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DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. . 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, Youlden James, farmer, Padson Horne Chas. miller (water), Nortbleigh Spark Angel, farmer, Higher Stocken is a village and parish, 3 miles south-by- here. The poor ha,'e about {,I6 distributed yearly. Here west from ,S north-north-east from , are marble quarries belonging to Mr. W. G. Thorpe, and and 2 west-by-south from station on the limestone quarries the property of Mr. R. Maddicott. The Torquay branch of the South (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 , 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 . 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,

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 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 , 34 south-south-west from and (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·