DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. THORNBtfiltY. 67~ Sexton, George Stevenll. but not paid. Tiverton, 5 miles distant, is the nearest Post Office.-Mrs. Lydia Burnett., sub-postmistress. money order & telegraph office Letters from Tiverton arrive at 8.50 a.m. & are dis Parochial School (mixed), built in r875, for 50 children; patched at 4·45 p.m. Postal orders are issued herr, average attenrlance, 33; Mrs. Rhoda C. Reese, mistrss Fowler Rev. James B.A. Rectory Chown Jcilin, miller (water) & car- Metters Simon, farmer, Clog's moor coMMERCIAL. penter, Temple bridge Roberts George, farmer, Cross moQJ" .Ayre Sarah .Ann (Miss), shopkeeper Connibear Jn. frmr.Low.SouthCDrnbe Roberts Mark, farmer, Mt. Pleasant Barrow Alfred, farmer, Gt. Eswrthy Cruwys Ann (:Mrs.), nurse Rowe Jas. frmr. Lower North Combe Bucklingham Ben, farmer, Starraton Cruwys George, carpenter, Temple ml Selly George, farmer, Cleeve Buckingham Jas. farmer, Linne ridge Drake John, farmer, Colson Barton Tucker Frank, farmer, Partridge Buckingham Mary (:Mrs.), farmer, Foss Charles, frmr. HigherSth.Combe Turner William, farmer, Town farm Looseland Gould John, farmer, Little Esworthy West Robt. farmer, Mid. Nth. Combe Burnett Lydia (:Mrs.), postmistress KeTs]a.ke Henry, blacksmith Wright Wm.farmer,High.Nth. Combe TETCOTT is a parish and village near the confluence and burials, I599· The living is a rectory, net yearly of the rivers Tamar and Claw and the COTnwall border, value £ uo, including 64 acres of glebe, with residence, si miles south from Holsworthy station on a branch of in the gift of trustees, and held since 188r by the Rev. the London and South Western railway, in the Western Herbert Upton Squire, of Sb. Aidans, who is also vicar division of bhe CDunty, Black Torrington hundred, Hols- of ClawtDn. Here is a Bible Christian chapel. ..A small worthy petty sessional division, union and county court charity of £2 ros. is distributed in clot'hing to the poor. district, and in the rural deanery of Rolsworthy, arch- ~rs. Richard Ford, of 17 Park street, Park lane, Loo deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church don "\V. is lady of the manor and principal lando·wner. of the Holy Cross is an ancient edifice of stone in the The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops Early English style, consisting of ohancel, nave, south are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 1,716 transept, south porch and an embattled western tower acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £8r7; with pinnacles containing one bell, cast in 1717: up to the population in rgor was r87 . ..Aug. rBrr there were 3 bells, but a licence was then ob By Local Government Board Order, 14,6gr, a detached tained from the bishop to sell two bells, one of which was part of Tetcott, including East Peake, was transferred to broken, to defray the expense of repairs to the ohurch: LuffinCDtt, March 22, r883. in the transept there is a marble monument, with arms of Sir Shilston Calmady kt. sheriff of the county, ob. 25 Post Office, Lana.-Francis Pooley, sub-postmaster. Sept. 1675, and to his wife, ob. Oct. r6gg; there is also Letters through Holswortb.y arrive at 8.55 a.m.; dis a marble tablet to .T ohn ..Arscott, of Tetcott, d. Jan. q88, patched 4·35 p.m. week days only. Postal orders arEl and a dilapidated monument to John Arscott esq. and issued here, but not paid. Holsworthy, 6 miles dis his two wives, dated from 1675 to 1708: the font is Nor tant, is the nearest money mder & telegraph office man, and there is a carved oak pulpit: the chancel was This place is included in the United School Board district reswred by tilie late rector, to whose memory a small of Clawt()n, Tetcott & Luffincott, formed .a.ug. 31, 1874 stained window was inserted by his family, on the south Board School (mixed), Lana, formerly used as a club side of the nave in 18 8 r : the rood screen, existing here room & leased from the late i.ady Moleswortili. & en in rS58, has now disappeared: the church was restored larged & converted into a !!chooJ house in I 876, for qo in 1874-6 at a cost of £6oo, and affords 200 sittings. 'l'he children; average attendance, so; William Clarke· register of baptisms dates from the year r6oo; marriages Richards, master; Miss Gully, assistant mistress Squire Rev. Herbert Upton, Rectory Oole :Martin, iarmer, Lana Lyle Samuel, shoe maker, L
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