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92 BRATTON CLOVELI,Y. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel A School Board o! .'i members was formed July 31, 1874; Post, S. B. & Annuity ~ Insurance Office.-Mrs. Matthew Davey, The Village, clerk to the board Agnes Palmer, sub-po.stmistress. Letten received from Board School (mixed), erected in 1877, for 140 children; Lew Down R. S.O. North Devon, thence to Bratton average attendance, 95; William More, mast~r; Mrs. Clovelly by foot post, at 7.40 a.m. ; dispatched 5 p.m Layoock, sewing mistress Bateman Hev. Gregory Climenson Hearn Philip Henry, farmer & land- PalmE'Jf James, farm bailiff to T. H. Assoc.K.C.L. Rec!Jory owner, Swaddledown Spry esq. Voasley Heath B. The Old Rectory He,ggn.don Samuel, farmer, Redst<me Pengelly .John, shoe maker Kenyan Slaney PercyRobt.Langworthy Higgins Oliver, tailor Pethick Thomas, farmer, Fursdon Manning Mrs. Eversfield Horrell George, news agent Phear James,saddler &> harness maker Hortop Henry & Son, whoolwzights & Pine Samuel, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. carpenters Roberts John, farmer, Brocksoombe A.bell Thomas, farmer, Headstone Hortop John, farmer, Brockscombe Roberts Hoger, blacksmith Andrew John, farmer, Reed Hortop Rosetta (Mllss), farmer, Brat- Sampson Samuel, miller (water~ Bailey John, farmer, East Banbury ton town Silliphant SL farmer, West Banbury fuealy Richard, farmer, Risdon Jackman Roger, farmer, Burrow Sleeman Grace (Mrs.), farmer, Ca.leho Brown Thomas, landowner & farmer, -!_ones Frederick, farmer, Wrixhill Smale Henry, shopkeeper Lower Voaden Lang Thomas, farmer, Brockscombe Smallacombe Jabez, poultry dealer Davey Matthew, boot & shoo maker Lovell Amelia (Mrs.), farmer, South Spry Richard, blacksmith, Grindhill Dawe William, farmer, Court Barton Barton Stacey Sbadrack, Clovelly hotel & frmr ~nnis Thomas, farmer, Broadcroft Lovell William, farmer, Menda \Vestlal>e Thomas, farmer, Grindhill Dingle David, farmer, Northcombe Luxton Richard, farmer, Breazle Wivell William, farmer, Burrow Gilbert Frank, farmer, Coombe park Maynard :rames, farmer, Blagrove Wood John, farmer, South Beazle Gorle Bros. farmers, Metberell tower Paige John, farmer, Moorstone :BRATTON FLEMING is a. parish with a village considerable inclosure of waste land took place. Capt. Sir standing on an acclivity, with a station (opened in 1897) Edward Chichester bart. C.B., O.M.G. of Youlston, who on the Lynton and Barnstaple railway iJ.nd is 7 miles east is lord of the manor, Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland north-east from Earnstaple, in the North Western division bart. Mr. W. C. Bowden and t~he rect()r are the chief of the county, Braunton hundred and petty sessional landowners. The soil is clayey; the subsoil is clay slate. division, Barnstaple union and cDunty court district, The greater part is grass land. The area is 5,888 acres rural deanery of Sherwill, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £5,492; the popu diocese of Exeter. At Chclfbam, in this parish, on the line lation in rgor was 5II· The hamlets are :-Haxton, IJ <Jf railway from Barnstaple to Lynton, opened Feb. 25, 1897, miles south; Benton, 2 miles· south-east; Leworthy, 2 is a viaduct built of Marland brick, and consists of eight miles east; Stowford, 3 miles north; Nigbtacot, I~ miles arches rising from stone piers, seventy feet above the road north; Chumwell, 1! mileS! south-west. way; it is about 400 feet long, and cost £6,500. There is Sexton, William Lavercombe. also a station at Cbelfham. The line in continuation between Bratton Fleming and Blackmore Gate crosses Post, T. 0., Teleg-raph, Express &l Paroel Delivery Office. six valleys, viz., Soutbcott, Nightacot, Specott, Hun -Ma.ry Warren, IS!Ub-postmistress. Letters through nacott, North Thorne and Westland Pound; at the last Barnstaple by rail received at 7.15 a.m. ; dispatched at there will be a station. The church of St. Peter 6.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, paid. The neare~t money order office is at Barnstaple consisting of chancel, nave, north ais:e, south porch and A School Board of 5 members was formed Jan. g, 1884; a western rower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, cast the Rev. Pbilip John Wodehouse M.A. rector, chair in 1792: there are 240 sittings. The register dates from man; William. .A.rtbur, clerk to the board the year 1673. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Board School (mixed & infants), built in 1840, & en-' larged in r885, for 130 children; average attendance, · £.5oo, including 250 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Caius College, Cambridge, and held since 1875 91; John Henry Baker, master; Mrs. Sarab Baker, ru; by the Rev. Pbilip John Wodebouse 11LA. late fellow of sistant mistress; Mis.s Florence Fortescue, infants' that college and rural dean of Sberwill. There is a Bap mistress tist chapel here and another at Stowford, and also one Railway Station, Edward Arthur Min~rn, station master for Bible Christians. There are six almshouses main Railway Station, Cbelfbam, John J. Baker, station master tained and built by public subscription. A fair is held Carriers to Barnstaple.-Wm. Bowden, tues. fri. & sat.; . <Jn the Igth of August yMrly for cattle. About r 840 a William Britton, jun. tues. fri. & sat Dnrridge William, Bellevue \Camp George, farmer, Lower Haxton Rice George, farmer, Ridgegate Chicesrter George, Cbelfham Crang Goorge, farmer, Haxton Middle Ridd Geo. farmr. Higher Kipscombe 1 Drewett Charles E. Sunnyside Dallyn John, farmer, Lower Kipscomb Ridd Thomas Dennis, yeoman, ?ar- Fanshawe Basil, Holywell, Gart Daniel Jabez, insurance agent sonage farm Rill Mrs Gammon John, farmer, Hunnacott Rowe John, farmer, HM:ton Do"\\n Wodehouse Rev. Pbilip John ~Il..A. Gill Henry, wheelwright Skinner Thomas, farmer, Cape Rectory Gill John, blacksmith Squire James, farmer, Brattondown Gill William, wheelwright Tallyn William, farmer, Rye park & COMMERCIAL. Hancock Edwin, mason Chumwill .A.rthur William. butcher & shopkeeper H~al William, farmer, Nightacot Tossell J ames, quarry proprietor & clerk t() school board Hill Albert, farmer, Town farm Tucker J obn, farmer, Stowford Baker Jn. farmr. TbeGrangeStud fm, Hill William, farmer, Higher Haxton Tucker Richard, farmer, Down Beard James, farmer, Nightacot Holmes John, farmer, Sbarland Tucker Richard, tailor Beard William, farmer, Stowford Hunt Thomas, farmer, Southacott Turner Wm. farmer, Chelfham Barton &wden \Villiam, carrier & farmer Hunt William, farmer, Oxen park Warren :Mary (Mrs.),shpkpr. Pent off Bowden \Ym. Crang, farmr.Nightacot Lavercombe Wm. & Jas. blacksmiths Watts William, shoe maker Hritton Henry, mason Lavercombe Ge-orge, tailor Vfebber George, carpenter Britton William, jun. carrier Parkhurst John, dairyman Welch John, miller,Bratton water mill Britton Wm. sen. farmer, Button farm Parkin John & Son, tailors Welch William Henry, White Hart P.H Brooks John, farmer, Fembam Pickard Abraham, farmer, Friendship vVoollcott Thos .. farmer, Barton acres Rurge James, farmer, Benton Pyke Goorge Henry, farmer, Beara Yendall Frederick, farmer, Spreycott Burge William, farmer, Leworthy Pyke Geo. Hy. jun. assist. overseer Yeo 1Villiam, farmer, New House BRAUNTON is a. parish and village, on the banks of porches and a tower on the south side with spire, oon a rivulet, with a station on the Ilfracombe branch of the taining a. clock and 8 bells : the nave has a panelled South Western railway, 2 miles from the coast and Taw oak roof of considerable span, repaired about 185o, and estuary, 5~ north-west from Bamstaple, 8 south from exhibiting on one of its panels a carved representation llfracombe and 217 from London, and is the head of the of a sow with a litter of pigs, alluding to a tradition that petty sessional division, in the N ortb \Vest~rn division St. Brannock, ·who preached Christianity here A.D. 300, oi. the county, Braunton hundred, Barnstaple union and was directed, in a dream, to build a church on the spot county court district and in the rural deanery and arch where be should first meet such a group: there is an deaconry of Earnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church interesting palimp8est brass, having on one side the effigy of St. Brannock is a large and ancient building of stone, of a knight in bascinet and camail, c. 12oo, and on the in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting other the effigy oi1 a lady kneeling at a prie-dieu; this of chancel and nave and transepts, north and south is inlaid above a step~d . cross incisecl in a. large stone .