526 STOKE CANON. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Ford Charles 'I'homas, land agent & Molland Joe, tailor & shopkeeper registrar of births & deaths for farmer, Oakhay Molland John, tailor, Post office Heavitree sub-district Greenslade John, cattle dealer Price Richard, mason Tremlett Frederick & Co. paper manu· Hards Frederick,blacksmith&whlwrght Richards John, shopkeeper & carpenter , facturers, Stoke Canon Paper works King H. deputy registrar of births & Tidball William, rate & tax collector & Ward & Co. coal & general merchants deaths for Heavitree sub-district STOKE DAMEREL, see PLYMOUTH. STOKE FLEMING is a pari·h and village, situated on 1538. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value from tithe the shore of Start Bay, 2t miles south-west from Dartmouth, rent-charge £650,with residence and 69 acres of glebe,in the 12 south-east from Totnes,and 3 south-westfrom Kingswear gift of and held since 1873 by the Rev. Edmund St. Aubyn station on the Dartmouth branch of the Great Western rail- RA. of New College, Oxford. Here is a Congregational way, in the Southern division of the county, Coleridge chapel, built in 1846. The charities amount to £8 yearly. hundred, Stanborough and Coleridge petty sessional division, Blackpool is the residence of Thomas Holdsworth Newman Kingsbridge union and county court district, rural deanery esq. and Bowden Honse of Lewis Richd. Netherton esq. Lewis of Ipplepen, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. Richard Netherton esq. is lord of the manor, and Arthur Fred A small portion of the borough of Dartmouth is ecclesiasti- Holdsworth esq. J.P. of Widdicombe; Joseph BaxendaJe esq. cally within this parish. The church of St. Peter is an edifice and Mrs. Chilcott are chief landowners. Thesoil is light; the of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, subsoil is dunstone and slate. The chiefcrops arewheat,barley, nave, aisles,north porch, and a lofty embattled western tower oats, potatoes and pasture. The area is 3,059A. 2R. 28p. ; containing a clock and 6 bells, all cast in 1777 = in the nave rateable value,[,4,714; the population in 1881 was 735. is a brass with rich embattled canopy and effigies, to John In 1886 the part of the parish in King's Dartmouth borough Corp, ob. December 2, 1351, and his granddaughter Eleanor, was amalgamated with St. Petrox. (lb. April 23rd, 1391: the epitaph is in Norman-French and Deputy Sexton, John Reynolds. Latin; there is also an inscription in English verse, with PosT&M.O.O.,S.B.&Annuity&InsuranceOffice.-Charles shield of arms, to Elias Newcomen,ob.lgth, July, 1614, rector Putt Dure, SUb-postmaster. Letters arrive from Dart- of this place,and great-grandfather of Thomas Newcomen, of mouth at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m. The nearest Dartmouth, the inventor of the steam engine: in the tower is telegraph office is at Dartmouth the recumbent effigy of a lady, in the costume of the latter A School Board of 5 members was formed February 13th, part of the 13th centuryand holding a book in the left hand; 1874, for that portion of the parish not included in the it is supposed to represent Eleanor (Mohnn) wife of Sir John muuicipal borough of Dartmouth ; P. Hockin, Dartmouth, Carew : the very handsome brass chandelier in the chancel clerk to the board; John Burmester, Stoke Fleming, was the gift of Sir Thomas Freake bart. of Warfleet, Dart- attendance officer mouth: there are 300 sittings: the whole fabric was Board School (mixed),built in 1875,at a cost of about £2,250, repaired and reseated in 1871, under the direction of J.P. St. inclusive of the site, for lIO children; average attendance, Aubyn esq. architect. The register dates from the year 100; James R. M. Hooper, master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I Davis Richard Henley, miller (water), I Moysey Philip, farmer, Great Coombe Blackpool Pedrick George, farmer Bidder Misses, Stoke house Dura Chas.Putt, tailor &grocer,Post off Pedrick James (Mrs.), miller (water), Buddicom Rev. Rt. Jsph. M.A. Redlap EarIe George, farmer, Riversbridge Blackpool Chilcott Mrs. Ash Earle John, farmer, Broom hill Peek William Torr, mason Cornish Francis Shath, Stoke lod ge Earle Nathaniel, farmer, Great Cotton Perrin John, farmer, Pleasant valley Huxham Sanluel, Swannaton Elliott Thomas, farmer, Little Cotton Pitts Sampson, butcher Irving Misses, Belvedire Foale Edwin, farmer, Bowden Pook Arth.Hy.seedsman & manure mer Kennard Misses, Southfield Fox & Martin, grocers & bakers Pook Elizabeth (Mrs.). lodging house, Martin James Hambling James, carpenter Endsleigh Netherton Lewis Richard,Bowden house Hannaford Mark, butcher Pook Samuel John, farmer,Westcombe Newman Thos. Holdsworth, Blackpool Heath John Henry, farmer, BugIord Pound Thos. Lamzed, teacher of music Noble Miss, The Glen Issell William Pike, shoe maker I Prowse Ann (Mrs.), London inn Owen Edward, Stoke house Kennard Geo.Hy.blacksmith,Embridge Roper Frank, miller (water), Blackpool St. Aubyn Rev. Edmund B.A. [rector] Lyndon Thomas, farmer, Worden Shepherd Samuel Philipl carriage pro- Spavin Mrs. Rock vale Mardon Henry, painter & glazier prietor & shoe maker 'reage Misses Martin Robert Hunt, farmer, Bugford Trant Henry, farmer, Thorn COMMERCIAL. Martin Thomas, New inn Trant John, farmer, Redlap Burgoyne John, basket maker Martin Thomas Henry, Green Dragon Trant William, farmer, Ash Coaker John, farmer, Woodbury P.R. blacksmith & farmer Wakeham Peter, farmer, Lower Ash Damerell John Wills, butcher :Michelmore John, mason Yabsley Ri('hard, farmer, Pound honse STOKE GABRIEL is a village and parish, situated on Rear-Admiral Richard Dawkins J.P. is delightfully situated the eastern bank of the estuary of the Dart, 4 miles sonth- in the centre of park-like grounds, a short distance from the east from Totncs station on the South Devon section of river Dart, and commands extensive views of the surround­ the Great Western railway, and 7 south-west from Tor- ing neighbourhood. About a mile and a half south-eastfrom quay, in the Torquay division of the county, hundred of the village is Sandridge House, formerly the residence of Haytor, Paignton petty sessional division, Totnes union and Charles Frederick nth and last Baron Cranstoun, d. 28th county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconryof September, 1869, and now occupied by the Hon. Baroness de Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Gabriel is Virte: this mansion is surrounded by extremely rich and fine an ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, con- scenery. Waddeton Court, is the residence of Henry Studdy sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch,and an embattled esq. J.P., D.L. is situated on an eminence, about two miles western tower containing 6 bells; the first two were cast in south-east,and overlooks the broad reach of the Dart to Lower 1845, the third and fifth in 1674; the fourth dates from 1648, Dittisham; it is a mansion in the Elizabethan style, built 011 and the tenor from 1827: the chancel retains a piscina : the ground near the site of an older house,some remains of which east window and another at the west end of the south aisle are still standing; the interior retains some good specimens of are stained: in the south aisle is a brass to members of the ancient carving and in the grounds is a private domestic Hunt family: the ('hnrch was repaired and re-seated in 1855, chapel, in the Early English style, erected in 1870, and con­ and again restored in 1879, at a cost of £1,800, the greater sisting of chanceland nave, and a belfry containing one bell; part of which was given by Mrs. Olive Holdsworth Hunt: in the chapel are several brasses to members of the family of there are 300 sittings : in the churchyard is a very fine yew Studdy. James George John TempleI' esq. M.A. (Oxon),J.p. is tree. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is lord of the manor. The principal landownersare H. Studdy a vicarage, augmentedby theEcclesiastical Commissioners to esq. D.L., J.P. the trusteesof the late J. C. Jackson, Rear· net yearly value of £300, with house, in the gift of the Bishop Admiral Richard Dawkins J.P. the Collings family, Rev. of Exeter, and held since 1881 bythe Rev.John Henry Napper Marcus Dimond-Churchward,Sir T. Baker, Baroness de Virte Nevill M.A.of Trinity College,Dublin. The sum of £ 10 yearly, and F. Churchward. The soil is light loam; subsoil, limc­ accruing from the rent of the inn called "Church House," is stone and dunstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and devoted to the repairs of the church. The charities amount to roots. The area is 2,595 acres of land and 480 of water; about£ 10 IOS. yearly, derived chiefly from the rents of some rateable value, £5,022; the population in 1881 was 642. fields at Broadhempstone, and are distributed by the church- AISH, I mile north from the village; WADDETON (or W AT­ wardens in money. Here is a Baptistchapel. Stoke Gabriel TON), 2 miles south; and PORTBRIDGE, three-quarters of a. was the birthplace of John Davis, the celebrated navigator of mile from the village, are hamlets. the North Seas, whose name has been given to the straits dis- Parish Clerk and ~exton, James Narracott. covered by him in August, 1585, between Greenland and POST OFFICE.-Mrs. Elizabeth Churchward, receiver. Let­ North America; he was killed by pirates on the coast of I ters received from Totnes at 8.25 a.m.; dispatched thereto Malacca, 27th December, 1605. Maisonette, the residence of at 4.25 p.m. The nearest money order & teleJTaph office