DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. UPLYME.' 749 Luscombe Philip, farmer, Lower Wells Plymouth• Borough Asylum (William Torr Wm. miller (water), Earlscombe Luscombe Wm. Hy.frmr. Cuthillwalls Henry Bowes M.D., B. S., F.R.C.S. Tucker Thomas, tailor Martin John, Kingsbridge Road hotel, Eng. medical superintendent; J. Watts Frank, builder Wranf!aton H. Ellis, clerk to the committee; Wendon Alfred, fa.rmer, Wood farm ·-· Mayoss Henry, Anchor inn Chas. Lintern, clerk to the asylum) Westlake Joshua, farmer Moore Emma (Mrs. ),grocer,Post office Salter George, farmer, Cannamoor l\-hite A. J. & Col!ey, land agents, Newman Harry, baker Scoble Samuel, farmer, Haye farm '\"rangaton Nicholls John J. farmer, Broadford Sherrell John, farmer, Whiteley White Arthur J. steward to the late Northmore Solomon, farmer Sherwill James, farmer, \Yare Sir \V. P. Carew bart. trustees, Pawley John, carpenter Shute John, carpenter ·wrangaton Pearse John, farmer, Piles Peek Smerdon John, blacksmith & school White George, farmer, Torpeak Front Charles, blacksmith, Fillham attendance officer \Vroth Charles Austin, farmer, DUIL- Prout Thomas H. farmer Stanbury Thos. F. fanner, Shute frm well & Haredon Rogers George, farmer, Higher weJ Stephen Philip, farmer, Godwell farm UPLOWMAN is a scattered parish, near the river was provided in 18go, at a cost of £350, and in 1896 Lawman, 4 miles north-east from Tiverton station on carved oak chancel seats and a reading desk: there are the Exe Valley branch of the Great Western railway, 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1662. in the North Eastern division of the county, petty SPS- The living is a rectory, net yearly value £327, including sional division of Oullompton, hundred, union and county 42 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held court district of Tiverton, rural deanery of East since 1885 by diocese of Exeter. The cester College, O'xford. .A.t 1Vhitnage is a 'Vesleyan, church of St. Peter was erected in the 15th century, Methodist chapel, built. in t888. Charities to the amount on the site of an earlier church built by Waiter Stapyl- of £35 yearly are distributed in money, £8 in calico and ton, bishop of Exeter, 13oB-27: of this church nothing flannel and £II in books and religious instruction. Capt. remains except the capital of one of the pillars, now Hugh Leonard Acland Troyte, of Huntsham CRockbeare, are mond and mother of Henry VII. who resided occasion- the principal landowners. The soil is principally sandy ally at the village of Sampford Peverell: it is an edifice and very fertile; subsoil, rocky. The chie-f crops are in the Perpendicular style, and CDnsists of chancel, nave, wheat, barley and apples. The acreage is 3,210; rateable south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower value, £3,310; the population in 1901 was 374 in the civil containing 6 bells, dating from 16-81 to 1820; the fourth and 389 in the ecclesiastical parish. By Local Government has the legend, "Ave Maria": on the south side of the Board Order 16,3o6, which came into operation March chancel arch is a hagioscope: the south aisle was 25, 1884, a detached part of Halberton parish, known lengthened by the addition of, a small chapel or chantry, as the. tithing of Chief Lawman, was amalgamated with founded by one of the Courtenay family, whose initials, this parish. "P. C." may be seen over a niche between the choir Sex,ton, William Latham. and the south aisle; within the niche are the badges of l'ost Office, Uplowman Oross.-John Hussey, sub-post- the Courtenay and Bohun families: the capitals of the master. Letters arrive through Tiverton at 8.5 a.nL piers bear the shields of the families of Ralegh and Bon- &; dispatched at 4.55 p.m. Postal orders are issued ville: three of the windows are stained, one being a here, burt not paid. The nearest money order & tele- memorial to the Rev. S. Pidsley, a former rector, and graph office is at Sampford Peverell, about 2 miles another to the late Mr. Commissioner Bere: the church distant was restored and a new chancel built in 1864: a memorial Wall Letter Boxes, near the church, cleared at 5 ·5 p.m.;. brass by 2\fr. Harry Hems, of Exeter, was placed on the Whitnage, cleared at 6. 25 p.m. except sundays south chancel wall in 1892, in memory of the Rev. Charles Sandford Bere 1\r.A. rector o±1 this parish r858-85 and National School (mixed), built in 1874, for roo children; vicar of :Morebath, where he died, 1885-89: the organ average athmdance, 52; Miss Emma Searchfield, mist (Marked thus * receive letters thro' *Cottrell James, farmer, Fair oak May John, blacksmith, Beer down W estleig h, Wellington, Somerset.) *Davcy William, dairyman, Murley Parish Geo. dairyman, nr. Coombe Hart William Philip, Wood Davey William H. dairyman, Chief Parr Frederick, Redwoods inn Merson Misses, Chief Lawman house Lawman Pearce Alice Elizabeth (Mrs.), farme:r; :Mooyaart Rev. Henry M.A. Rectory *Durman Waiter, farmer, Spalsbury Uplowman court Pidsley Mrs. Whitnage Gardner John, dairy, Lower Bere Pearce Robert, farmer, \Vhitnage Roberts Miss, Cotts cottage, Whitnge Greenslade Samuel, farm bailiff to Redwood Robert, dairyman, Gulmoo:r COMMERCIAL. Mrs. Alice E. Pearce, Uplowman et Redwood \Villiam, carpenter Arthurs Jas. blacksmth. Lowman cross Greensladc ~-illiam, basket maker Redwood William, farmer, Cottmore Bidgood 'iYm. dairymn. Lawman cross Hancock Jonas,farmer & miller(water), Shattock John Dinnicombe, farme~ Bowden Albert, frmr. Middle Coombe Staggs mills Houndsmoor Bncknell Robert, farmer, Hill Hussey Jn. whlwrght.Lowman cross Stevens Edwin, farmer, Sanctuary Chave Edward, farmer, Widhayes Hurford Wm. gen. dealer, Whitnage Sweet Josepb, farmer, Beer down (letters through Halberton, Tivrtn) Isnac Sampson, farmer, Higher Chief Warren Japhet, gardener to Rev. H. Chave James, miller(water),Land's mi Low man :Mooyaart M.A. The Rectory

Cosway "William, farmer, Low.Coombe H ussey John, sub-postmaster • • UPLYME is a parish and large scattered 'Village Talbot esq. J. P. is a conspicuous building, standing in pleasantly situated at the eastern extremity of Devon, and very beautiful grounds olJ about 40 acres. Wood House, 1 mile west from Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire, of which the seat of Mrs. Prescott, is a mansion of brick in the town it is a suburb ; 4 miles south-east from Axminster Gothic style, on an eminence about half a mile north­ etation on the London and South Western railway and west of the village. J. R. F. G. Tafuot esq. who is lord 9 west from Bridpmt, in the Eastern division of the Regis, who is lord of the manor, 1Valton Allhusen esq. county, Axminster hundred, petty sessional division, uniDn of Clevelands, Lyme Regis, Dorset, the truSitees of the and county court district, rural deanery of Dnnkeswell Ethelston family and R. R. Holland esq. are chief land­ and Honiton and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. owners. The soil is mixed; the subsoil is chalky amf The church oil SS. Peter and Paul, picturesquely seated limy. Here are large beds of blue and red Iias. The in a secluded valley, is an ancient building of stone in crops are wheat, roots and pasturage. The area is 3,58 4 the Perpendicular style, with some Decorated work, and acres of land and 54 of foreshore; rateable value, £4,795; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a low the populart.ion in 1891 was 830 in the civil and 756 in the" embattled tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and ecclesiastical parish. 6 bells: the church was thoroughly restored in 1876, and By Local Government Board Order 15,946, the tithing affords 350 sittings. 'l'he register of baptisms and mar­ of Shapwick was added to this parish from Axminster,. riages dates from the year 17ro; burials, r6gr. The March 24, 1884. living is a rectory, net yearly income £271, with residence and 36 acres of glebe, in the g-ift of the 'Ethelston trustees, Y .A.WL, half a mile north-west, HAROO~I13E, 1 east, and held since r883 by the Rev. Alfred Watlington Parke anrl ROCOMBE are hamlets here. Parish Clerk, John B. Adams. M.A. of the University• of Oxford. The Brethren have a small chapel at HarCDmbe, and there is also a Wesleyan Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, chapel at Rocombe. In 1850 a Roman bath, with a Parcel & Insurance & Annuity Office.-l<'red Saunders, beautiful tesselated pavement, was discovered here. sub-postmaster. Letters through Lyme Regis delivered Rhode Hill, the seat of John Reginald Francis Ge-orge at 8.10 a.m. & 3-35 p.m. (village only) week days &