer, Snydles

Bater John, farmer, Butlers Jackrnan Samuel, farmer, Kinnings Westacott William, farmer, Holtgate

CHITTLEHAMPTON is a parish and village on the q8o; and to Henry Cobleigh, ob. 30 July, 1470, and .Alice,

river Taw, 2 miles north-east from Umberleigh Bridge his wife: there are also memm·ials to the Morris and

station on the North Devon branch of the London and South Saunder family: the church was restored iu 1871, at a cost of

Western railway (which is in this parish), 5 west from South over .£4,ooo, when an organ was given by Miss Trefusis, and
Molton and 8 south-east from Barnstaple, in the Northern a new lych-gate by Mrs. Short in memory of her husband,
division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, J. B. Short esq. who died at Hudscott; and has 450 sittings.

union and county court district of South Molton, rural The register of baptisms dates from the year 1575; marriages

deanery of South Molton, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and and burials, 1576, and the earliest entries are those of the
diocese of Exeter. 'fhe church of St. Heriswitha is an Saunder family. The living is a vicarage, average tithe

ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpen- rent-charge £419, net yearly value £4o6, with residence and

dicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, 41 acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of the late Lord
south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, RoUe, and held since 1890 by th~ Ven. Albert Eden Seymoul'

containing a clock and 8 bells, 6 of which, cast in 1739 were M. A. of University College, Oxford, and Archdeacon of Barn-
given by Samuel Rolle esq. of Hudscott; the remaining staple. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. 'fhere are charities of
two were added in 1879 by William E~ans, of Chepstow: £4o yearly value, derived from church lands in A!verdiscott

the north chancel aisle has a good panelled roof : the stone and one of £I yearly for the poor, arising from a gift made

pulpit, of the same period as the tower, is adorned lYith in x887 byW.H.Kelland esq.of Kelland, Lapford, as a memo-
carved figures of saints under canopies; and the east win- rial to his mother. the representative of the Saunder family.

dow is stained: in the north transept is an altar-tomb with Near the village, on the South Molton road, is an ancient
effigies, and two kneeling figures (malp and female) below, stone cross,. standing on a lofty pedestal, and near Brightley

and an inscription to John Giffard esq. of Brightley, and on the road to Warkleigh is one of larger size. Br1ghtley
Honor, his wife, and their children, erected in 1625 by John Park has been ploughed over and the remains of the mansion
Giffard, his grandson : in the north aisle of the chancel is a converted into a farm ; the walls of the ancient domestic

recumbent effigy of a lady, with inscription to Mistress chapel are still standing and a portion of the moat still

Grace Giffard, ob. r667 : there are other fine monuments to remains. The Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle D.L., l. P. of

the Rolle and Giffard families, including inscribed stones to Bicton House, the Earl Fortescue l.P., D.L. and Mrs.

Cresar Giffard esq. d. 1715; John Giffard, of Athelington, Bater, of the Manor House, Chittleham-Holt, are the chief
d. 1725, and Elizabeth, his wife ; John Giffard esq. of landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil is principally schist-
Dublin, d. 18r9, and Sir .Ambrose Giffard kt. Chief Justice ous rock. The chief crops are oats, barley and turmi)s.
of Ceylon, d. 1827: on the floor of the ch!lncel are bra'l.~e<~, The acreage is 8,720; rateable value, £6,o8r ; the popula-
with effigies and inscriptions, to John Cobleigh, Isabella, tion in r89r was r,OJ6. AMBOW and BITTACOTT are outlying

his wife, ob. I Oct. 1446, and Joan, his wife, ob. 30 Sep. hamlets. The second is the property of J. Sattrew-Willett

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110 CHITTLEB.AMP"ION. .DEVONSHIRE. l (KELLY'a

esq. of Monkleigh. East Stowford is the property of A. C. By a Local Go'\"'ernment order which came into operation

Chichester esq. West Stowford belongs to J. Skynner esq. March 25, x88..J, a detached part of this parish known as

Newton was purchased in 1668 by Arthm: Saunder esq. the Leary was amalgamated with West Buckland for civil

representative of an ancient family who had been resident purposes, but ecclesiastically it still :remains a part of

her~ from 1542 to r864: North Newton belongs, by inherit- Chittlehampton. ,

ance from her mother (a Saunder), to Miss Eleanor Kel- EAsTACOTT is a hamlet xi miles south-west.

land, of Southsea: South Newton was sold by the Saunder PoiT OFFICE.-Mrs. Ellen Dinnacombe (deputy), sub-post-

family and now belongs to the Hon. Mark G. K. Rolle, of mistress. Letters through South Molton. The mail

Bicton. Bradbnry, formerly the residence of the Saunder arrives at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 4.40 p.m, Tha neareSt

family, now belongs to Earl Fortescue, the owner of South money order office is at South Molton, & nearest telegraph

Bray. Hudscottwas formerly held by the Venners, and after office, Umberleigh railway station. Postal orders are

them by the Rolle family: Samuel RoUe gave the property issued here, but not paid

in the 18th century to Dennis Rolle esq. of Stevenstone and PosT OFFICE,Umberleigh Bridge.-Thomas Murch,sub-post-

Bicton, who founded schools in this and the parishes of Bicton master. Letters through Barnstaple arrive at 8.25 a. m. ;

and Otterton ; his son, the late Lord Rolle, was born at dispatched 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is

Hudscott: Hawkridge, to John Fleming esq. of Bigadon. at High Bickington. The telegraph office is at Umberleigh
George Sannder esq. of Warwickshire, and John Troke esq. Bridge railway stcttion. P~lstal orders are issued here,

Qf Morchard Bishop, still possess land here by inheritance, but not paid

• and represent the old Saunder family. The manor, which National School (mixed), built in x865, for 200 children;

formerly belonged to the Clares, ancestors of Lady de Bathe, average attendancE", 146; &endowed with {,10 4s, by the

is now the property of the Hon. Mark G. K. Rolle, in whose late Lord Rolle ; William Denley, master ; Miss Fanny

family it has been for 180 years. Brightley was for seven Vickery, sewing mistress

centuries the property of the Giffards of Halsbury, previous Railway Station, Umberleigh Bridge, Alfred Eyres, station

to which it was heJd by the Fitzwarren family ; it now belongs, lllaster

with the barton of Head, to the Hon. Mark G. Kerr Rolle. CARRIER TO BARNSTAPLE.-William Goldsworthy,tues.& fri

Fortescue Capt.. Hon.Arthur Grenville, Guard Geo. farmer,North Nethercleave Scoynes William, tailor

Hudscott · Hancock John, farmer, Oldridge Seage William Epphras, blacksmith &

Furse Edward, Bloden hill · Harris James, farmer, Diptford assistant overseer

SeymourVen.AlbertEden M.A.Vicarage Harris James, farmer, North Newton Shapland George, farmer, South Bray

Smoldon William, Bloden hill Harris James, jnn. nurseryman Skinner James; farmer, Bradbnry

Spicer Rev. Angel B.A. [curate] Hartnoll John Morris, farmer, Lerwell Skinner John, carpenter

COllll\IERCIAL. Haywood Elizh.{Mrs.),frmr.Caveyland Skinner William, farmer, Cleave

Balman Richard, farmer, Shilstone Howard John Rendle, carpenter & in· Skinner Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper .

Breayley Mary .Ann (Mrs.), farmer, surance agent Slape Inkerman George Southy,farmer,

Ash farm Howard Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper South Newton

Breayley William James, saddler &c Howard Richd.farmer,HigherBiakewell Smalbridge Fk.farmr. Higher Bittacott

Buckingham Jas. farmer, Furze barn Howard Stephen, farmer, Coombe Smolden Robert, farmer, Oldridge

Buckingham John, farmer, Hawkbridge Hunt & Vickery, blacksmiths Smolden Wm. carpenter, Clapworthy

Barton Huxham Wm. Hy. Great Whitestone Smolden Wm. jun.carpenter,Bray mill •

Buckingham Robert, farmer, Way Huxtable John, carpenter Snow John, farmer, Furze •

Burgess Arthur, farmer, Langaton Isaac William, road contractor Snow Tom, miller (water & steam)..

Burgess John, butcher & farmer Lewis William, baker l''ord mills

Burgess John, farmer, Moor Manaton John, thatcher, Watergate Start George, farmer, Heywood

Cheriton Henry, farmer, Bradbury Manaton William, thatcher Stone Thomas, butcher & farmer

Cole J ames, baker & grocer Manning Henry, farmer, Winson Taylor W1lliam, shopkeeper

Congram Frederick, shopkeeper Mildon l1enry, farmer, HallsweU Thompson James, excise officer

Corney George,farmer,LowerLangaton Mortimer John,farmer, BrightleyBartn Thomas James Wm. farmer, Diptford

Courtenay Richard, farmer, Eastacott Mules George, tailor Tucker Richard, jobbing gardener ·

Cracker Samuel, farmer, Eastacott Murch James, coal merchant Veysey l''rederick,cattle dealer, Bratton

(:;ruwys Thomas, shoe maker Murch Thomas, farmer, Hoe Vickery Samuel, Bell P.H

Dyer Thomas, farmer Murch 'l'homas, wheelwright, Post Wat~ Carder, mason

Dyer William, farmer, Fullabrook office, Umberleigh bridge Watts Harry Carder, brewer & maltstr

Ellicott James, farmer,Parsonage farm MurchWm.jun.blacksmith, Umberleigh Watts Mary Judith ~Miss), shopkeeper

Eyres Alfred, station master, Umber- Palmer William, clerk of works to the Watts Thomas, stone mason

leigh bridge Hon. Mark Rolle Watts William, farmer,Lower Bittacott

J<'aceyWilliam John,farmer, Gambuston Pope Geo. miller (water),Clappery mills Webber Phillip, shoe maker

Furze Edward, farmer, Boden hill Rawle David, veterinary surgeon Westacott George, tailor, Hill head

Goldworthy William, carrier Rendle John, farmer, Narracott Woolaway William, miller ~wnter),

Greenslade Thomas, farmer & cattle Sanders Edwin, carpenter Brightley mill 1

dealer, Collacott

CHIVELSTONE is a township and parish, within a owners. The Mil is principally loam; subsoil, various. The
beautiful and secluded valley, '1 miles south-east from Kings- chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,6p~

bridg-e station on a branch of the Great Western railway, in acres of land and IIo of water: rateable value, £2,704; the

the Southern di'vision of the county, hundred of Coleridge, populatioQ. in x8gr was 4~·

petty sessional division of Stanborough and Coleridge, union Ford is a hamlet, xi miles north-by.east. lle:re is a Con-

and county court district of Kingsbridge, rural deanery of gofreagbaotuiotn£alwchyaepaerll,ye.ndowed by Andrew J effery with the sum
Woodleigh, archdeaconry of Totne8 and diocese of Exeter.
The church of St. Sylvester is an ancient edifice of stone,
chiefly in the Perpendicular style, con~isting of chancel with Prawle, If miles south, is a. hamlet on the sea coast.
aisles. nave, south porch and an embattled western tower There is a ffible Christian chapel, erected in 186o. Here is a.

containing 5 bells: the chancel is a century older than the coastguard station, by which all passing ships are reported ;

nave and aisles; the pulpit, formed out of a solid block of also private telegraph station to Kingsbridge. ·

Qak, is richly carved, painted and gilded, as also is the South Allington is another hamlet, 1 mile east. Iron
8creen, a beautiful specimen of carved work : there is an o r e was found h ere in 1 Q37u3i.ck. .
ancient font and several monuments of some antiquity~ the Parish Clerk, He nry
churcb generally is in great need of repair : there are 200
:sittings. The register dates from the ytehaervt6ic8a4r.ageThofe Jiving PosT OFFICE, Chivelstone.....-Edward Clayton, sub.post-
is a chapelry, annexed, together with Sher- master. Letters from Kingsbridge by foot post received

sford, to that of Stokenham, average tithe rent-charge £529, at ().25 a. m.; dispp.tched at 3·56 p.m. The nearest money
order & telegrapll office is at li'rogmore. Postal ordersaDe
joint net yearly value £ 1 2, including 3 acres of glebe, in
issued, here, but not paid
the gift of the Crown, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Con-

l"ad William Curling Finzel M.A. of Oxford University. John A School Board of 5 members was formed Oct. 30, 1874; J.

Evoury Norman esq. is lord of the manor. South Allington Harris Square, Kingsbridge, clerk to the board

House is the residence of Major Thomas Harris Pitts J.P. Board School tmixed), built in 1878, for Joo children;

who llith J. E. Norman esq. and the Rev. Marcus Dimond- average attendance, 40; Miss Elizabeth Cawsey, mistress

Churchward M.A, vicar pf Northam, are the principal land- Coast Guard Station, Prawle, William Howett, chief officer

Chivelstone. Parker Joseph, shopkeeper Weymouth John Kerswell, farmer,
Pile Rob~rt, farmer, Lowpr J~nrrow
('oi Rev. Edward Hayter B.A. [curate} Chivelstone Barton ..
Moore EdwarJ, ,Seven Stars P.H SnowdenSarah(Mi~s\tarmr,'.Voodcmbe
Ford.
• Tucker Njcholas, rna.sou
Creber Samuel, carpente~

DIRECTORY.] • DEVONSHIRE. CHt:DLEIGB. J 11

Pa1k Mary (Mrs.), farmer Ford J.ames, farmer South Allington.
Prettejohn Nathaniel, farmer
Saunders Charles, miller {water) Foss Thomal! & Harry, farmers Pitts Major Thomas Harris .J.P. South
Yabsley Edward, boot maker Allington house
Harradon Edwin & Thos. blacksmiths
. Prawle. Barrons Ivy, farmer .
Hutchings Richard, farmer - Cumming Richard, farmer
Adams Peter, Union inn Foss William, jun, farmer
Adams Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Putt Sampson, Providence inn Tucker John, farmer
Creber Thomas, carpenter Tucker William, mason
Elliott John, farmer, The Moor Putt William, carpenter

Sture Henry, jun. farmer

Sture Henry Samuel, farmer

Tucker William, farmer

Yalland Victoria (Mrs.), farmer

CHRISTOW is a. parish and village on the river Teign, Magdalen College, Oxford. Here are Baptist and Wesleyan

IJ miles south-east from Ashton station on the Teign Valley chapels. Charities producing £4 6s. 8d. are distributed in

branch of the Great Western railway, 7 miles east-by-south bread. The Tottiford and Kennick reservoir of the Torquay

from Moreton Hampstead and 8 east from Exeter, m the water works, situated mostly in this parish, on the Moreton

North Eastern division of the <!ounty, Wonford hundred and road, is a fine sheet of water, comprising altogether nearly
petty sessional division, St~ Thomas union, Exeter county 74 acres, and is a great resort of anglers. The Whe1l Frank
court district, rural deanery of Kenn and archdeaconry and Mills and Wheal Exmouth silver and lead mines here have

diocese of Exeter. There 1s a goods station on the Teign not been worked for soma time. Canonteign House, the
Valley branch of the Great Western railway, near Teign seat of Viscount Exmouth J.P. is a fine mansion, shnding

House inn, in this parish, about I mile from the village. on an eminence in park-like grounds, and affords extensive

The church of St. James is an ancient building of granite views of the surrounding country. The principal land-
in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south owners are Viscount Exmouth, who is lord of the manor,
porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, con- W. Miles esq. and Mr. William Addems. The soil is loam;
taining a clock and 6 bells: in the church is a monument to subsoil, granite. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats

Edward, first Viscount Exmouth G.c.n. captor of Algiers in and potatoes. The area is 3,182A. 2R. 28P. ; rateable value,

1816, d. Jan. 23, r833, and there are memorials to other £3,723: the population in 1891 was 567.
members of the Pellew family; the flag borne by Lord Ex- Sexton, William Yates.

mouth's ship at the battle of Algiers is also preserved here: POPT 0FFICE.-George Amery, sub-postmaster.. Letters

there is a memorial window to the Woollcombe family, and received from Exeter, via Dunsford, at 8 a.m.; dispatched
<me to the Hon. and Rev. Edward Pellew, a former vicar,
Al. Aug. 29• l86g, and Mary .Ann (Winthrop) his wife: at aoftfi5cepi.sma.t; sundays at 11 a.m. Thenearest ml)neyorder
the entranee of the porch is a stone to Nathaniel Busell, 46 Dunsford &; telegraph office is at Chudleigh.
years "c1ark heere, dyed rgth February, I63r," of whom
tradition reports that he was killed in defending the church Postal orders are issued here, but not paid .

WALL LETTER Box, Uppertown, cleared at 5· IS p.m

against Cromwell: the organ was presented in I887, in WALL LETTER Box, Kennick Reservoir, cleared at 11.20
memory of the Rev. J. T. Hassall, late vicar, by his son and a.m.; week days only
daughter: a handsome corona was placed in the chancel in
the same year by Lord Exmouth: there are 300 sittings. In A School Board of 7 members was formed Feb. Ig, r875, for
the churchyard are four very fine yew trees. The register the united district of Christow & Doddiscombleigh ;
Thomas Coleridge, Doddiscombleigh, clerk to the board ;

dates from the year 1554. The living is a vicarage, average George Percy, attendance officer ·

tithe rent-charge £r29, net yearly value £180, with I acre Board School (mixed), ereeted in 188o, for IIO children;

of glebe and residence, in the gift of Viscount Exmouth, and average attendance, 93 ; Mrs. Elizh. Gilbert White, mist

held since 1892 by the Rev. Courtenay John Bulteel n.A. of CARRIER TO ExETER.-William Davis, tues. & fri

Exmouth Viscount D.L.,J.P. Canonteign Brooks John, shopkeeper Langdon Bros. farmers, Waterwell
house; & Carlton club; London s w Cottrill Jas. farmer, Canonteign Barton Northcott John, butcher & miller

Addems John, Rod cottage Davis William, carrier, Wells · {water), Christow mills ·

.Addems Nicholas, Pitt Derges William, shopkeeper Northcott Richard, farmer,New Hyner

Bulteel Rev.Courtenay Jn.n A.Vicarage Edwards James, farmer, New house Palmer John, boot & shoe maker

Cha:ffe John, Barne house Edwards John, farmer, Southwood Penhale Brothers, bakers

Harrison John, Hill side . Edwards William, farmer, Court farm Prowse Charles, stone mason

Pin well Miss, Cheap house England John, farmer, ~mithay Prowse John, Artichoke inn

COMMERCIAL. Gidley Elizabeth (Mrs.),Palk Arlns P.li Rolstone Mary Ann (Mrs.), laundry

Addems Nicholas, farmer, Hill Hamlyn James, farmer, Lower Bennah Sprague James, farmer,Lower Kennick

Addems Nicho1as, farmer, Coombe Hamlyn James, jun. butcher Townsend Robert, blacksmith

Addems William; farmer, Clampitt Hamlyn John Williams, farmer, regis- Tuckett William, farmer, Moor Barton

Amery George, shopkeeper trar of births & deaths for Christow Wills George, farmer, Aller

Archer William, farmer, Sea hill sub-district, St. Thomas union, & Winsor William, farmer, Higher Merdon

Archer George, farmer, Pale assistant overseer, Upper Bennah WrayfordAlfd.Jas.frmr.Highr.Kennick

Baker Robert, Teign House inn .

l

CHUDI.EIGH is a parish, pleasantly situated on the screen separating the chancel from the nave, restored about

high road between Exeter and Plymouth, with a station I 1853 by the Rev. W. H. Palk M.A, late vicar, is divided into

mile south-west from the town on the Teign Valley branch twenty comparl;ments, each containing two panels, on one of

of the Great Western railway, 10 miles south-by-west from which is an Apostle and the other a Prophet: the church

Exeter, 6 north-east from Newton Abbot, 7 west-by-north was thoroughly repaired in I848 g, at a cost of about £2,000,

from Dawlisb, _!!·north-west from Teignmouth, 14 north-west and has 6oo sittings. The register dates from the year IS58.

from Torquay and 221 from London, in the Mid division of The living is a vicarage, averag~ tithe rent-charge £418, net

the county, Exminster hundred, Teignbridge petty sessional yearly income £420, with residence and I acre of glebe, in

rdivision, Newton Abbot union, Newton Abbot and Torquay the gift of and held since 1885 by the Rev. Charles Thomas

county court district.,rural deanery of Moreton,archdeaconry Ward M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. The Congregational
of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The town is supplied with chapel~ founded in IJIO, and endowed with £20 yearly by

water from works constructed under the di1 ection of E. Mr. Causely, of Ranscombe, was rebuilt in 183o, and will

Appleton esq. C. E. and is lighted with gas by a company. seat ISO persons: there is an attached school room, and a

'The church of St. Martin, consecrated by Bishop Brones- small burial ground, now closed. The Wesleyan chapel,

combe, 6th November, I259, is a building of stone and built in 1837; seats 72 people, but is now (r893) closed.

granite, chiefly in the l'erpendicular style, consisting of The Baptist chapel, built in 1850 by W. Rouse esq. l::as

chance], nave, south aisle, separated from the nave by an 8i1tings for 200 persons, and an attached burial ground. A

.arcade of six arches1 north transept or Hunt's aisle, and a Ctlmetery was formed in I876, at a cost of £I,200, and is
massive embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 under the control of a Burial Board of nine members. The

bells, all recast with additional metal in IJ8r from a previous charities include 52s. a year left by Sir John Ackland; 30s.

-peal of 5 : the base of the tower is of very early date, pos~ihly yearly by Thomas Clarke, in 1706 ; IOS. by William Stowell,

Saxon, and there is a. Transitional font: the stained east in 1735; sos. yearly by Stephen Bloy, in 1673 ~ £5 yeuly
window is a memorial to a former vicar, and was presented by Richard Eastchurch. in I692: £Ioo left by William

by John Williams esq. at a cost of nearly £200; there are Stidson, in I8I8; [.xoo by John Wilcocks: and i,r,ooa left

also memorial windows to Lady Dunn, placed by her by John Williams in 1869 : all these are now amalgamated

husband, Admiral Sir David Dunn K.C.H. formerly of Rock- into one common trust fund and produce about £So yearly,

lands, a.nd to three other persons: on the north side of the the greater part of which is distributed in various ch'lrities.

chancel is a monument with kneeling effigies and shields of The Vestry Hall in the Market place, erected in I865, will

arms, inscribed to Sir fiers Courtenay kt. ob. May 20, I522, hold 300 persons. In 1887 a society of Bridgettine Nuns

and Elizabeth (Shilston),his wife, ob. Nov. 8, 1605; there are was established here on a site presented to them about a

other memorials to the Courtenay and Clifford families : the . quarter of a mila from the town, and a convent, with chapel,

112 CBUDLEIGH. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY's

called St. Bridget's Abbey of Syon, erected for their resi- landowners. Whiteway, a modern mansion of red brick,
dence' this community was first established by King Henry situated about ~~ miles north-east of Chudleigh, is the

V. in the year 1415, atisleworlh, Middlesex: at the dissolu- residence of the Dowager Countess of Morley. The soil is

tion of the monasteries in 1539 the monastery of Syon was heavy clay, loam, lime rock and s·.1.nd. The chief crops are
suppressed and the commumty took refuge in I<'landers, but wheat, barley and oats. The area is 6,037 acres; rateable
after an absence of 300 years, returned to England in x86x, value, £g,88o; the population in x8gr was 2,003.
and settled at Spettisbury, in Dorsetshire, wb.ere they re- HARCOMBE, Ii miles north, KERSWELL, I mile north, and

mained until their removal to their present abode. Chud- WADDON, I mile east, are hamlets.

leigh Rock, with its glen, watel"fall and deep cavern, is one of Sexton, J ames Adams.

the most attractive sights in the district. Osbert, Bishop of PoST, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office

Exeter (1074-II07). is said to have erected a palace here in (Railway Sub-office. Letters should have R.S.O. South
xo8o, with a chapel attached, some remains of which still Devon added). Charles Collings,sub-postmaster. Letters

exist near the rock. In 1282 the manor of Chudleigh was arrive, via Newton Abbot, at 5·45 a.m.; 12.45 & 6.45 p.m.;
annexed by Bishop Quivil to the precentorship of Exeter dispatched, 1.40 & 7· xo p.m
cathedral, and in the register book of Bishop Stapleton it is PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS : -
stated that in the year 1308 the rental of the manor was Cemetery, William Bayly, clerk to the burial board
[.17 4s. 5fd. About this time the woollen trade was carried County ~olice Station, John Cleland Moore, superinten-
on extensively, and the fulling mill paid 2os. yearly to the dent & x constable
see of Exeter. In 1547 Bishop Vesey granted the manor, I<'ire Brigade, Robert Collings, captain

town, palace and limekiln to Edward (Seymour), Duke of Ve.stry Hall, Market place

Somerset, on a lease for 99 years, but the duke's name does PUBLIC OFFICERS : -

not again appear in connection with the property, which was Assistant Overseer, William Blackmore

soon afterwards alienated to Sir Peter Cuurtenay, whose Inland Revenue Officer, Samuel Bennetts
daughter and co-heiress brought it to Anthony Clifford, of Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Chudleigh district,
King·s Teignton: the manor was afterwards purchased by Newton Abbot union, Frederick C. W. Hounsell B.A.,

Hugh, Lord Clifford, in whose family it still remains. The M.R.C.s.Eng. The Fernery, Chudleigh
woollen trade appears to have been carried on with consider- Registrar of Marria~re3, Chudleigh sub-district, Newton

able activity during the reign of James I. and down to the Abbot union, George Searle

end of the reign of George II. I<'airfax lodged in the town ScaooLs:-
during the Civil War, and Hams Barton is believed to have Pynsent's Free Grammar, founded by Mr. John Pynsent, a

been occupied by Colonel Wise. The inhabitants observed a native of Chudleigh, in the reign of Charles II. A.D. 1668,

strict neutrality, receiving either puty in turn. William, & endowed with £3o a year for ever, to be paid out of the
Prince of Orange, afterwards William III. slept in Chudleigh estate of Cornbe, near Croydon, is a free school for the

on the second night after his landing at Torbay, Nov. 6, x688, sons of all the inhabitants _of the parish free of cost ; the

and harangued the inhabitants from a window in broken master must be a member of the Church of England: it

English, "if not to their edification," says a local writer, was reconstituted under the Endowed Schools Act & has
"at least to their satisfaction, for he was universally hailed now three attached scholarships open to pupils of elemen-

as a deliverer." On the 22nd May, x8o7, a fire broke out in tal'y schools in the parish & equal in value to the school

a bakehouse in Mill Lane, and resulted in the destruction of fees; William Crofton Green M. A. head master

two-thirds of the town. Ugbrooke, the seat of Lord Clifford National (mixed), erected with master's house in 18s8,
of Chudleigh D.L., J.P. is about a mile from the town: the for 248 children; average attendance, 131 ; John George
mansion is a large quadrangular building, with two fronts, Mabey, master
four towers and a Catholic chapel, dedicated to St. Cyprian: Infants', built in r86o, for 85 children; average attendance,
the park is undulating and well wooded, and on one of its 76 ; Miss Matilda Ball, mistress
hill tops, which affords many fine views of the neighbour- British (mixed), established by Mrs. Rouse, in x845, for
hood, are the remain~ of an encampment ; a grove of noble 160 children; average attendance, 150; William Edward
beech trees, known as "Dryden's Grove," is pointed out as Bayly, master
being the favourite resort of the poet, who was a frequent Railway Station, Chudleigh road, James Box

visitor at Ugbrooke : the park of 6oo acres is well stocked CARRIERS TO:-
with deer. Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, who is lord of the NEWTON ABBOT-William Gill, wed

manor, and the Dowager Countess of Morley are the chief EXET.ER-William Gill, tues & fri

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Oldham Mrs. Oakfield Blackmore William, assistant overseer

Clifford of Chudleigh Lord D.L., J.P. Pittman Mrs. I The Parade Bond Waiter, tailor

Ugbrooke; & Brooks' club,London sw Reekie Rev. Thos. [Catholic],Ugbrooke Buttress Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Atkins George C. Tbe Lawn Riddell Major-Gen. Charles James Buttress .John, coach & carriage

Bagnall Miss, Fairlea Buchanan c.B. late R.A. Oaklands builder, wheelwright & smith,

Baillie Evan, Filleigh Roleston Mrs. Fore street Coburg. See advert

Barter Robert ' Rose Richard, The Laurels Buttress Mary (Mrs.), ironmonger
Beaumont Mrs. Fairfield Scott Mrs Buttress Sarah Jane (Miss), milliner

Bennett Miss, Coburg cottage Shave John, Bridgeland Candish Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Browne William John Smith Edward, Heathfield cottage Candy & eo. Limited (J. M. Lim-

Chichester Miss, Lawell house StookeMiss pus, manager), Great Western pot-

Clack J ames, Gordon lodge Stovell Rev. Chas. [Baptist], Uplands teries & brick works. See Bovey

Collings Miss, Fore street Tanner Arthur, The Laurels Tracey & see advert ·

Cunningham Chs.Lennox,Downford ho Tanner Marcus, Sydney house Cann John, shopkeeper

Dawson Mrs. Scotleigh Tanner Miss, Sydney house Carpenter Rt. Bracknay, The Globe P.R

Ellicombe Misses, Hocklands TannerMrs CartwrightHannah &Elizabeth(Misses),

Ellis Mrs. The Elms Thrupp Charles, I The Parade Clifford Arms hotel

Green William Crofton M.A. (head Waithman Joseph, Hurstview Causey Henry, farm bailiff to Lord
master of Grammar school) •
Walcott Col. Edmund Scopoli c.B.t J.P. Clifford of Chudleigh, Ughrooke

Gregory Mrs. Culver cottage (commanding 4th Vol. Batt. Devon Cemetery (William Bayly, clerk to the

Hare Misses, Scotleigh regiment), Rock house burial board)

Heys Miss (Lady Abbess), St. Bridget's Ward Rev.Charles Thomas H.A.[vicar], Chicken Thomas, Ship P. R

abbey The Vicarage · ChudleighFireBrigade(Rt. Collings,cpt)

Hill Misses Whitewav•• Mrs. Elmore Chudleigh Gas Co. Limited (H. A.
Crook, see.; John Poake, manager)
Hounsell Frederick Claude Wright B. A. Wotton Waiter, Brunswick house

The Fernery Wright Mrs. Coburg ' Cleave Elizabeth (Miss), ironmonger

Johns Rev. Wm. R. [Congregational] Wright Mrs. William, Fairfield Cleave Joseph, farmer, Ruggadon

Langley Francis Edmund, Coburg Yarde Rev. Thomas John B.A.Cnleer ho Cleave Waiter, chemist & druggist

Langley Miss Yarde Mrs. Culver house Cocking Stephen, saddler

Langley Mrs. The Retreat COMl\IERCIAL. Collings Charles, stationer, Post office

Lock Major-General Henry, Littlehill Adams Thomas, plumber Collings Chas. Jn. artist, 2 The Parade

Lord Frederick Bayley, Kerswell rock Austin Albert, baker Collings Robert, builder & house agent

Loveys Albert Edward, Alma house Babidge Edmund, shoe maker Compodonico John, shoe maker

Marriott Rev. Herbert M. A. [late chap- Babidge Samuel, mason Compodonico Joseph, shoe maker

lain at Beyrout], Giddea house Baillie Evan,farmer &landownr.I<'illeigh Cornish Charles, butcher

Miller Edward, I!ex house Baker Thomas, carpenter Cornish Cha.s. farmer, Chudleigh wood

Mogridge Miss, Bellevne Ball Thomas, mason Cornish George, farmer, Burrows

Morley Dowager Countess of, Whiteway Bennetts Samuel, inland revenue officer Cornish John, White Hart P.R

Moyle John Baron D.C.L, Heightley Bennett Sarah (Miss), apartments Cornish Thomas William, tailor

1\:loyle Mrs. Heightley Bevan Mary Tuckett (Mrs.), milliner Cox Joseph, farmer, Northwood