DIRECTORY.] DEVON~H~RE. EAST BGDLEIUH. bridge. Here is a W esleyan chapel. Stoodley Manor above sea level, partly in this parish & partly in was the original seat of the Buckinghams ; it is now that of East Buckland : the school was founded in a farm. Earl Fortescue K.C.B. is lord of the manor 1858 by Hugh, 2nd Earl Fortescue K.G. & Prebendary and chief landowner. The soil is sandy; the subsoil is Brereton, to provide a public school education for boy-s skillet. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. · of the middle classes of this & the adjoining comities. The area is 2,592 acres; rateable value, £2,584; the The buildings, ereoted at a cost of £r2,ooo.. are population in 1911 was 442 in the civil and 362 in the adapted for the reception of 150 boarders, & attached ecclesiastical parish, including 125 in the West Buck­ are playing fields & shrubberies, covering about 27 land Schoof. acres .• The second! Earl Fortescue also gave £I,ooo By a Local Government Board Order, 16,344, which to endow a chaplain to the school, at the same came into operation March 24, 1884, a detached part uf time rebuildinQ" & enlarging East Buckland church Chittlehampton parish, known as Leary, was amalga­ for the use of the boys; the Shepherd Law seholar­ mated 'with this pa:r:ish for civil purposes. ship, value £26 per annum, & three Michael Sneir Sexton, Abraham Cockram. scholarships, value £4o a year, are tenable for 3 Post & M. 0. Office.-Mrs. Rachel Dallyn, sub-post­ y£ars at Oxford or Cambridge; Rev. Ernest Charles mistress.·. Letters through South Mol ton. Filleigh is 1 Harries M.A. head master & chaplain, with a com­ the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant petent staff of assistant masters ; Eastman E. Hod,e, Schools. secretary The West BuckJand School, formerly called Devon Public Elementary (mixed), built in r875, for 70 chil­ County School stands on high ground, 6so feet dren ;. Miss Amy Wyatt, mistress Darvill Hugh Douglas, West Buck- Barrow Wm. farmer, Hillier's Leary Rice Charles William, joiner land school Clatworthy Herbert, blacksmith Rice Emanuel Henry, tailor & boot dl:r Harries Mrs. E.C.West Buckland schl Cockram James Edwin, New inn Ridd Frederick,farmer, Leary Barton Harries Rev. Ernest Charles M.A. Cracker William, blacksmith Searle Samuel, thatcher West Buckland school : Dallyn .Alfred, jobmaster, Oxford ho Skinner Alex. frmr. Middle Stoodley Harries Rev. Frederick George B.A. I Dallyn Edwjn, farmer, The Hut Snell Thomas,farmer,West Bushtown (rector), Rectory 1 Dallyn Rachel (Mrs.),draper, Post off Stanbury Fred, gardener to Wes{ Howells Sam Elliott, West Buckland Davey Ernest, carpenter & whlwrght Buckland school school i Down Richard Eli3s, farmer, Gubbs Stone James, farmer, Middle hill Jakeman A. T. Middle hill I Heywood Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Thomas .Alfred, farmer, Leary Miles William Lancelot, Elwell Bri2'ht's Leary Thorne Thomas, farmer, Furze Tamlyn MissM . .A.West Buckland schl May Frederick, farmer, Leary Turner George, farmer,Stoodley no.rtb Taylor Mrs. E. C. Langholme Miller Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, West Buckland School (Rev. Ernest Taylor Adelbert, Langholme Stoodley south I Charles Harries M.A. head master Walmesley Miss E. M. West Buck- Marrish Frank, farmer, Bushtown & chaplain land school . Nott George, farmer, Witsford Whitefield John, farmer, May's Leary COMMERCIAL Parker Harriett Yeo (Mrs.), farmer, Yeo William, farmer, Home Barton Balment Joseph, farmer, East Gubbs I Indicombe · · · · BUCKS MILLS is an ecclesiastical paris~. formed . a small Wesleyan chapeL 'l!he interest of £I,ooo, left .April 29, 1862, from the civil parishes of Parkham and I by Mrs. Elwes, is fur medical aid to the poor, afforded Woolfardisworthy, and is on the coast of Bideford bay, under the direetion of the vicar; there is also the interest 1 S miles west from Bideford station on the Torrington of £10o. which is divided between the North Devon In­ branch of the London and South Western railway, in firmary and Bideford Hospital and the parish Clothing the Barnstaple division 1 of the county, Hartland Club. Walland Cary, the property and residence of hundred, Bideford petty sessional division, union and Philip F. Cary-Elwes esq. the principal landowner, is county court district, rural deanery of Hartland, arch- a modern mansion situated in beautifully-wooded deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The grounds on the shore of the Bristol Channel. 'J;he soil church oi St. Anne is an edifice of stone in the Early is heavy loam; subsoil, clay and rock. The chief crops English style, built and endowed by the late Mrs. E1wes, are roots and oats. The population in I9II wait 219. and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a tower · Sexton Henry Braund on the north side of the chancel, containing one bell : thP ' · tower was restored in 1 s,g 7 : there are 130 sittings. The Post & T. Office, Buck& Cross (letters s~ould have Devon register dates from the year I866. The living is 8 ~ddtld).-Mrl!. 'Msf't' Da.rk, su~postm1stress. Woolsery vicarage, net yearly value £ 203, including- 17 acrPs of 1s the nearest money or~er office glebe, with residence, in the gift of Philip Francis Cary- Wall Letter Box, Bucks M1lls ElweS" esq. and held since 1895 by the Rev. David Public Elementary School, for 6o children; Mis11 Daisy Hughes M . .A. of Queens' College, Cambridge. Here is E. Wager, mistress 'RUCKS MILI,S. 1 Harding John, aparts. Woodstock BUCKS CROSS. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Harding- Wm, Hy. farmer, Walland Braund Josiah, shopkeeper Cary-Elwes Philip, Walland Cary Smale Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), aparts Davey Bobert, tnaaon Hughes Rev. David M.A. Vicarage Vanstone Fred, temperance hotel Dayman .John Henrv, blacksmith 1 Vanstone Matilda (Mrs.), shopkeeper Goaman William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Moore Richard, jun. carpenter & Crews Thos. farmer, Bucks Barton I joiner. West Bucks EAST BUDLEIGH is a parish and village, with a pro aia: Johanne Raleyh Uxrs Waltr: I Rale Armig. station called " East Budleigh," on the branch of Que obiit ox die Mt>nsi Junii ano D .•. : " the church the London and South Western railway from rt-tains beRches with finely-carved ends, . displaying Tipton to Salterton. It is pleasantly situated in foliage, tracery and figures supporting shields of arms the vale of the Otter, 2 miles north-east from Budleigh of the Chiverston, Courtenay, St. Clere and Tidswell Salterton, which is on the sea coast, at the mouth of the families, and dating from 1534. a.nd there is a fa.ir estuary of the Otter, u miles south-east-by-east from I!Creen of five bays : the church was restored in 1885-7 Exeter, 6 north-east from Exmouth and 5 south-west-by­ at a cost of [.r,Ioo, when the galleries and the rooms west from Sidmouth, in the Honiton division of the in the tower, which dil!ifigured the west end and bwcked county, hundred of East Bndleigh, petty sessional divi­ up a fine window, were removed, and the whole of the sion of Woodbury, union of St. Thomas, county court west end and both aisles reseated in oak, the flooring district of Exeter, rural deanery of Aylesbeare and arch­ relaid throughout with Purbeck stone and s vestry deaconry and diocese of Exeter. The village is well and organ chamber built. In 1894 a carved oak pulpit, supplied with water, free of charge, through mains laid by Hems, of Exeter, and costing over [.2oo, was pre­ by the late Hon. Mark G. Kerr Rolle, at a cost of £320, sent.ed, and in 18g6 the west window was filled with and distributed through eight taps, provided by the in­ stained glass by the late Hon. Mark G. K. BoRe, both habitants at a cost of [23; a memorial stone. with in­ as memorials to the lato Mr. Lipscomb~ for 27 years scription, commemorating the Jubilee in 1887 of Her late agent for the Rolle estate. The register of baptisms Majesty Queen Victoria, .has been .erected in the village. dates from the year I555'; marriag-es, 1556; burials, The church of All Saints is an ancient edifice of stone, r562. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south value £28o, with residence and 9 acres of glebe, in porch and an embattled western tower containing a the gift of Lord Clinton, and field since r884 by clock and 6 bells. 5 being oast, apparentlv. in ,~<:<:: the Rev. William Frederick Green M.A. of Oriel and one added in 1875 : the chancel was repaired about College, Oxford. The great tithes are held by Lord 1853: in the nave is a tomb with floriated cross to Clinton, J. Askew Bell esq. Mrs. Howard and George Joan, ISt wife of Waiter Raleigh,. inscribed: "Orate Beloe Ellis esq. There is a Congregational chapel in .