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768 UPTON PYNE. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S the entrance of the churchyard was erected by Lady Post Office.-William Vicke1·y, sub-postmaster. Letters ~orthcote in r875, and over the grave of the rst Earl arrive from Exeter. The nearest telegra,ph office is of...Iddesleigh is a memorial erected in 18go, and executed at Stoke Canon, 3 miles distant, & the nearest money ty Hems and Sons, of Exeter. The register of baptisms order office is ~t Brnmpford Speke dates from the year 1673; burials and marriages,. 1688. Public tlementary School (mixed), supported in part by The living is a rectory, net yearly income £450, inclu voluntary subscriptions, for 100 children; Archibald ding go acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the E. Painter, master Earl of Idaesleigh C.B.e and held since 1919 by the Rev. Police Station • Francis Henry Greville Knight M.A. of Brasenose Col lege,. Oxford. Dr. John Walker, author of the ''Suffer COVVLEY is an outlying hamlet, 2 miles north from ings of the Clergy," who was buried in this church, Exeter, on the road from Exeter to Crediton, formerly was induct-ed to this living in 1720 and died in 1746. part of the parish of Brampford Speke, but now, except The charities amount to £6 yearly. The Upton Pyne for ecclesiastical purposes., amalgamated with the parish Club, established in 1875 by the Rev. the Hon. J. Staf of Upton Pyne. The chapel of ease, erected by William ford Nortl;teote, rector here 1881-9, for the benefit of the Gibbs esq. on a site given by the daughters of the late working men of the village, comprises a reading ~oom, Joseph Sheppard esq. of Cowley, and consecrated 4th and has also a small library : t.here are about ~o mem May, r868, is a building of stone in the PerpendicnliU' bers, who pay a yearly subscription. A school library style, consisting of chancel, nave, south vestry, north of about 120 volumes is maintained at the parsonage. porch and a central turret containing one bell : the carved ~ drinking fountain, with cattle trough, in the form of oak reredos, a memorial to the members of the Merivale a granite .obelisk, has been erected in the village in family, is by Harry Hems : the stained east window is a memory of the Hon. Hugh Oliver Northcote, who died memorial to Andrew Leslie esq. surgeon R.N. d. Oct. 30 March, 1900, and of his daughter Cicely Julia Monica, 3 I st, I 866 : in the chancel is a stained window erected "\tho died 20 April, 1904. It bears a suitable inscription by the congregation to the Rev. Richard Cock burn and. was unveiled by t.he Dowager Lady Iddesleigh, Dec. Kindersley, a former vicar of Brampford· Speke, during 16th, 1905. Pynes, the seat of the Earl of Iddesleigh whose incumbency thi,s chapel was built and endowed; C.B. is a large and noble mansion, originally built from he died July I6th, I871: there are other windows to the designs- by Inigo Jones, and much enlarged in 1851; it Wyatt-Edgell family: the chapel will seat zoo persons. stands on an eminence, commanding a view of the sur The Rev. Edward Drake Drake-Brockman has been rounding country, in a picturesque well-wooded park of curate in charge since 1916, and resides at 2. Bartholo 8o acres. 'l'he Earl of Iddesleigh C.B. is lord of the mew terrace, Exeter. Cowley Plaee is the residence of manor and chief landowner. The soil is chiefly clay; Mrs. Wyatt-Edge11. The trustees of the late- Edward subsoil, clay. The chief crops are grain. The area is 'llfierbert Bayldon esq. are the chief landowners. 2,425 acres of land and 21 of water; rateable- value, Sexton, Samuel Trigger. . · £6,904; the population in 19II was, ecclesiastical parish, Post Office.--Reginald Ford, sub-postmaster. Letters 307; civil parish, including Cowley, 394· delivered from Exeter. Exwick, 2 miles distant, is "Sexton, William Vickery. the nearest money order & telegraph office • · UPTON PYNE. Ellis Richard, builder, & Three Horse! OOWLEY. lddesleigh :Earl of C.B., D.L., J.P. Shoes P.H . , Bennett Mrs. Bally Keel Pynes; & Athenreum club, London Exeter Corporation Waterworks Harding Mrs. The Manor SW1 Pumping Station (Alex.Kneel,mgr) Wyatt-Edgell Mrs. Cowfey Place Knight Rev. Francis Henry Greville Floyde William Henry, shopkeeper M.A. Parsonage . Hawkins Wm._farmer, Duryard Wood COMMERCIAl,.. • Sharland Wm. farmer, Pi&ces fal'm coMMERCI~L. Taverner George, farmer, Millcott Cockram William, market g:rrdener Balkwill .A.lfre{i, dairyman, Little Ley Taverner Sydney, farmer, Stevenstone Greenaway James, farn1er,Star Barton Bradford John, thatcher Upton Pyne Club (.A.. E. Painter,sec) Kelland William, gardener to Mrs. Butt Charles, gardener to the Earl of Vickery William, wheelwright, Post Wvatt-Edgell Iddesleigh C.B · office, The Myrtles . Reed Edgar Dennis, farmer, Cowley Castle Mary (Mrs:},farmer,Great Ley! Were Thomas, farmer, Turlake · Barton Ellis Joe, assistant overseer, clerk to Winson John E. blacksmith Slade Frdk.dairy frmr.Cowley Barton Parish Council & collector of taxes Yeo John, estate mason, Pynes lodge VENN OTTERY (or Fen Ottery) is a village and "Rock of .Ages," who was incumbent of these parishes parish on the western bank of the river Otter, r mile r766-8 : there are Bo sittings. The register dates from west from 'Pip ton St. John station on the Sidmouth the year 1587. The living is a vicarage, annexed to"' branch of the London and South Western railway, about that of Harpford, joint net yearly value about £195, 4!-nm-th-west from Sidmouth and 9 south-west from i-ncluding 23 acres of glebe (15! acres in Venn Ottery and Honiton, in the Honiton 'Sivision of the countv, East 7! acres in Harpford), iiL the gift o-f Lord Olinton, and • • Budleigh hundred, Ottery petty sessional division, union held since 1914 by the Rev. Douglas Hodgson M.A. of and county court district of Honiton, rural deanery of Merton College, _Oxford, who resides at Harpford. Ottery and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The Willoughby S. Smith e:;;q. ts lord of the manor. Lord church -