• ..., . 626 POUGHILL, DEVONSHIRE .. [KELLY'S I
esq. Robert Bradfor~ esq. the Pyncombe trustees, Mre. Post Offi.ce.---Mrs. Fanny Maria Thomas, sub-postmis \ Lyle, Samuel Trhde esq. and William Tuckett esq. are tress. Letters through Crediton. Cheriton-Fitzpa.ine, 'the principal landowners. The soil is loam and clay; · 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tela- the subso.il)s clay. The chief Grops are wheat, oats and graph ofli..>e roots. The area is 1,735 acres; rateable value, £1,815; School (mixed), for 47 children; Miss Emma Stanbury, the population in 19n: was 223. mistress A.rundell George William, Edbury Charming Robert, thatcher tMill~r Henry, farmer, Marsh Cola Mrs Down Wm. farmer, Partridge Hole National Deposit Friendly Society Gurney Rev. Waiter Burne LL.M. Gardiner A.lbert Jas. fap.mer,Newland (Percy John Pike,· local sec) Rectory Gibbons George, farmer Pike Francis, carpenter & shopkee1>er Miller ~athaniel, Barton Headford A.lbert, Rose & Crown P.H Roberts Albt. Wm.farmer, Broadridge COMMERCIAL. · Lake George, carpenter Roberts Thomas, farmer, Cross Narked thus t farm 150 acres or over. Manning Charles James, manure & tSaunders John (Mrs.), farmer, • Arthurs Geo. (Mrs.), frmr. The Mill seed merchant, Mount Pleasant WeHsbere Barton
A.rundell Geo. Fredc, frmr.Riggledwn Miller Frederick & William, farmers, Trude Frederick, farmer, South Yeo • tBickley Waiter, farmer & landowner, Barton Wailer Thomas, farmer Penhay . PO WBERHAM is a parish and:village opposite Lymp- War was garrisoned for the King: in Dec. 1645, it was un stone1 on the river Exe, 2 miles north-west from Star- successfully attacked by Fairfax, but was taken by Col. cross station on the South Devon section of the Great Hammond in the following year ; the most ancient portion Western railway and 7~ sonth from Exeter, in the Tiver- now extant is built of limestone, with a mixture of red ton division of the county, Exmihster hundred, Won- conglomerate and of a white material locally called "Ex ford petty sessional division, St. Thomas union, county mouth stone:" the castle appears to have originally con court district of Exeter, rural deanery of Kenn and arch- sisted of a long parallelogra.m flanked at different parts deaconry and diocese- of Exeter. The church Gf St. of its length by six towers, four of which are .still Clemeht is an ancient edifice of red sandstone in the standing; . the fabric has of late years been much Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, with aisles of modernised, but the ancient battlements and windows equal length, nave, aisles, north vestry, south porch and which have survived the alterations sufficiently indicate • an embattled western tower containing 6 bells, dated the original character of the whole; the interior has very respectively 1676, 1696 and 1764, the remaining three spacious rooms, containing some good family portraits, being added in 1•888, at a cost of £ui: the oak pulpit many of which are by old ·masters: the adjoining was presented as a thank-offering by Col. Francis Hay- park of upwards of _.aoo acres in well wooded and garth in 1881: an organ was erected in 1878: on the stocked with deer. The Courtenays, earls of Devon, have n(!rth wall is a. modern -brass to the Rev. Daniel Nantes, been seated in Devonshire near'ly 70\) years: one b1ancb s-s~-years rector here, d. July u, 1877: under a low arch of the house of Courtenaywere countt! of Edessa; aucther in the north wall of the chancel is the recumbent effigy .A..D. nso, became allied t{) the Royal Family of France, t>f a lady in tight-fitting dress, covered by a mantle, and and through this alliance three mf'llll bers of the family wsaring a square plait-ed head-dress : the nave of the occupied the illllperial throne of Constantinople A.D~ church and one of the aisl!!s were erected by Sir William 1204: in England the Courtenays have been allied to the Oourtenay and Margaret (Bonville), his wife, and on the Bonvilles, Bohuns, Spencers, St.· Johns, Talbots, Veres piers are the arms of Courtenay, hnpaling BonvillP. and and the royal house of Plantagenet, and t-he name appears • Hungerford, with supporters: in the chancel · are in the original list of the order of the Garter: in the Wars memorials to Lady Harriet (Leslie), daught~r of Jane of the Roses they adhered to the Lancastrian party, and Elizabeth, suo ·jure countess of Rothes (by her 2nd in the reign of Henry VIII. Henry Courtenay, earl of husband, Sir Lucas Pepys bart.) and wife of William, Devon, was• created Marquess of Exeter, but this title toth ea,rl of Devon, d. x6 Dec. 1839, to the Earl himself, became extinct in 1556, and that of Earl of Devon, as d. 19 March, 1859, and a fine monument to Lady sumed to have lapsed at the same time, remained dormant Elizabeth (Fortescue), wife of the nth earl of Devon, d. until x831, when it was revived in favour of William, grd 27 Jan. 1867: there are also mem
-..._of Tavistock, archdeaconry of PI1mouth and diocese 1 Lydford, imilt in 1813, is a plain struclurtt of granite, of Exeter. This town was formed about ~8o8, soon after ~onsisting of nave, north porch and a -westel"n tower con- • '