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50 BEAFQRD. DEVONSHIRE. [ KELLY'S livmg is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £244. with 60 acres of UPCOTT, a farm in the east of the parish, the propertyand glebe and residence, in the gift of the Rev. Cbarles Wood in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Webber SneIl, had R.A. rector of Clapton, Bristol, and held since I877 by the anciently an attached chapel, of which however there are Rev. Henry James Marshall M.A. of St. Jobn's Collegt1, now no traces. Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel, with Sunday school WOODHOUSE, together with GREAT and LITTLE WARHAlIf, attached, and a Bible Christian chapel. An endowment of form a farm on the west side of the parish, belonging to the Cooksworthy, value £20 yearly, left by the Lady Havisia de Rev. C. W. Furse M.A. and are in the occupation of Mr. John Redverstoaclerkhereforever,hassincebeenenjoyed by the Brown. The owner of the manor at one time resided in parish clerks of this place. The Rev. Charles Wellington Woodhouse, though there' never was any manorial house Furse M.A. canon of Westminster, and the Right Hon. Sir belonging to it: this property, at some points overlooking Thomas Dyke Acland bart. p.o., D.L., J.P. of Killerton, the river Torridge, affords numerous fine prospects. are landowners. The rest of the laud is held b} various small owners; the land is all freehold. The soil is loamy; KIVERLEIGH is a hamlet one mile north. the subsoil is a schistus rock, with occasional upperstratum POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE, S. B. & Annuity &Insurance of clay. The crops are chiefly wheat and barley, with a Office (Letters should have R.S.O. added).-Thos. little oats. The acreage is 3,2°3; rateable value, £2,208; Westcc/tt, postmaster. Letters received at 6.20 a.m. : the population in 1881 was 590. dispatched at 6.52 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at WOOLLElGH BARTON is a manor, 2 miles from the village, Torrington in the extreme north part of the parish, belonging to Sir T. D. Acland bart. and containing between 300 and 400 acres: A School Board of 5 members was formed March 30th, 1882 ; there are some remains here of an ancient chapel in tha W. Heard, clerk to the board Early English style: the property, now in the occupation of Board School (mixed), erected with master's house in 1870, Mr. William Leverton, is pleasingly diversified with river on a site presented by .J\'Jiss Aruold. for 133 children ~ and woodland scenery. average attendance, 82; Adolphus H. Rousham, master Hautenville Geophry Friend Frederick, farmer Saunders Thomas, farmer, Canns Marshall Rev. Hy. James M.A. Rectory Heard (William) & Petherick (Hobert), Shearm Thos. farmer, South Harepath Oliver John, Trevilla plumbers & builders SneIl Susan & Sons, maltsters, millers Westcott Mrs. Knowle cottage Heard ,John, blacksmith (water) & farmers, mills COMMERCIAL. Heard Silas, blacksmith SneIl Thomas Webber, farmer & land- Asbplant William, shoe maker Heard William, Gunsmiths' Arms P.R owner, Upcott Barton Ashton Thomas. tailor Hooper Rowland, farmer, Ransclifl' Trick 'Villiam, farmer, manure manu- Bennett Thomas, tailor Isaac Thoma~, shoe maker factnrer {bone, potato & superphos- Brown John, farmer, Abbott's hill Jury Robert, wheelwright phate) & steam threshing machine Chamings James SneIl, farmer, Coombe leverton Wm. farmr. Woolleigh Barton proprietor &c. Towell Clarke Henry H. farmer, Pearson Luxton Francis, butclIer I Vodden Thomas, carpenter Copp Jonas, mason Lyne In. jun. farmer, Old ParsoDllge IWeeks John Henry, farmer, Hole Cornelius Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Miller Nathaniel, farmer, Harepath I Westcott l"anny (Mrs.), Globe inn Easterbrook Henry, carpenter &c Puddicombe Rt. farmr.Kiverleigh manr Westcott Thos.grocr.&drapr.Post office is a small village and parish, 6! miles rebuilt in 1884. The trustees of the late Ven. Archdeacon south-west from , with a station, called Henry Woollcombe are the principal landowners. The soil and Beaworthy, 1~ west of the village on the is sandy and clay; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are branch of the London and South Western railway, in the wheat, oats and roots. The acreage is 3,8c6 j l'ateable Western division of the county, petty sessional division of value, £1,395; the population in 1881 was 296. Hatherleigh, union and county court district of , Letters through Exbourne R.B.O. arrive at II a.ID. The east hundred, rural deanery of Okehamp- nearest money order office is at Hatherleigh, but Oke- ton, archdeaconry of Totnes and . The hampton is considered the most convenient. The nearest church of St. Alban, restored in 1871, at a cost of £500, is telegraph offices are at Halwill & Beaworthy & Ashbury an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of stations chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing WALL Box cleared at II.30 a.m 3 bells: there are 100 sittings. The register dates from the The place is included in the united school board district of year I759. 'fhe living is a rectory, gross yearly value from Halwill & Beaworthy tithe rent-charge £145, and 68 acres of glebe, with residence, Board School (mixed), founded in 1877, for 50 children; in the gift of and held since 1872 by the Rev..Frederick average attendance, 30 ; James Stratton, master Augustus Willis M.A., LL.D. of Dublin and ad eundem M.A. Halwell & Beaworthy Railway Stations, Alfred Capel, and D.C.L. Oxford. There is a Bible Christiau chapel here, station master Grey Lieut-Col. Henry, Beaworthy ho Harry John, farmer, Beamsworthy PengelIy Henry, farmer, Mansditch WIllis Rev. Frederick Augustus M.""., Harry Hobert, farmer, Tuchenor Pyke Henry, farmer, AIlaford LL.D., D.C.L. Rectory Harry Thomas, farmer, Madworthy Slooman Samuel, blacksmith OOMMEROIAL. Hunkin 'William, farmer, Broadmoor Symons James, landowner & farmer Bailey Rd.&Walt,farmers, Beamsworthy Hutchings Daniel ,frmr.Beaworthy town Tickle Evan, farmer, Patchacott Chapman Richard, farmer, Venn James Richard, farmer, Coxhole Tickle Thomas, farmer, Pestacott Cory Saml. farmer, Low. Beamsworthy Jordan William, carpenter Voaden Joanna (Mrs.), farmer, Bnrdon Friena Henry, farmer, Lower Melbury Luxton John, farmer, Higher Melbury Wakeham John, Broadbury inn Glass Henry, farmer, Weeks Lnxton William, farmer, Mount Westlake Mary (Mrs.), miller (water), Harry Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Hole Luxton William, jun. shopkeeper Wigdon mill Harry Edgar, farmer, Madwortby Muirhead Alexander, bailiff to George IWooldridge Jas. farmr. Ireland corner Harry In. shopkpr. & farmr. Park cot Webb :Medley esg. Dreybury BEER FERRIS, or BEER FERRERS, commonly called mail, wearing a long surcoat, and bearing a shield, and "Beer town," is a parish and village, situated between the alongside the effigy of a lady in flowing robes; these figures river Tamar on the west and the Tavy on the east, 9 miles are assumed to represent Sir William de Ferartis or Ferrers south from Tavistock and 8 north-by-west from Plymouth: and his wife, the founders or rebuildel'S of the church i above this parish includes BEER ALSTON, formerly a parliameutary the tomb rises a lofty triangular-headed canopy, richly borough, but disfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832, and crocketed and enclosing a feathered arch; ou either side are now a town with about 1,000 inhabitants, 2 miles north from tall foliaged pinnacles: iu the north transept is a low arch, the village of Beer Ferris: Beer Ferris is in the Western with very good mouldings, and the effigy of a knight, finely division of the county, Roborough hundred, Tavistock petty executed: here also is a large high tomb of Purbeck marble, sessional division, union and county court district, rural of the la~e Transitional period; the panelled sides bear deanery of Tavistock, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of shields within wreaths, and the upper slab exhibits the Exeter. There will be a railway station here, and also at matrix of a marginal inscription; this tomb is conjectured to Beer Alston, on the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western be that of Robert, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, ob. 1522 : Junction railway, now in course of construction. The church the east window is enriched with ancient stained glass, of St. Andrew, chiefly erected in 1243 by Sir ,rilliam Ferrers, replaced in 187I, and comprising kueeling figures of Sir is a capacious building of unwrought stone, in the Middle William Ferrers and Isota his wife; the kuight holds a Pointed style, but with successive additions of a Perpendi- church in his hands, and over his head is the inscription cular and Debased character, and consists of chancel and "WILLS FEREYS ME FECIT; " below are the shields of Yerrers nave, both with south aisle, transepts, south porch, with and Carminow: on May 28th, I821, Charles A. Stothard parvise, and an embattled western tower, with four pinna- F.B.A. while copying these figures, fell from a ladder and was cles aud containing 6 bells, all cast by I., C. & W. Penning- killed; his remains were interred in the churchyard imme­ ton, in 1775, and hung in three tiers: in the chancel is an diately below the window: the font is very ancient, and the altar tomb with the cross-legged effigy of a knight in chain bench ends and ceilings bear the shield of Ferrers, with a