DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. SAMPFORD COURTENAY. 603 Wood William, baker, Thorning street Hannaford In. farmr. West Batson hall ! Yabsley Geo. carpenter, Robinson's row Hicks Matilda (Mrs.), dress maker Shadycombe. Yeoman Caroline (Mrs.),grocr. Union st Masters Aaron, farmer, Torr hill Adams Thomas, engineer Yeoman Eleanor (Mrs.),baker & grocer, Murch Wm. Hy. cartel', Higher Batson Brown Robert, farmer Union street I Pepperell Perrott, sail maker Hart John, chimney sweeper Batson. Reeve James, gardener Manning John, farmer Weymouth ·William Francis Trute Nicholas, grocer Putt John, master mariner -Adams John, farmer, Horsecombe Wood Edward, farmer Yeoman Thomas, sexton EllioU Robert, farmer, Higher Batson Yeoman John, farmer SALCOMBE REGIS is a village and parish extending propriators of the great tithes, and held since 1881 by the to the sea coast, bounded on the west by the river Sid and Rev. William Joseph Baugh M.A. of Hertford College,Oxford. sheltered by boldly swelling hills, which terminate in lofty There are some small charities, principally left by the late green sandstone cliffs, 16 miles south-east from Exeter, 8~ C. W. Smith, which are recorded on a tablet in the church. .south from Honiton and 2 miles east. from Sidmouth ter- Salcombe House is the residence of Miss Cornish and Green -minal station of a branch of the London and South Western Mount of ~rrs. Melhuish. Salcombe Hill, which divides the Il'ailway, in the Eastern division of the county, East Bud- parish, rises 497 feet above the level of the sea. The Sid leigh hundred, Ottery petty sessional division, Honiton side of the village is dotted with handsome villas, overlook­ flW.ion and county court district, rural deanery of Ottery, the bay and town of Sidmouth. The Right Rev. Robert ad archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Kestell Kestell-Cornish D.D. bishop of Madagascar, who is Peter and St. Mary is a building of stone in the Late Norman lord of the manor, Mrs. Melhuish, Charles Daniel Cave esq. and Early English styles, and consists of chancel, nave of M.A., LP., D.L. of Sidbury Manor, and the trustees of the two bays, aisles and an embattled western tower, of Per- late N. Worsley are the chief landowners. The soil is pendicular date, containing a clock and 3 bells: there are silicious; the subsoil is limestone. The chief crops are foUl' stained windows and several monumental tablets and wheat, barley and roots. The area is 2,565 acres of land in the north aisle is a flat stone inscribed to George Drake, and 40 of water; rateable value, £3,731; the population in .()b. 21 Aug. 1645; Katherine Drake, his sister, ob. 31 Aug. 1881 was 504. 1651, and Philip Drake, their father, ob. 17 Sept. 1668: the Parish Clerk, John William Payne. .church will seat 221 persons. The register dates regularly Letters received by foot post from Sidmouth, which is the from the year 17°2, but" there is one old book of baptisms, nearest money order & telegraph office burials and marriages, so torn and confused as to render it WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5.35 p.m. week days only impossible to decide when the entries commence and termi- WALL LETTER Box, Sid road, cleared at 8.30 a.m. 1.10 p.m. nate." The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £132, net & 6.20 p.m. week days only yearly value about £225, with residence and 9 acres of glebe, Parochial School (mixed), built in 1840, for 60 children ~ in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, who are im- average attendance, 39; Mrs. Sarah Payne, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Melhuish Mrs. Green mount Denner William, farmer, Soutbdown Anderson-Morshead John Yonge J. P Minifie William, Beatlands "Foster Misses, ladies' sch!' Salcombe hill Baugh Rev. Wm. Jsph. M.A. Vicarage Nicolas Miss, Sid bank Lang John Dashwood, steward to C. D. Coate Alfred William, Sid cottage Norris Frank, Woodbine Cave esq. D.L., J.P. Knowle Cobham Capt. J0hn L. Springcoombe Payne Thomas, Mount Pleasant Lawrence James, carpenter Coney Mrs. Sidcliffe Peren Mrs. I Brooklet villas Maeer Fredk. da.iryman, Low. Chelstone Cornish Miss, Salcombe house Pole John, 4 Brooklet villas " Maeer Thomas, farmer, Chilson Cowan Richard, St. Kilda· Skinner Misses, Sid abbey Northcott Levi,dairyman, Higher Giggs Darke Levi John, I"ortescne cottage Slingsby William Percy Payne John Wm.farmer, North Coombe Evans Maj.-Gen. Dawson Kelly, Sid ho Spiller Mrs. Salcombe lodge Quick John H. chief officer coast guard, "Flood Miss, Craig-y-Barnes Stephens Isa.ac, St. Kilda Salcombe hill Floyd William Murray, 3 Brooklet viIs Stephens Misses, St. Kilda Richards James, farmer, Slade Foster Miss, Salcombe hill Thompson Mrs. Brooklet cottage Rowland George, farmer, Champs Foster Mrs. Egypt Water Miss Russell James J. farmer, Salcombe hill Gray Albert Charles, Sidcliffe Wright James, Salcombe mount Snell Thomas, farmer, Coombe wood Hayward Miss, 2 Brooklet villas COMMERCIAL. Strawbridge James Jabez, builder Button William, Sid Anning John, farmer, Thorn Sweetland Jas. dairyman, Barnesurges Lang John Dashwood, Knowle Burroughs Jane (Mrs.), lodging house, White John, farmer, 8id Lubbock Charles W. Myrtle cottage Salcombe cottage White Robert, farmel', Skinner's Majendie Wm. Fras. Henry, Hill's cot Chard William, farmer, Dunscombe Winsley Amos, blacksmith SAMPFORD COURTENAY is.!!. parish and village, esq. John Westaway esq. G. T. Mooney, of Down St. Mary, situated near the road from Crediton to Okehampton, with and J. Pedler esq. of Bow; a large portion is owned by a station I! miles south of the village, on the main line of King's College, Cambridge, who are lords of the manor, the London and South Western railway, 194 from London, 'fhe soil is red loam and clay; the subsoil is skillett. The 5 north-north-east from Okehampton, in the Western divi- chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is sion of the county, Black Torrington hundred, Hatherleigh 7,962 acres; rateable value, £5,439 ; the population in 1881 petty sessional division, Okehampton union and county was 892. court district, rural deanery of Okehampton, archdeaconry STICKLEPATH, 5 miles south and situated on the road of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Andrew from Okehampton to Exeter and near the river Taw, is a is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, parochial chapelry annexed to the parish of Sampford consisting of chancel, nave, aisles with arcades of five arches, Courtcnay; the chapel of ease, rebuilt in 1875 at a' cost of south porch and a lofty embattled western tower, with pin- £700, is a small building of stone, in the Early English nac1es, containing a clock and 6 bells, all cast in 1770 : the style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, north porch and a fine carved oak roof, at present almost entirely hidden by turret containing one bell: the Rev. Thomas Henry Sted­ plastering, displays two carved bosses, with busts represent- man Polehampton, Trul'O Theological College, who resides illg an earl and countess of the Courtenay famjIy of the at Sampford Courtenay, is curate. The Wesleyan chapel, 14th century; two other bosses bear the figure of a boar erected in 1816, is a building of stone, with an ancient stone and the arms of Courtenay: the restoration of the chancel, cross surmounting the gable, and an eastern turret contain­ nave and aisles, is now (1889) in contemplation: there iug one bell. The Temperance Hall, with reading room 00 8 are 3 sittings. The register dates from the year 155 . attached, was erected in 1884, at a cost of £250 , and is a. "The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Sticklepath plain building of stone, and holding 200 persons. annexed, tithe rent-charge £650, net yearly value £SIO, with residence and about 85 acres of glebe, in the gift of WILLEY,4 miles south, and CORSCOMBE, 2t miles south, King's College, Cambridge, and held since 1859 by the Rev. are hamlets of this parish. Edward Reed Theed M.A. formerly vice-provost and senior Parish Clerk, Robert Ash. fellow of that college, who is also rector of Honeychurch. There ill a Bible Christian chapel. The charities amount POST OFFICE, Sampford Courtenay (Railway Sub-Office. to £2 I8s. yearly. There are three stone quarries in this Letters should have R.S.O. Devon added). ~ Robert parish, which seems to have been colonized at an early date, Fewings, receiver. Letters received at 5·45 a.m.; dis- by the Romans; in the middle ages it became the property patched at 7.48 p.m. The nearest money order office of the Courtenays. The village is supplied with water is at North Tawton; the telegraph office is at the Railway for drinking purposes from Ladywell spring, the water station being conveyed through pipes laid down in 1887 at a cost POST & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, of £50. The chief landowners are William Lethbridge Sticklepath.- Richard Yea, receiver. Letters through esq. I.P. of Wood, South Tawton, John Jackman 138 Okehampton, received 6.45 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Long acre, London, William Lang esq. William Reddaway The nearest telegraph office is at Okehampton.