308 HOLBETON. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S
were anciently appropriated to thB priory of Polshoe. MEJ\IBLA...,D, 4 south-west; and MOTHECOMBE, 2 Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. There is a coast south-east, on Bigbury Bay, are hamlets in the parish. guard station at Mothecombe. Flete, the situation of Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel which is most romantic, and commands fine views of the Post, S. B. & Annuity &:. Insurance Oflice.-Horabo river Erme and its estuary, is now the seat of Henry Coleman, sub-postmaster. Letters received from Ivy Bingham Mildmay esq. D.L., J.P. by whom the present bridge by carrier, on foot, at 7 ·5.1 a. m. woek days; handsome mansion was erected in place of the former 7-55 a.m. sundays; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. ; sundays, house, now removed: the grounds and gardens are beau 9 a.m. Parcel Post delivery at 7·55 a.m. ; dispatched tifully laid out. The F1ete estate was held by the Damerell ut .).I.) p.m family from the C
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ooleman Horativ,shoo ma.PoSI!i office l 1 illage Edwin, farm bailiff to John S. (Marked thus * letters should be Evens Thomas, George inn, & shop- Ford esq. Higher Luson addressed Newton J<'errers, Plymouth.) keeper, coal merchant & farmer *Pitts, Son & Ring, maltsters, Bridge Allin Rev Al£red Thomas Vicarage i Evens l\lichael, frmr. Ramsland farm end; office, Plymouth Dulte€1 Mrs. Pamfiete ' Evens Thomas, manure agent Roberts Susan (Mrs.), baker &:. btehr Gray William Creswell, Membland Fr~ale J~lhn, farmer, Ke~swell . Roger" AndTew, ca,rpenter Maynard John, Luson villa 'G1ll1 RlChard, bla
CO:ll:llERCIAL. I Lister William, farmer, .K. Battisbon 1 Newton FerrerSi
Atwill Snmuel, Union inn, & carpenter 1 LuscombE} 'Villiarn,fa.rmer,Creacombe Vealc James, blacksmith *Baker George, head gardener to Wm. I *~Ieathrel Jspb.W.frmr.Caulstone frm *Wakeham Amy (Mrs.), fa.rmer, Creswell Gray, Membland ! Miller .Tames, farmer, Borough Lamb side & PoDle farms 'Barratt Rich.m-d H. frmr. Alston farm Miller Francis, farmer, Cottage farm Wills Edward, chief Dfficer in charge ·"Cawse Robert, shoe maker Miller Thomas, farmer, Scobbi.scombe Coast Guard station, ~Iothecombe "Cawse Robert, shopkeeper Paige Elizabeth J. (~Irs.), shopkeeper *Will"th Henry, oowkeeper, Poole •Chadder Edward 'Vm. butcher & frmr, Paige Thos. E. f'rmr. Sth.Battisbol"o' ·wrath John Adams, fa.rmer, Coombii Chadder John, farmer, Haye farm Pea.rse Ja.rnes & Son, carriers *'Vyatt Fras.miller (water),Poole mill ·'Chadder William, farmer, Whitemore _Pearse George, farmer, Minchen hay "Wyatt 'Villiam, hawker, Ford ·HOLCOMBE BURNELL is a parish and village House, the residence of Edward By-ram esq. D.L. is .. on the main road from Exeter to Moreton Hampstead, 3! delightfully seated in a valley and approached by a carriage ·miles west from Exeter, in the North Eastern division of drive: the house, erected in 1836, is m the Elizabethan - the county, Wonford hundred and petty sessional division, style, and is built with stone from the Pocombe quarries, St. Thomas union, county court district of Exeter, rural with facings of Beer stone; it contains an oak-panelled deanery of Kenn and arcbdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. room, some fine specimens of old oak and other furniture, 'fhe church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone and a good collection of old china. The Pitman trustet's, in the Norman and Later styles, consisting- of chancel, who are lords of the manor, a.nd E. Byrom esq. are th!l nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled weste-rn principal landowners. The soil is clayey; the subsoil, tower containin,g- 4 bells: the first, cast by Thomas schistous. The chief crops are oats and root crops. The Pennington in 1636, has a Tudor frieze all round abovw: area is 1,853 acres; rateable value, £r, r.:ss; thP- popula ths t"'o next bear legend~ in old English characters; the tion in Igor was 107. tenor was cast by John Penning-ton in 16~4: the church Sexton, Samuel Goss. was rebuilt (excepting the tower) i11 1844, at a cost of Post Office, Longdown.-Mrs. Jane 1\Iorrish, sub- Hbout £6oo, and has 200 sittings: the churchyard is postmistress. Letters arrive from Exeter, by mail, at ,approached through an inclosure planted with trees. '!'be 5.15 a.m.; dispatched at 8.19 p.m. Postal orders are regis,ter of baptisms and burials dates from the year r657; issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order -mi rriages, I663. The living is a vicarage, with rectorial office is at St. Thomas, Exeter, & telegraph office at rights, net yearly income £70, including IIS acres of Dunsford, 3 miles distant glebE', with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, National School (mixed), for 6o children; average at- and hPld since r88o by the Rev. Sackville George Cress- tendance, 26; Miss Kathleen Prouse, mistress well: the Vicarage House, placed in a. very elevated posi- Carriers pass through, to & from Exeter, tues. fri. & ac- tion, commands a beautiful and extensive view. Culver casionally on other days
HOLCOMBE BURNELL. Holding George, farm bailiff to F..dwd. LOXGDOWN. Byrom e~q. Matteridge Byrom Edward D.L. Culver house Lee William, farmer, Bickton Down Baker William, blacksmith & farmer (;resswell Rev. Sackville Geo. Vicarage :May Francis, farmer, Downhouse Gove .Tames, carpenter • COMMERCIAL. Pearse George, farmer, Kingsford fm Hookway William, farmer Brimecombe William, farmer, Rug bo Sercombe William, farmer, Nogsland Lamacroft Henrv,• shoe maker Brinncombe John, farmffi' Bilston Taylor William, farmer, Higher pitt Milford George, Lamb inn -<:banning Sophia (Mrs.), farmer, Hol Wedlake James, farm bailiff to Ather- Milford George, jun. tailor combe Barton ton Byrom esq. Hill farm Pengelly Richard, mason ·Colla.rd Francis. fa.rmer, Ford farm Wills Emma (Mrs.), baker HOLCOMBE ROGUS is a pariSh and village on the Bampton hundred, Cullompton petty sessional division, 'borders of Somerset, 2 miles north-west-by-north from '\Yellington union and county court district, rural deanery Burlescombe station on the Bristol and Exeter section of of East Tiverton and archdeacunry and diocese of Exeter. the Great Western railway, 8~ miles north-east-by-east This place derives its suffix from Rogo, a Norman, who fmm Tiverton and 6 west-south-west from Wellington hekl it under Baldwin, the sheriff. The churoh of All (Somerset), in the North Eastern division of the county, Saints is a building of stone. in the Early Perpendicular