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Devonshire .. [Kelly's I • ..., . 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<Jrial windows to viscount Courtenay, who thereupon became 1oth earl of '-l'homas PeTegrine Collrtenay esq. d. 7 June, 1861, and to Devon. On an eminence in the park is a building called the Rev. Sir Henry Hugh, 13th earl, d. 29 Jan. 1904, to the "Belvedare,"'erected in 1777, and con$isting of three his wife Lady A.nna. Maria (Leslie), d. 18 Feb. 1897, and hexagonal towers, 70 fe-et in height, commandingmagni­ to his eldest son, Col. Lord Courtenay, d. 27 May, 18g8, ficent views of t'b.e surrounding country, the river Exe besides other stained windows and some remains of a -and the English Channel. The Earl of Devon is lord of carved oak screen: the church was thoroughly restored the manor and 'SOle landowner. The soil is loamy, • in ~861, chiefly at the cost of the nth earl of Devon, except in the higher p!Srt of the parish, where the red -when the chancer was lengthened and the interior sand commences. The chief crops are wheat, barley and reseate4: the :nave was repaired and the stonework turnips, but a large proportion is permabent pasture. re-pointed in 1908: a window in the north aisle con- The area is t,481 acres of land, 4 of water, 23 of tidal tains fragments of 15th century glass, rearranged in water and 170 of foreshore ; rateable value, £"5·492; 1906: there is a list of Tectors from 1258: there are population in 19II, 189. t6o sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the ' year 1575; marriages, 1559; burials, 1558. The living EXWELL, half a mile north-west, MELLA.NDS, I north, is a Tectory, net yearly value £377• including.. 98 acres and BLACK HEATH, tlalf a mile north-west, are places of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of here. Devon, and held since 1904 by the Rev. the Hon. Henry Parish Clerk and {)rganist, John Martin Trulove. _ Hugh. Courtenay. Powderh:Jm Castle, the family seat of the Courtenays, Earls of Devon, standing on the1 western Letters from Exeter through Kenton. Kenton is the bank of the estuary (}{ the Exe, is a structure in vaTious ·nearest inoney order & telegroph office, I mile distant 11tyles, erected .in_ the 1;4th century by Sir Philip Wall Letter Box Courtenay, lieutenant of Ireland: 1mtil about :the year Public Elementary School (mixed), enlarged in 1eas, 1700. it was very strongly fortified, and during the Civil for 40 children; Miss A.lice Sage, mistress • Devon Earl of J.P. Powderham, Watson Li~ut.-Col. Guy Hartley, Mc01aughlin Thomas Scott, ,boatman castle; & Carlton club,LondonSWI 1 Powderham rectory to the Earl. Boat house Courtenay Rev. The Hon.Henry Hugh COlJMEilCIAL. McClaughlin William, fisherman (rector) , Bolton Thomas H. head gardener to Mortimer Samuel, farmer, Exwell ThomasMajor Asc~nius William Nevill, 1 the Earl of Devon Pyle Edward, farmer, Blackheath . Mellands Hellins- George, works foreman Taylor Alexander, gamekeeper to the 1 P<Jwderham estate Earl of Devon PRINCETO WN is a >Small town and was formed Dartmoor Prison was built for prison~s of war, and was into a separate ecclesiastical pari!>h in 1912 from the i named after George IV. when Prince of Wales, Dartmoor civil parish of Lydford ; it is in the west quarter of bPing within the Duchy of Corn wall; several tradesmen Dartmoor, 7 mi!Bs east from Tavistock, with a station, and others then settled here: in .I8Ir there were as many forming the terminus of a branch from Yelverton, i as 9,000 prisoners of war; besides the gnard of Roldiery. on the South Devon section of the Great Western i After the peace Princetown much declined, until its re­ railway; thet town is in the Tavistock division of the viv~l b.etween 1831 and 1841 from the working of the county. Rob.orGugh hundroo, Tavistock petty sessional granite quarries in Dartmoor. The -church of St. ,:Michael • .division, union and county court distFict, rural deanery and A.ll Angels, formerly a chapel of ease to St. Petrock's. -..._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- • ' .
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