Feniton, and 74 Acres of Glebe

450 Feniton, and 74 acres of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1839 for £288 a year, whereof £8 is charged upon the glebe. The NATIONAL ScuooL was built at the expense of Miss Patteson. The poor have 4t acres of land, purchased with benefaction money in 1717 and 1737, and now let for £8. The Church land, 3 roods, is let for £2. PosT OFFICE at Mr. Edward Marks'. Letters are received at 8 a.m. from, and are despatched at 4.45 p.m., to Honiton. Honiton and Ottery St. Mary are the nearest Money Order Offices, and Sidmouth Junction Railway Station the nearest Telegraph Office. · • Bond John, victualler, Feniton Inn Hotel and posting house, Sidmouth Miller, Lilley & Madge, coal mer- Buffett Mr William, Rose cottage junction chflnts, Sidmouth junction ; and Carnell Miss Priscilla, National Griffin Henry, butcher, Fenny bridges Honiton; and brick and tile makers, school mistress Halse Henry, fmr. Higher Colesworthy Talewater Chown George, blacksmith Holman Henry, blcksmth, Colestocks Murray Misses Jane & Mary Ann, Chown J oseph, carpenter Horsford William, farmer, Thorne The Cottage Connctt Mrs Mary cottage, Court Barton Northcote Rev George Barons, M.A., Coombe Jamos Plucknett, miller, Hussey James, surveyor, Honiton; h rector, The Rectory Feniton mills, Fenny bridges Sherwood cottage Perry John, shopkeeper Davey Mrs Mary Lansdown 1'11r Henry Joseph, Cole- Tongood George, farmer, Sherwood Davy Henry, shoemaker stocks farm Toogood Henry, yeoman, Cheriton hill Didham Wm. farmer, Yellanhams Liley "\Villiam, L. & S. W. station- Toogood. Wm. Richd. fmr. Curscombe Fry William, mason master, Sidmouth junction Wheaton Philip, yeoman, Lower Gore Rev William Francis, B. A. Lovering Wm. farmer, Colestocks Colesworthy (Episcopalian), Feniton court J'lanley Joseph, dairyman, Halls Gouldsworthy Mrs Charlotte Radford, Marks Edward, parish clerk and post- RAILWAY (L. J" S. W.)- Sidmouth victualler, Railway Commercial master Junction; Wm. Lilcy, smtion mastr FENN OTTERY. (See Venn Ottery.) • FILLEIGH is a parish in South :Molton union and county court district, South :Molton polling district of North Devon, petty sessional division, Barnstaple archdeaconry and South Molton deanery, and Braunton hundred. It had 370 inhabitants (175 males, 195 females) in 1871, living in 7 4 houses, on 2038 acres of land. Filleigh village is pleasantly situated 3t miles W. of South :Molton, and 8 miles E.S.E of Barnstaple. The Devon and Somerset Railway has a station in the parish, called Castle Hill. The parish, which is bounded on the east by the small river Bray, includes CASTLE HILL, a finely wooded park of about 826 acres, the seat of Earl Fortescue, who has another seat at Ebrington Hall, Glou cestershire. The grounds, and the old mansion of Castle Hill, were much improved about 1740, by Hugh Fortescue, Lord Clinton, who, in 1746, was created Earl Clinton and Baron Fortescue, and died without issue in 1751, when the earldom became extinct; but the Barony of ForteEcue passed to his half-brother, Matthew Fortescue, who died in 1785, and was succeeded by his son, Hugb, who was created Earl Fortescue and Viscount Ebrington, in 1789. The latter died in 1841, and was succeeded by his son, the late Right Hon. Hugh Fortescue, Earl Fortescue and Viscount Ebrington, K.G., who was lord-lieutenant and custos rotulorum of Devonshire, and Colonel of the East Devon Militia. He was born in 1783, and distinguished himself in the House of Commons, in the debates on Parliamentary Reform. He died September 14, 1861, and was succeeded by his eldest son, the present (third) earl. The large and handsome mansion of Castle Hill, which was altered and enlarged by the Earl in 1842, stands in the park, on a well wooded eminence, whose summit is decorated with the artificial semblance of a ruined castle, and commands a prospect of very considerable extent. The grounds in front of the house are disposed into various pleasing slopes, which gradually descend from the terrace. Across the valley the ground again rises, and the view is terminated by a handsome triumphal arch on the top of the hill. In the shrubbery are some remarkably large Portugal laurels, and a fine Douglasia and other firs. The Earl is lord of the manor of Filleigh, which formerly belonged to a family of its own name, in the reign of Henry II., and it afterwards passed with the heiress of the Densells to the Fortescues. The CHURCH (St. Paul) was rebuilt in 1732 by the £rst Lord Clinton and Baron Fortescue, and was restored and enlarged, at the cost of Earl Fortescue, in 1877; it is of Norman architecture, with a Gothic aisle, and contains some good painted glass windows and other family monuments, A handsome brass lectern, a lectionary, a crimson velvet altar cloth, with kneeling cushions to match, and new alms dishes, have been presented by various friends. The Register dates from 1685. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of Earl Fortescue, and consolidated with that of East Buckland, as noticed at page 310. Here is a good rectory house, and 88t acres of glebe. The tithes of Filleigh were commuted, in 1839, for £97 per annum. The ScHOOL is on the South Molton road, about a quarter-mile E. of the church. It was commenced by the late and finished by the present Earl Fortescue as a memorial to the Hon. John Fortescue, who died in Madeira in 1859. The first Earl Clinton left £100 for the foundation of an almshouse. About 1810 the late Earl Fortescue built four dwellings, at the cost of £300, and gave them, with four gar dens, in lieu of the old alrnshouse, The poor parishioners have the interest of £27, left by various donors. PosT OFFICE at Mr. David Bale's, Castle Hill. Letters are received at 8.15 a.m., and despatched at 5.30 p.m., via South Molton, which is the nearest Money Order Office. Anstey George, miller, Filleigh mill Bale Misses Elizabeth & Mary J ane, Brewer John, land agent and solicitor Austin Thomas, schoolmaster dressmakers to Earl Fortescue, Church villa :Bale Da.vid, grocer & postmaster Braund George, farmer, Barton Courtenay Wm. fa.rmer, East Heddon .

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