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DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. IVYBRIDGE. 275 Chasty John, farmer, Rosencombe RorreU John. farmer, Lower oak Spear Thomas, farmer, 1Vestwood Crocker John, farmer, Smallworthy King Richd.&Wm.farmers,Downhouses Stanbury Benj. farmer, Gt. Wadefield. Down James, wheelwright Landick Samuel, farmer, Merryfield Stallbury James, farmer, Easlinton Duston John, shoe maker Lobb Thomas, farmer, Town Barton Stanbury John, farmer, l\"orthwood Edgecombe Thomas Hy. Five Oaks P.H Melhuish William, farmer, Sewardstune Vanstone James,wheelwright,Waytown Escott Thomas, New inn, Folly gate Percy Samuel, carpenter, wheelwright, Voaden Stephen, blacksmith, Oak Essery AlIen, farmer, Higher Padson joiner &c. Folly gate Ward John, farmer, Eastacombe Evely William, farmer, Lower Stocken Percy William, farmer, Waytown Westlake Uichard, farmer, Higher o"k Frost Thomas, Sportsman inn Reddaway James, farmer, Curworthy WoolridgeBenj.school attendance officer Hawking George, farmer, Elmead Reddaway John, yeoman, Curworthy Yeo John, farmer, Eastwood Heale John, farmer, Lower Westacott Reddiclifl'e George, farmer, Narracote Youlden Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), shop Hooper James, farmer, Little Widefield Rich Richard, farmer, Westlake keeper, Folly gate Hooper William, blacksmith, Folly gate Roberts William, farmer, Northleigh Youlden James, farmer, Padson Horne Chas. miller (water), Nortbleigh Spark Angel, farmer, Higher Stocken IPPLEPEN is a village and parish, 3 miles south-by- here. The poor ha,'e about {,I6 distributed yearly. Here west from Newton Abbot,S north-north-east from Totnes, are marble quarries belonging to Mr. W. G. Thorpe, and and 2 west-by-south from Kingskerswell station on the limestone quarries the property of Mr. R. Maddicott. The Torquay branch of the South Devon (Great Western) rail- Priory, the residence of Maj.-Hen. Alfred De Lisle R.E. in way, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Haytor, corporates a part of the original buildings of the ancient -petty sessional division of Teignbridge, union of Newton priory, but with several modern additions, and the whole Abbot, county court district of Newton Abbot and Torquay, forms a handsome mansion, standing in about 7 acres of Tural deanery of Ipplepen, archdeaconry of Totnes and garden and meadow land. There are no manorial rights, diocese of Exeter. The church of St. John the Baptist is a the land being all freehold. The chief landowners are large and ancient fabric of stone in the Perpendicular style, Robert Maddicottesq. of Daignton, Edgar Neyleesq. Francis consisting- of chancel, nave, aisles, separated from the nave Baring Short esq. J.P. of Bickham Kenn, Matthew Fortescue by arcades of six arches, south porch and a massive em- esq. and J. M. D. Shepherd esq. Rev. T. A. Bewes, Messrs. battled western tower with pinnacles containing 6 bells, of Hamlyn Brothers, Miss Godbed, Mrs. Lydstone and Mrs. which the first four date from I799, and the remaining two Bowden. The soil is fine loam and clay; subsoil, limestone. respectively from 1795 and I818 : the aisles have embattled The' chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The parish parapets and a small tower at each angle: the chancel has contains 2,853 acres of good land; rateable value, ['6,676 ; been new roofed.. and new windows inserted: there is an the population, excluding Woodland, in I88I, was 825. ancient rood-screen of exquisite design, but much mutilated, DAIGNTON is a hamlet, I mile east from the village. and a pulpit of ricWy carved oak: the chancel retains a COMBE FISHACRE is a hamlet, I~ miles south-east. piscina and aumbry, and a stoup remains in the porch: the Combe Fishacre House, the residence of Thomas Hodgson font is Early Perpendicular, and has a panelled basin with Archer-Hind esq. M.A., J.P. is a pleasantly situ'\ted house, <larved figures: there are many mural monuments to standing in a park and gardens of about 6 acres, built in I830 members of the Studdy, Shepherd, Neyle and Raynes by the father of the present owner. families: in 1883 a new organ was placed in an organ loft CASTLEFORD hamlet adjoins Combe Fishacre, on th3 then erected, at a cost of £200; the western gallery was west. then removed: the church plate includes a chalice, sup- WOODLAND was formerly a chapelry of Ipplepen, but is posed to be coeval with the church: there are 230 sit- now an ecclesiastical parish and will be found under a tings. The churchyard is entered through east and west separate head. Iych gates and contains the broken shaft of a cross on a Parish Clerk, James S. Hodge. granite pedestal, similar to the one at Torbryan. The POST & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- register dates from the year 167I. 'The living is a vicarage, "'iIliam Bovey, sub-postmaster. Letters received frOIn gross yearly value {,300, including 18 acres of glebe, with Newton Abbot at 7. IS a.m. & 6 p.m. ; dispatched at 2 & residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, 5.I5 p.m. ; sundays at IO.45 a.m. The nearest telegraph and held since 1887 by the Rev. Douglas Stuart M.A. of office is at Newton Abbot Lincoln College, Oxford. The Wesleyan ch~pel, erected A School Board, consisting of 5 members, was established with adjoining schools in 1866, at a cost of [2,000, is a Aug. 23rd, 1872, J. S. Bodge, clerk to the board & building of limestone, with Bath stone dressings, in the attendance officer Early EnglIsh style, and has sittings for 600 persons. This Board School (mixed), built in I866, for I60 children; parish was formerly the site of a Benedictine priory, a cell average attendance, 130; Robert Edwin Jago, master; of St. Pierre Fougeres, and dedicated to St. Andrew, of . Miss Jane Ann Farrell, mistress which the existing rectory house formed part; the names of CARRIERS TO NEWTON ABBOT.-William Luscombe & the priors and incumbents from the year 1274 are preserved Samuel Easterbrook, wed. & sat. returning same days I COM~fERCIAL. Lftscombe WilIiam, baker & carrier Ipplepen. Barber William, farmer, Newhouse Luscombe William, jnn. grocer P I ATE *Blachford John, farmer, Lylesford Maddicott Edmund, smith RV RESIDENTS. Bovey Edward, tailor Maddicott James, blacksmith [Names marked thus· receive letters through I Bovey John E. farmer, Park hill Nickels George John, farmer, Dornafield Totnes.] Bovey Mary Elizabeth (Miss), dress ma Pack & Son, nurserymen Amery Jasper, Endsleigh I Bovey Thomas, farmer, The Grange Pickard Job, farmer, Bickley estate Brig-gs James Mansfield,Clarendon villa· Brooks Joseph Benj. farmer, North end Putt Waiter, baker Dawson The Misses, The Bartnns I Bryant Albert, builder Sandford Charles, cowkeeper DeLisleMaj.-Gen.Alfred R.E. The Priory Clist John, cowkeeper Smith John, Plough P.H. & millwright, Doyle Miss, North End villa I Constitutional Club (J. S. Hodge, sec) agricultural engineer & implemnt.ma Ellis Mrs. Greenhill ICounter John, shoe maker Smith Robert, shoe maker Elphick Mrs. Sunny bank Cowling Nicholas, blacksmith Sowton Jane (Mrs.), farmer, New Barn Forh'scue Matthew, The Grange Easterbrook SI.Wellington P.H.& carrier *Tozer John, farmer, Bow Godbed Miss, The Elms Emmett Anna W. (Mrs.), farmer Webber John, cowkeeper, Park hill Harris Mrs Fletcher Charles, cowkeeper Wright Thomas, farmr.Bulleigh Barton Hellyer William, Fir Tree cottage Gillard John, farmer Larkin John Burton, Vine cottage I Harris John,miller (water),Bickley mill Daignton. Lee Henry, Anchol' cottage Bodge James Skinner, farmer & coal Maddicott Robert Manley Mrs. Tor view merchant, North end Coldridge Thomas, butcher & farmer Robiuson Joseph Fletcher, Park hill Horswill Phillip, cowkeeper & builder Maddicott Robert, landowner & farmer Rose Miss, North End villa Irish Frands Edward W. builder & *SmithSurgeoll-GeneraIAlexanderM.D., I general contractor, carpenter, house C.B. Great Ambrook I decorator & undertaker Combe Fishacre. Stevenson Mrs. Mount Pleasant James & Co. coal & lime merchants Archer-Hind Thomas Hodgson M.A.,J.l'. Stuart Rev. Douglas M.A. Vicarage Jones David, shopkeeper (Northumberland),CombeFishacre h) Thompson Andrew, Rosemore Langler WiIliam, wheelwright, builder, Cutmore John, farmer *Tozer John, Bow grange carpenter & undertaker Heyward William, farmer Yelland Lewis, Wesley villa I *LeeGeo.Mortimer,farmer,WayeBarton Nosworthy Oliver, farmer IVYBRIDGE is a small market town and ecclesiastical three stone bridges, and is 12 miles south-west from Totlles parish. formed in 1882, from the civil parishes of Ermington, II east-by-north from Plymouth, 34 south-south-west from Cornwood and Ugborough (the larger part in Ermington); Exeter and 235 from London, with a station a qnarter of a it is situated on the river Erme, which is here crossed by mile north on the South Devon section of the Great Westerp DEV. & CORY. IS·.