DIRI<.:CTORY ) DEVONSHIRE. BATTERY. 609
By L QUEENSNYMPTON. 2 miles !Iouth of South Mol the principal landowners. The soil is a mixture of loam ton and formerly a detached part of that borough, was and clay; subsoil, skillett. The chief crops are whellt, formed into a, ci.,il parish ~larch 8th, rqoo: it consists oat~ and roots. The area is 524 acres; rateable value, o0f a few farms OIJJ the Oredi ton road, in the Northern £488; the population iiJJ 1901 was 44· division of the county, South Molton hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district. Letters are delivered from South Molton about 7.30 a.m.; "For ecclesiastical purposes it is in ~South Molton parish. there is no letter box in the parish, the nearest being It is 2! miles south of South Molton station~ on the Somer at Alswere. South Molton is the nearest post, money set and Devon branch of the Great Western railway. order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant H. B. Birmingham esq. J. Carter esq. of Olifton, Mrs. The childre'!lJ attend the schools at South Molton & White and Henry Manning esq. of Chittlehampton, are Ma.riansleigh Baker Henry, farmer, Woodhouse Cockram Albert Edward, dairyman Smith John,farmer, Great Frenchstone Davis James, farmer, carpenter & saw Shapland George, farmer, Little Tucker Thomas, farmer, landowner & overseer, Lev mills, Garramarsh Frenchstone • ~ACKENFORD is a parish and village on tbe Little are ladies of the manor and chief landowners. Courts Dart river, 5' miles south from East ..!.nstey station on leet and baron are held occasionally. Higher Thorne the Devon and Somerset branch of the Great Western belongs to Mr. George Dennis; Tidderson, for two cen railway, 9 south-west from Bampton, 8 north-west from tnries from 1572 the residence o[ the Kellands, a younger Tiverton and 10 south-east from South Molton, in the branch of that family at Lapford, now the property of Northern division of the county, Witheridge hundred, Mr. Richard Gunn, Mr. John Nott and Mr. Robcrt Snow. South Molton petty sessional division and union, Tiverton Mr. G. Matthews, :\Ir. Robert Ilaywood, Mr John Barnes county court district, rural deanery of South Molton, and Mr. R. T. Vey11t>y are also landowners here. The archdeaconry of 'Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. 'l'he soil is clayay and very productive; the subsoil is gravel. church of All Saints is a small and ancient building of The chief crops are oats and barley. The acreage is stone, in the Early English style, ronsisting of chancel, 3·938; rateable value, £2,303; the population in rgor nave of four bays, aisle, south porch and an embattled was 302. western tower containing 6 bells: the font is of the reign Post Office. - John Baker, sub-postmaster. Letters of Henry Vll.: there are 220 sittings. The regis(er through Morchard Bishop R.S.O. North Devon, arrive dates from the year I5C)7, hut is very defective and in nt 8.55 a.m.; dispatched a.t 5 p.m. wePk days only. parts almost illegible. The living is a rectory, net yearly Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The- value [2fJ3, including 54 acres of glebe, with residence, nearest monry order & telegraph office is at Witheridgr, in the gift of and held since 1890 by the Rev. ·Henry s miles distant • George Gifford B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Here is National School (mixed), erected in 1<872, for 8o children; a Bible Christian chapel. There are r;:harities to the average attendance, 52 ; Alfred Anthony Snowdon, amount of about £q. Miss Devon and Mrs. Dunford master; Mrs. Catherine Snowdon, mistress Gifford Rev. Henry Geo. B . .i. Rectory Boundy James, shoe maker Pincombe William, fanner, Bulworthy llaskins John Brown \Villiam, farmer, East Nescott Slader William,farmer,West Backstone Matthews Mrs · Doddington \Villiam Harris, game- Snow Rt.frmr. & landowner, Tidderson !'incombe Miss keeper to Miss Devon, The Lodge Stoneman Richard, farmer, Laneland Gnnn Gilbert & Allan,frmr,;. Tidderson Tucker William, farmer, East Mogford COMMERCIAL. Greenslade John, farmer, Higher Thorn Turner Frank, blacksmith Ayre Charles, miller (water) &; dairymn Manley \Valter, wheelwright Turner Henry,Stag P.H.& machine ma Baker John, shopkeeper & assistant Matthews Frank Roe, vet. surgeon ~vose Ellen (Mrs.), farmer, Mid- overseer, Post office 1\Iatthews Daniel, Bell inn, & farmer dlecott 13ater John, farmer, Lower Thorn Mildon \Vm. farmer, Higher Meadown Wood James, thatcher Ileedell Robert, farmer, Sydham Morris Abraham, frmr. Lewis farm Wood Thomas, mason !llackford Thomas, la I mer, North Nott .John, farmer, Worthy Yendall Frank, farmer & cattle dealer Back stone Palfry Louis, shopkeeper 'RATTERY is a parish and small villaa-e, 3 miles west borough and Coleridge, Totnes union and county court Trom South Brent station on the South Devon section of district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Totnes and the main line of the Great Western railway, and 5 west diocese of Exeter. Two small tributaries of the river by-north from Totnes, in the Southern division of the Dart intersect the parish, through which the Great county, hundred and petty sessional division of 'Stan- Western railway also passes. The church (dedii!:itlon DEVO~ 39