94 BRATTON FLEMING. DEVOXSHIRE. (KELLt''s
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Britton. Henry, mason Holmes Waiter, farmer, Sharland Chichester George, Chelfham (letters Brock William, farmer, Pennyhole Huxtable Frank, frmr. Higher Ha:x.ton should be addressed Stoke Rivers, Burge James, farmer, Benton Huxtable W. H. farmer, Higher Barnstaple) Camp George, farmer, Lower Haxton Kipscombe CobbOld Rev. Rowland Francis M.A. Chapple Wm. farmer, Parsonage frm Kingdon Geo. farmer, Barton Acres (rector), Rectory Clark John, farmer, Narracott Land Wm. farmer, Ohelfham Barton Eyton Miss, Woodside Orang George, farmer, Haxton Middle Lavercombe Goorge, tailor Fa.nshawe Basil, Holywell Girt Crocombe Geo. frmr. Low.Kipscombe Lavercombe James, blacksmith Hill William, Dunkerry Ewens George Mount-Stephen, baker Miles Ernest, farmer, South Thorne Koebel William Henry, Bragan Fanshawe A. & N. (Misses), farmers Parker Arthur James, butcher 'I'homson Rev. Francis Drake M.A. Gammon John, farmer, Hunnacott Parkin Cyrus, tailor The Castle Gill Frederick, farmer, Hatton Down Skinner Frederick, farmer, Homedale Thomson Harold, The Castle Gill Henry, farmer Skinner Thomas, farmer. Southacott . Gill Samuel, farmer, Sprecott Tallyn WiUiam, farmer, Chumhill COMM"EBCIA.L. Gill William, farmer Toms Mary Gill (Mrs.), farmer, .Antell William, farmer, Friendship Gill Wm. Hedley, road contractor Nightacott . . Baker William John, farmer, Elstone Harding -Anthony, farmAr,Nth.Thorne Tucker Emily (Mrs.), farmer,Stowfrd & The Grange Stud farm Hayes A. E. White Hart P.H Tucker Richard, farmer,Down (letters Beard John, farmer, Stowford Heal Wm. sen. farmer, Nightacott should be addressed South Molton) Bowden Arth.carrier & farmr. Benton Heal William, jun. farmer, Leworthy Tucker Richard, tailor Bowden John, farmer, Nightacott Hill Albert, farmer, Town farm Ware George, shoe maker Bratton Flaming Village Club & Holmes George, farmer, Fernham Webber Havelock, carpenter Reading Room (John Ba.rrow, hon. (letters should be addressed South Welch John, miller,Bratton water mill
sec. of men's club) Molton) Yeo William, farmer1 New House
BRAUNTON is a parish and vnJage, on the banks of nocks is the _residence o( Mrs. Incledon-Webber. The a rivulet, with a station on the llfracombe branch of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor ; South Western r~ilway, 2 miles from the coast and Taw and Mrs. Incledon-Webber, the trustees of the late estuary, 5~ north-west from Barnstaple, 8 south from Sir Frederick William Williams, 5th bart. (d. 1913). Ilfracombe and 217 from London, and is th& head of a the trustees of .!.ugustus Langham Christie esq. and petty sessional division, in the Barnstaple division of J. W. Gifford esq. are the chief landowners. The the county, Braunton hundred, Barnstaple union and soil is sandy loam; the subsoil is clayey. The chief county court distriqt and in the rural deanery and arch crops are wheat, barley, potatoes and root crops. The deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The area is 10,265 acres of land, 17 of water, 82 of tidal village is well supplied with water from an adjoining water and 1,393 of foreshore; rateable value, £15,648; hilol, and has good drainage. The church of St. Bran the. population in 191I was 2,328. r nock is a large and ancient building of stone, in the The hamlets are: Bearcharter, 2 miles nOI·th-east; Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of, Pipacott, 2! east; Hallsinger, 2 north-east; Winsham, r~ chancel and nave and transepts, north and south north-east; Knowle, with a mission church and a Wes porches and a tower on the south side, with spire, con leyan chapel, r north; Nethercott, 1! north-west; taining a clock and 8 bells: the nave has a panelled Saunton, 2 no_rth-west-by-west and Lobb, rl: miles north oak roof of considerable span, repaired about xBso, and west. exhibiting on one of its panels a carved representation S.AUNTON SANDS, ~ miles north-west-by-west, is an of_ a sow with a litter of pigs, alluding to a tradition extension of Saunton, and has a small mission church; that St. Brannock, who preached Christianity here the Rev. Edward Francis Williams Hudson M.A. is .A.D. 550, waS' directed, in a dream, to build a church curate in charge. . on the spot where he should first meet such a group : Sexton, John Passmore. • there is an inta.esting palimpsest brass, having on Post, M• 0., T. & TeJephonic Express Delivery Office one side the effigy of a knight in bascinet and camail, (Letters should have Devon added). Mrs. Mary Alice c. uoo, and on the other the effigy ()f a lady kneeling Clarke, sub-postmistress at -a prie-dieu; this is inlaid above a st-epped cross Wall Letter Boxes.---Dhurch street; East hill; Knowle;. incised in a large stone slab, and at the foot is a North street; South street; West Saunton & Wraf brass inscription to Lady Elizabeth Bowcer (Bourchier), ton lane daughter of John, xst Earl of Bath, and wife of Post & Telegraph Office, Sallllton.-Mrs. W . .Allin, sub Edward Chichester esq. ob~ Z{th .Angust, 1548: the postmistress. Letters arrive from Braunton, Devon, church contains some of the finest examples of wood which is the nearest money order office carving in Devonshire, especially on the bench ends : Wall Letter Box, Saunton Sands the font is probably Norman: a new organ waf ereoted in 18g6 by public subscription : in 1.887 th1 Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners' Royal Benevolent nave of the church was new-roofed and the bells re· Society; hon. representatives : hung, with the addition of two new ones, at an e:xpPns' W. Manaton, Church street; Miss Gladstone, The Terrace. of {,1,2oo, under the direction of Mr. William Whit• See advertisement F ,S . .A. architect, of London: the south transept, former by the ground storey of the tower, has been restored. Schools. in memory of Mr. Edward Mock, by his widow, and Public Elementary, built in 1872·3, at a. cost of about also the chancel, under the direction of the late Mr £1,400, for 450 children; Charles Henry Minchington, Ewan Christian, architect: in rgog the east and wes' rr aster; Miss Winifred A. Smith .A.. C.P. mistress; windows were filled with stained glass : tpere lllre 450 Miss Emily Morgan, infants' mistress sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. ThP This schoo' is controllild by six managers ; George living is a vicarage, net yearly value £353• includin~ Mills, Barnstaple, correspondent; T. Lit ton, attend residence, in the q-ift of the Bishop of Exeter, and helr ance officer since 1916 by the Rev. John Henry Prince M.A. of Chaloner's Endowed Secondary School (boys), which has Oxford University. On a neighbouring hill are some an endowment of {,83 xos. derived from land, was re remains of an ancient chapel, said to have been bu~lt or~anized in 1875 under a new scheme framed by the by St. Brannock, and known as " St. .Anne's chapel.'' Education department, & after being closed from 1889 There is also a memorial tower, erected to commemorate was re-opened in Sept. 1891; John Langdon Balph the repeal of the Corn Laws. Here is a Congregational B..A. ma8ter chapel, founded in 1662, with sittings for 350 persons, Police Station, Heanton street, William Robinson, ser a Wesleyan chapel and a meeting-room for the Brethren. geant, & 1 constable The charities amount to £3o yearly. Near the sea is a Railway Station, Charles-- Lucas, station master large sandy tract of land called " Braunton Burrows," Carriers to Barnstaple. John Geen, Heanton street, abounding with rabbits: here is also a lighthouse and daily; George Clarke, North street, daily & A. W. a lifeboat station, worked from .Appledore. St. Bran- Ridd, 1 White Lion' · BRAUNTON. IBesley Miss E. 9 New road Chichester Miss, Scur cottage PBIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Bolt William, Bardedene, South st Chichester Mrs. Walter,Fern Side cot Bosson Waiter Ernest, Vellator Chug-g Mrs. Rozel, Wrafton road Alford Mn. New road Bradley Edward, 2 Hartland view Cla.rke Capt. Georget 7 New road .Alien Mrs. 4 Sea View terrace Bradley Wm. Henry, I Hartland view Cope Henry Gabriel, Beacon hill .Allin John Colley, Park ho. South !!t Cann Edwin, East hill Corney Frank, Tyne Holm,Wrafton rd Archer Hany, The Glen Carter Francia: S. r4 Barton lane Davey Thos.Anstey,Taw-Vale,South st Bawden Mrs. 5 Park villas Channings .John, Westmead Davies Bev. James Morley (Congre- Bedford Mrs . .Orchal'd dene Chicbest.er Capt. William, Wrafton rd gationrd), The Manse