DIRECTORY. J DEVONSHIRE. NORTH MOLTON.. 335 Rendle George, baker, Galpin street Shute Samuel, carpenter & undertaker, Treeby John, miller( water),Swan brdge Rickman JohnHy.saddler,Brownston st Brownston Triggs Jn. marble mason, 9 Church st Rogers George, farmer, East Leigh Skinner James, dairyman, Church st Tucker William, wheelwright, Church st Rogers Richd. farmer, Croppins Combe Smerdon Robert; farmer, Coombe Wakeham Agnes (Miss), dress maker, Rogers William Langworthy, solicitor Smith James, hawker, Poundwell st Church street & commissione-r for administering Stidston Jas. Alfd.farmr.Lit.Orcberton Wakeham Richard, mason, Back street oaths, Brownston street Sullivan Cha~les Henry, stationer & Watts Harry, tailor, Brownston street Sambell Alfred, farmer, Shilston printer, Church street WberryWm.insurance agent,r I Broad st Sbepheard J ames, solicitor's clerk, 8 Taylor Gilbert, farmer, Shearlangston Wyatt George, farmer, 'frehele Brownston street Taylor Joseph, draper, ro Broad street Wyatt Hy. Wm. butcher, Brownston st Sherrill Edwin, farmer, Stockenhridge Tiddy David Geo.apartments,Church st Wyatt Saml. inn,Brownston st Sherrill Josiab, farmer, Little Modbury Treeby Georger Bell P. H. Broad street

MOLI,AND is a parish and village bounded ou the south lectureship ; this sum is now assigned to augment the salary by the river Yeo, with a station called Bishop's Nympton of a resident curate, but oue has not yet ( r8g3), I:Jeen and , 2 miles south-west from the village, on the appointed. There are two mines in this parish; one is filled Somerset and branch of the Great Western railway, with water and the other is worked for iron, manganese and 193 miles from London by the Great Western railway and copper by a private company. West Molland House, about 7 north-east from South Mol ton, in the Northern division a mile from the village, is a fine old mansion, long the seat of the county, hundred, petty sessional divi­ of the Courtenay family, but now occupied as a farm by sion, union and county court district, rural deanerytof South Messrs, William and John Herbert Turner: over the entrance Molton, archdeaconry of . and diocese of . is a shield of arms with the following inscription-" This The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone in the is the Armes of Hugh CourteJty, sometimes Earl of Devon, Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north who was Grandfather unto Sir Philip Courteny of Molland, aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower contain­ knight: " Sir Nicholas William George Throckmorton hart. ing a clock and 6 bells : in the church is a memorial to the D.L. 1 J.P. of Buckland, Faringdon, Berks, is lord of the manol' Rev. D. Barry B.D. some time vicar of this parish and and the principal landowner. The soil is variable, clay being , who was persecuted for his attachment to the in the south of the parish only ; subsoil, old red sandstone cause of Charles I. and died in 1683, ~ed 45 : there are 220 and skillett. The land is chietly in pasture. The area is sittings. The register ;dates from the year 1541. The 6,168 acres; rateable value, £3,170; the population in 1891 living is a vicarage, united with that of Knowstone, average was 532, · tithe rent-charge £491 ; net yearly value £493.o with 54 Sexton, William Bede. acres of glebe, in the gift of Sir N. W. G; Throckmorton PosT OFFICE.-Miss .Angelina Gough, sub-postmistress. hart, and held since 1853 by the Rev. John Mattbews B.A. Lettel'S through South Molton arrive at ro. 10 a. m.; dis­ of Exeter College, Oxford, who resides at Knowstone. Here patched at 3 p.m. North Molton is the nearest money order are meeting rooms for Wesleyans, Bible Christians and the office & South Mol ton the nearest telegraph office. Postal Brethren. There is a charity of £27 a year, £4 of which is orders are issued here, but not paid - for the education of eight poor children, left by Thomas Railway Station, Frederick Vowles, station master Clarke in 1776, who also bequeathed the impropriate tithes Parochial School (mixed), enlarged in r883, for 100 chil~ of the parish, commuted at £roo yearly, to establis}l a dren; average attendance, Bo; Samuel J. Case, master

COMMERCIAL. EldridgeMary(Ml's. ),farmr.Abbott's pk Nicholls William, farmer, Landco.nbe Beer John, carpenter Elworthy John, farmer, Beer Pook Philip, tailor Brayley James, blacksmith Elworthy John, farmer, Gourte Quartly Henry, farmer, Brimley Brayley Sarah J ane (Mrs.), miller ElwQrthy William, farmer, I<'ord Quartly John, farmer, Great Champsoo (water) & farmer, Wade mill Gough John, blacksmitb. Sinkings Jose ph, farmr. Mid d. Champson Buckingham Wm. farmer, Lyshall Gough John, farlOer, Northgowue Sloley William, farmer, Hill farm Buckingham Wm. wbeelwright,EastLee Gough William, blacksmith Smith Charletl, shoe maker Bucknell Wm. farmer, Brimblecombe Hill William, farmer, Cuckoo Snow Abel, mason CockramAnn(Mrs. ), farmr .Little Woods Hodge William, farmer, East Barton Snow John, mason Cockram Francis, farmer, West Barton Kingdom Ann (Mrs.), London inn Snow Thomas, mason Cockram Fl'8nk, farmer, Great Woods Lock William, wheelwright Tapscott James, farmer, Park Cockram John, farmer, West Lee Loosemore John, farmer,Lit.Champson Tucker Charles, grocer Cole J n, farmer, Middle Lee & East Lee Manning John1 farmer, West park Turner Wm. & John Herbert, farmer.;;, Cole William, farmer, West Bommer Mogridge Joseph, shoe maker West Molland house Counter George, shopkeeper Mogridge Richard, farmer, Bowchurch VennJ ohn1 miller( water), Bottreaux mill Dart Philip, New inn, & butcher Molland Iron & Manganese Mining Co. Williams George John, agent to Sir N. Dart Thomas, farmer, Luck worthy (John Hampton, purser; ;Tohn Bray­ W. G. Throckmorton bart. D,L., J.l'. Dart William, farmer lay, captain), Brimley Money hole Drake William, farmer, Pulworthy Nicbolls George, tailor

NORTH MOLTON is a parish and long straggling gross yearly value £240, including 36 acres of glebe, with village, seat-ed on the side of a hill on the borders of Exmoor residence, in the gift of Lord , and held sin~ r887 and on the river Mole, from which it derives its name, 2§ by the Rev. HAnry Marshal! Burdett M. A. of Queens' College, miles north-east from South Molton station on the Devon Cambridge. The impropriate tithes are commuted at and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway and 12 £1,293 for North Molton and £2u for Twitchen, and there east from Barnstaple, in the Northern division of the county, 18 an impropriate glebe of 51 acres. There is a Wesleya.n South Molton hundred, petty sessional div-ision, union and chapel in the village, built in r891, and another at Heasley; county conrt district, rural deanery of South 1\t:olton, arch· a service is held in the Board 11choolroom deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. 'I' his parish at Heasley on Sundays, at;. 3 p.m. A social club, established is the second largest in Devon. 'fhe church of All Saints, in r88t for the benefit of residents, comprises reading and standing on an eminence, is a building of stone in the Per- recreation rooms supplied with daily and weekly pa.~ers. · pendicular style, consisting of chancel with chapels, clere· The pa.rochial library contains over 400 volumes. In the storied nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled parish are several mines, ll.t one time worked for copper, iron, western towe~ roo feet high, witb pinnacles, and containing silver, lead and gold, tl"d.Ces of which were met with about a clock and 6 bells : there is a carved oak -screen and a fine 1840. This parish has long been celebrated for its breed of font of Perpendicular date with an octagonal basin, richly North Devon cattle. A cattle fair is held on the first Wed­ arcaded, on a shaft adorned with canopied niches containing nesday aftel' May 12th and the last Wednesday in October. effigies: the pulpit is of oak, elaborately carved with figures The District Nursing Association here is managed by a local of saints~ on the south side of the tower, under !l canopy, is committee, under the presidency of Lady Poltimore- There a large figure of the Virgin and Child: in the south aisle is are almsbouses for six poor people, founded by Mr. Parker, a memorial window to William Davy: in the JSouth chapel and various bequests for the benefit of the poor, amounting­ is an altar-tomb of alabaster to Sir Amiss Bampfylde, erected to £,20 yearly, In 1893 the late M1'8. Maria Langdon be­ in r626 by John Bampfylde1 his son, with effigies of himself, queathed £roo to the vicar and churchwardens, the inteTest his dame, !12 sons and 5 daughters, and a long genealogical of which is to be given to the poor, and in the same year inscription in Latin : during the period 1876·S3, the galleries M11. Lane, of Highgate, London, gaV8 £,5oo, the Interest to be were removed, the organ placed in the north chancel chapel also given to the poor. There are also and land in and a warming appa.ratus pu1i in, a.t a cost of over £,100 : the hands of feoffees for the repair of the church ; new the church was restored in 1885 a~ a cost of £590, but the feoffees were appointed in 1893. Court Hall is the ~~eat of arcades are still much out of the perpendicular: there are the Rt. Hon. Lord Poltimore P.C.,D.L.,.J.P.lord of the manor 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1539. The and chief landownel". Caurt House was formerly the pro­ living is a vicarage, with !.hat of Twitcbea annexed, joint perty of the Earl Morley, but is now occupied as a farrtt • •