' DIRECTORY I] DEVONSHIRE. CBERITON BISHOP. 131

~e John, farmer, Pouncers Slade Wm. James, farmer, Week mill Turner JamBB, miller, Stone mill :&eed Henry,_ farmer & landowner, Snell Lottie (Mrs.), baker, Post off Ware William, Portsmouth hotel Toatworthy & Smithington SneU Thomas, boot & shoe maker Way George, farmer, But close Jilippin George, farmer, Eaft hill Snell Willia.m, 1armer, Duckham Webber Edwin, farmer, Moortowu Saunders .Anthony John, farmer, Snell William John, clerk to the Webber John Wm. farmer, Burridg~ Tonyfield Parish Council & assistant overseer (letters through Morchard Bishop} Saunders Isaac, farmer & landowner, & collector of income & land tax Western William, farmer & land.- Nuhon Tucker William, farmer, Leaches owner, ;;outhcott Skinner Lewis, farmer, Fiddlecot Tucker William, farmer, West hill Wright Henry, gamekeeper CHELDON is a village and parish, intersected on the Dublin, \Who is also recto~ of and resides at Cha.wleigh south by the Little Dart river, 4 miles north-east from The charities include £Ioo Government stock, left by Eggesford station on the ,North Devon branch of the Herman Storme May in 1876, the interest of which.. London and South Western railway, 4 east-by-south £2 14s. is distributed yearly in the parish. Joseph from Chulmleigh, in the South Molton division of the Tucker esq. is the chief landowne.r. The soil is loam; eouQty, Witheridge hundred, South Molton petty ses- the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley­ siona.l division, union and county court district, rurdl and oat.s. The area is I,III acres of land and 5 or ' 4eanery of Chulmleigh, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and water; rateable value, £ ; the population in 19a diocese of. Exeter. The church ·of St. Mary is a small was 53· building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting Parish Clerk, Charles Steer. of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western Letters by foot post through Chulmleigh, which is the-­ ~wer containing 4 bells: it was restored in 1873 by i..he nearest money order & telegraph office,4 mile!! distan~ sth Earl of Portsmouth, at a. cost of fsoo, and has 40 Wall Letter Box sittings. The register dates from the year 1708. The tiring is a rectory, net yearly value [95, including 35 This place is included in tlul United School Distric\ ot acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of "uhe Chawleigh & Cheldon Countess of Portsmouth, and held since 1915 -by the The children of this place attend the school at Chaw- . Bev. William Jocelyn Bradford M.A. of Trinity'(Jollege, leigh Spratt Miss, Cheldon rectory IPhilp William, farmer, Winswood ) Webber John, fanner, :£a.st Cheldon Ford William, farmet, Mounticombe Tucker William, farmer, Barton CHELSTON, see Torquay.

CHERITON BISHOP is a. pari•h and village in a 1 Yates. Ea.ston, held for generations by the Bragg" pleasant dale, traveTSeli by the high road from Exeter to family, is now the property of George Ponsford esq. 'Plymouth, and is 4 miles south from Yeoford· junction and Upper Mounson belongs to CoL H. H. Tabb. Th& station on the main line of the London and South Western principal seat here is Medland Mano:r, the property and railway, 10 west from Exeter and 7 south-west from residence of John William Jenkins esq. 'l'he chief Crediton, in the South Molton division of the county, landowners are Messrs. W. Haydon, Arthur Lamberli 1 Wonford hundred, Moreton H~psteal\l petty sessional Gorwyn, W. Ponsford, William Strong, Willia.m Farley. division, Cretliton union and county court district, rural Col. H. H. Tabb, Mrs. Stuart Walker and Mr. Batting. dea.nery of Kenn and archdeaeonry and diocese of Exeter. The ~oil is clayey; the subsoil is wet, yellow clay; th& The church of St. Mary is an aneient building of stone, land has been improved by draining. The chief crop& in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting are wheat and apples. The area is 4,940 acres; rat.e­ of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a fine able value, £3,379; the p~nlation in 19II was 45:r. embattled western tower containing 6 bells, all dated k I7Jo, except the fourth, which was cast in I803; the P9st- & T. Office-... Joseph Tancoc ' sub-postmaster- bells were rehung in I9I3: the church retains a Celtic Letters from Exet~r. Drewsteignton, .3! miles dia- font of the nth century, and there are several stained tant, is the nearest money order office windows and mural tablets to the Rev. Henry Fothergill CHERITON CROSS is a hamlet on the ro'!id betweea ll.A. 45 years rector of the parish, d. 1792, and John Exeter and Okehamptou, about half a mile south of Davy esq. ob. Itl95, and hill two wives: there are the church. There is a small Wesleyan chapel here.. :remnants of an anci~nt pre-Reformation screen with with 100 sittings. painted panels: the south wall and' porch were rebuilt Wall LetMr Boxel! ...... _!., :'iton Oross & Pitton Oross in 1884 by the late ~dward Hyde Pennell esq. and the nave new roofed in 1896, and the west end has since CROOKERNWELL is a. small village, about SI roil~­ been res~ated: there are 250 sittings. The register south-west, and likewise on the main road, partly in dates from- the year 1538. The living is a rectory, net Cheriton Bishop parish and partly in the parish of yearly income [435, inclpdin~r 56 :oores of glebe, with Drewsteignton. There is a mission chapel here, built in residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and held x88o 'by the late Edward Pennell esq. ; it consists of 11ince 1912 by t.he Rev. William Etienne Clarke Phelps chancel, nave and a small vestry, and has So sittioga. B.A. of Trinjty College, Dublin. There is a small Plymouth Brethren chapel, seating roo persons. The Post Office, Crockernwell.-Frank Arno]d, sub-po$\- ~harities amount ro about £15 yearly value, and are master. Letters from Exeter. The nearest- money invested in the names of feoffees. A pleasure fair is order & telegraph office is at Drewsteignton, 2 miles annually held on Wednesday in Whitsun week. The distant manor, now dismembered, anciently belonged to the Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 188o, at a Bishops of Exeter, who had considerable landed pro­ cost of £sao, for 100 children; George Jame. perty here. The manor of Medland, which once Sanders, master; Mrs. Clara Lake, assistant mistress belonged to Tewkesbury Abbey, is now held by Jolm Carrier from Cheriton to Exeter, fri Ernest Mudg&/ William .Jenkins esq. Coxland belongs to Mr. A. L. Carriers from DrewsteigntQn, Zeal, South Tawton &. Gorwyn; Horselake, to Mr. J. F. Northcott. Pitton, other places pass through to Exeter on fri. returning­ li.Jl and North Bowden, togethet- 393 acres in extent, &Te partly in this parish and partly in Crediton, and the same day were purchased in 18]6 of the Pennells by Mr. William Motor 'btts, toes. fri . .& sat. to & from Exeter & Cltag- ' Cheriton Morris, but are now the property of Miss ford, passes through · { CHERITON BISHOP. *Blanehford William & Hy. farmers, *Haydon Jn.frmr.& landowner,Higher Ji!wan James B. Venbridge house Lower Eggbeer (letters received Eg~beer, Middle Eggbeer & Jervia .}[assall Lieut.-Col. Owen, Woodleigh * through D~~sford) Haydon John, jun. farmer, Hole Jenkins Jn. Wm. J.P. Medland manor Boun.dey WI_lh.am, farmer, West Beer *Haydon William, farmer & land"- Le!ich William, Church cottage *Burndge W1lham, farmer, 'Ihorne owner, :{I' order farm Nontgomery Col. Hugh F. Lyons C.B. Butt John, thatcher Hoskins John, farmer The Cottage *Com-tier Simon, f~rmer, ~aston *Leaworthy George, farmer, Tillertou Phelps Rev. William Etienne Cl!irke Davy Sa~l.blacksmi~h,fhtmton Cross Michelmore Robt. frmr. Orchard Lake. , B.A. (rector), The Rectory i ;arley Ehzabeth (M1ss., cowkeeper Norrish James & William~ farmel'll. Shears Miss, Sunny vale Gorwyn Arthur I.ambert, farmer & Pitton & Wilson farms landowner, Coxland Northco-tt John Frost,farmer & land­ COMMERCIAL. *Guscott Charles, fa••mer, Monnson owner, Horselake Marked thus * farm r5o acres or over. *Guscbtt Ernest, butcher-, Cheriton Pitts John (Mrs.),. farmer., Honeyforcl Amos Melford, farmer, Haylake Cross Pook William Henry, carpenter • DEVON a•