6'38 TEDBUR~ ST. MARY. DEVON~HIR E. [KELLY'S • • Olark J oh~ farmer, Great Farward Miller William, King's Arms P .H Sparks Gilbert, farmer,assistant over- G'rolrer William, Red Lion P.H Parkhouse Thos. frmr. Lower Rubhay seer & cleTk to the Parish 06uncil 1 Dennis Richard, Jarmer, Wayland Parsons John, shopkeeper, Post office Stanbury William, butcher & farmer tDennis Samuel, farmer,Town Barton tPedrick Wm. farmer,Gt.Hackworthy 1 Taylor Denis, mason · Dennis William, farmer, Hill farm Phillips Wm. farmer, Coate farm Taylor William, farmer, Brook Dodge William, farmer, Newhouse Pike -Sarah (Mrs.),farmr.Coombe frm Thomas Arthur John, farriver Teign, with a station, 2n! miles from and held since 1914 by the Rev. Ralph Alien (Jochrane London, on the Moretonhampstead branch, and another M.A., L. Th., B.Litt. of Hat:field Hall, Durham, who called Heathfield Ju:q.ction, 210 miles from London, on resides at Newton Abbot. There are charities' of about the Teign Valley branch of the South Devon section of £6o yearly, left many years ago, and now expended in the Great Western railway. Teigngrace is about 2 miles helping the sick and aged poor. Stover House, the north~west from Newton Abbot, 16 south-west fronl. seat of Richard Harold St. Maur esq. D.L., J .P. Exeter, 8 north-west from Torquay and 6 south from pleasantly situated on an eminence in an extensive and Chudleigh, in the Totnes division of the county, Teign- wen-wooded park. with a lake of ornamental water, is a bridge hundred and petty sessional division, Newton structure of Haytor granite, with a portico of Portland Abbot union, Newton Abbot and Torquay county court stone, built by James Templer esq. in 1776, and pur­ district, rural deanery of Moreton, archdeaconry of chased by Edward Adolpkus, nth Duke of Somerset, Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The Stover canal, made in 1829, from the late George Templer esq.} the princi­ by the Templer family~ and extending from the head pal entrance to the park is on the main road· from of the navigable portion of the Teign to this village, a Exeter !{) Plymouth, where, there are two lodges con­ distance 1>f about 2 miles, greatly facilitates the. exporta- nected by a colonnade of fluted pillars, each consisting tion of the pipe and potters' clay found in the neighbour- of a single bloclr of done. R. H. St. Maur esq. is hooo; it is now the property of the Great Western Rail- lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is way Company, whose line is adjacent and parallel to it. light loam; subsoil is chiefly clay and yellow sand. The 'church of St. Mary, erected by three brothers The crops are grain, mangold wurtzel and potatoes. of the Templer family in 1787, is an edifice of stone The area is 1,447 acres of land, 49 of water and 3 d in a debased form of Early English, consisting of tidal water; rateable value, £2,q6; the population in nave with apse, transept, wesf porch and a western 1911 was 165. tower containing 2 bells; the first, dated I]OI, has a Sexton, Samuel Gerrey. bandin_g of grapes and vine leaves: over the communion - table 1s an oil painting of a "Pieta," being a copy of Letters received by post through Newton Abbot. Wall the original, by Vandyke, in the museum at Antwerp: Letter Box. Newton Abbot, 2 miles distant, is the near the Templer family pew is another painting Qf tb,e nearest money order & telegraph office "Presmtation in the Temple" r there are mural monu- Public Elementary School, erected in 1873, &; enlarged ments to various members of the Templer family: the in 1904, for 6o children; Mrs. Alice Lombardini, milt church was th(}roughly renovated in 1872 at the expen!'e • of the 12th Duke of Somerset K.G. and affords 113 Railway Stations. sittings. The register dates from the year 1681. ThE> Teigifgrace , sta.i;k,n master living is a rectory, net yearly income [182, including 65 HeathtiMd-William .Tames Reed, station master- St. Maur Richard Harold D.L.,· J.P. Hoskin· Jane Ann (Mrs ..) & Son,, Stark John & Frank, farmers', Twelve Stover house farmers, Hearder's farm I Oaks Lang Eli Jn. farp1er, Ley Green farm Stover Canal Co. boat builders. COMMERCIAL. Mann John Burridge, frmr. Blatchfrd Watts, BlaH:e, Bearne & Co. Ltd. Cocks Wm. Richd farmer, Ventiford Richardson Geo. Fdk. head gardener china clay merchants Harmer Saul (Mrs.), farmer, Brocks to R. H. St. Maur esq. D.L., J.P •

• TEIGNl\IOUTH TEIGNMOUTH is a seaport on the south coast, a mar­ By an Order of the Local Governme~t Board, which ket town and presoriptive borough, with a station on came into operation on the rst April. 1909, the two the South Devon section of the Great Western railway, parishes were amalgaq1ated for civil purposes. 14 miles south from Exeter by rail and 15 by road. 6 Teignmouth is situated on the coast of the English east-by-north from Newton Abbot, 8 north-north-east Channel and on the north bank of the mouth of the river from Torquay and 191 from London by road and 186! Tei~n, partly on and around the base of a triangular point (via Westbury) by rail, in the Totnes division of the of land which projects halfway across the estuary, and county, Exminster hundred, Teignbridge petty sessional on the acclivities of the hill which rises from this point division, Newton Abbot union, Newton Abbot and Tor- to the north-west and commands extensive views of the - quay county court district, rural deanery of Kenn and river and the sea; 1t consists of the parishes of East archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. and West Teignmouth, formerly separated by an open The Great Western railway, after winding along the stream, which is now covered over; these parishes also estuary of the Exe and a part of the coast, passes through form separate manors. Although the _town is irregu­ nearJ.y the centre of the town, and thence along the north larly built and some of the streets are narrow, it con­ bank of the river Teign to Newton Abbot, Totnes and tains some good shops, several fine terraces and many Pl~outh, thus affording ready and constant communi­ good residences ; it is lighted with gas from works in cation with those places, as well as with Exeter, Bristol, Bishops Teignton road, about three-quarters of a mile London and ·other parts of 'England. from the town, and well supplied with water from works The town is of considerable antiquity, having sent at Coombe vale, both of which were established June members to the Council at Westminster in the reign of 7th, 1836, ~and are now the property of the Urban Edward I.: it is not incorporated, but is governed by Council. During the years 19o6-1go9 about £20,000 an Urban District Council of 12 members, formed in was spent on an additional water supply fr{)m Dart­ December, 1894, under the "Local Government Act" of moor, about 25 miles distant, and the bulk of the that year (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), which takes the place supply is now obtained from this source. of a Local Board, established April 8, 1859· St. Nicholas .About [r5,ooo was spent in 1909 in making good parish and part of Stoke-in-Teignhead were annexed to damage caused to the sea front by gales in January, Teignmouth in 1881 under the Act 44 and 45 Vict. c. 99, Ig<>B, and in extending the promenade and constructing for Urban purposes. a lower promenade. . By Local Government Board Order No. 31,88o, the The Den, or Dene, is a grass plot runrung parallel with parts of civil parishes gf Bishopsteignton and Dawlish the sea front._ and forming a fine promenade cf more within the 'Urban District of Teignmouth were, in 1894, than half a. mile in length, and sheltered from the transferred to the Rural District of Newton Abbot and east wind by high banks: in 1909 a. bowling greea the Urban District of Dawlish respectively. was opened, and tennis courts were laid down in 1910. • •