652 STRETE. DEVONSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

"Sea. Henry Limbrey Toll esq. B.A., J.P. and the Right Wallis, sub-postmaster. Letters through Dartmouth, Hon. Charles Seale-Hayne P.C., M.P. of Kingswear, are arrive at 8.45 a.m. k 5·55 p.m.; dispatched at 5·55 the principal landowners. The population in 1901 _was p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. 374· Stoke Fleming, 3 miles, & Slapton, about 2! miles Sexton, Edward Wills. distant, are the nearest money order offices Voluntary School (mixed), built in r83g, for go children; Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office.-Ernest Jas. average attendance, 52; Waiter Light, master

l'IDVATE RESIDENTS. Toll Mrs. Sea cliff Mitchell CharlotteMelinda (Mrs.), grm­ Bonsall Rev. Isaac (incumbent & surro- Webster Francis, Ores tone Oldreive Lewis Nathaniel, farmer, gate) Young Edward Herbert, Sil-Amn- Lancombe Bourne Robert, Summer hill chad-Ha Perrin Wm. John, King's Arms P.H Brown Edward Curtis, Retreat COMMERCIAL. Prowse Jas. Wills, farmer, Southwood Cleland Richard Brown, Vale cot Buckpitt John Foale, farmer, Fuge Trant Henry & Son, farmers Foss Miss, Brockhal lodge Edgcomba William, builder Trowt Edward Jas. baker & grooor Haines Jn. Thos. Augustus M.A.Penlee Elliott Joseph Steer, blacksmith Wallis Charles, carpenter & undertaker Lawday Charles Jas. Rowell, Sea.oroft Foale Edwin, farmer, Fuge house Wallis Ernest Jas. shopkpr. Post office Nelson Miss, Brockhal lodge Foale William J ames, butcher Widdicombe John, farmer 'Packe Miss. Asherne Hyne Richard, butcher Wills Edwa:rd, builder & contractor Pawsey Arthur, Higlulr Asherne Ingram Richard, farmer, Southwood Wills Halloash, mason Toll Henry Limbrey B.A., J.P. Manor Lawday Chas. Jas. Rowell L.F.P.S. & Wills Robert, shoe maker house L. M. Glas. surgeon, Seacroft SUTCOM:BE is a parish and village 6 miles north from in the chancel display the arms of the ancient family of le Holsworthy station, on a branch of the London and South Cornu; the bench ends are richly adorned with shields of Western railway, in the Western division of the county, arms of the De Esse, Giffard, Prideaux, Speecott, Dennis, Black Torrington hundred, Holsworthy petty sessional Wyke, Spencer, and other families, and with panels and division, union and county court district, rural deanery ot shields bearing various monograms : the east window is Holsworthy, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese ot stained: there is a pisc:.Ua in the chancel and one in the .Exeter: the river Waldon flows through the parish and south chapel: the principal part of the church is paved with is erossed by a stone bridge of one arch. The church of ancient tiles : the restoration of the church, partially ef­ .St. Andrew is a very ancient building of stone, in the fected in 1876 under Messrs. Bodley and Garner, architects, Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north was continued in 188g under the direction of Mr. R. M.. and south chapels, north aisle and a small western tower, l<~ulford and Messrs. Tait and Harvey, architects, of restored in 1899 at a. cost of £280, and containing Exeter, at a cost of £720: it affords about 150 sittings. 3 -bells, dated respectively 16n, 1720 and 1732: there The register of bapti-sms and marriages dates from the is a plain Norman doorway and some remains of a year 1685 ; burials, 1684. The living is a rectory, net beautifully carved oak rood screen, restored under the yearly value £220, including 50 acres of glebe, with direction of Mr. R. Medley Fulford, architect, and a residence, in the gift of 'Mrs. Jane Ravenhill, and held .Jacobean pulpit: in the north chapel are flat stones bear­ since r8go by the Rev. William Henry Ravenhill. Here ·ing the arms of Prideaux and inscriptions to Hnmfrey are Bible Christian and Wesleyan chapels. Sir W. Frideaux of Soldon esq. ob. 15 March, r6g2 ; Ann, his Morice's charity of about £68 yearly is for the support of daughter and heir, ob. 8 March, 17oi; and John Prideaux inmates of the .six almshouses in this parish. There is of Soldon esq. her husband, ob. 16 June, 1706; Peter Pri­ no manor. The principal landowners are the trustees deaux, ob. Dec. 3, qn, and Katherine (Kelland) his wife, of the late W. Yeo esq. The soil is light loam; subsoil, -ob. ro April, 1706; in the south or Theuborough chapel clay and stone rubble. The chieof crops are oats and are similar imcriptions with arms, to Thomasine (Hengs­ wheat. The area is 2,872 acres of land and 6 of water; -cott), 1st wife of Nicholas Prideaux, gent. ob. r6 Aug. rateable value, £r,44r; the population in 190r was 281. 1573; Humfery Prideaux of Hankford, gent. ob. q April, By Local Government Board Order, r4,6go, a detached "1664; Jonathan Prideaux of Theuborough esq. and Ann part of this parish known as Little Sutcombe was trans­ (Clark) his wife; Charles Da.vie of Bideford esq. ob. 11 ferred to Pancrasweek, March 24, 1884. July, 1742; and Frances Prideaux his wife, ob. 15 Jan. Sexton, Samuel Gerry. 1:764: this aisle or chantry, possibly dedicated to St. Post Office.-Richard Hockin, sub-pv~tmaster. Letters Leonard, was probably founded and endowed by the family through Holsworthy, week days only, arrive at 7.25 of De Esse, the ancient possessors of Theuborough, whose a.m.; dispatched at 5·5 p.m. Postal orders are issued arms appear on th·J bosses of the nave and over the altar in here, but not paid. The nearest money order & tele­ the chantry, the east window of which contains five shields graph office is at Bradworthy, 3 miles distant of arms, i:Justrating some descents and alliances of the A School Board of 5 members was formed November 26, Giffards ; the capitals of the granite piers of the north r874; John Furse, jun. Holsworthy, clerk to the board arcade, dating from the 16th century, bear the arms of Board School (mixed), built in 1876, for 70 children; aver­ Prideaux, Hody and Spencer; and the easternmost bosses age attendance, 55 ; Samuel Penwarden, master '!Janbury Mrs. Millbrook cottage Bartlett Thomas, farmer, New house Gilbert Thomas, shopkeeper Eraund Rev. Thomas (Bible Christian), Britwn Charles, farmer, Langadon Ham Alht. blacksmith, Sutcombe mill Thuborough Carter J oseph, farmer, Matcott Hockin Richa.rd, tailor, Post office Greig Octavius, Thuborough house Cawsey John, farmer, Upcott Hodge Richard, shopkeeper Ravenhill Rev. Wm. Henry, Rectory Cawsey Sarnuel Thomas, farqler, .Tenkins Thos. frmr. North Lane farm South lane & West Brendon Jones John, farmer, Highborough COMMERCIAL. Cole Thomas, farmer, East Brendon J ones William, carpenter Allin Daniel, farmer & miller (water) Daniel Frederick, farmer, Upcott Jones William Hy. boot & shoe dealer & sawing mill Davey Thomas, shoe maker & apart- Millman Thos. farmer, West Paddon Allin Norman, farmer, Thuborough ments Mountjoy Edmund, farmer & land- Ba.rton Fi~hleigh Robert, farmer, landowner owner, Sutcombe Mill farm Allin Wm. farme-r & landowner, Town & cattle dealer, Errst Paddon Parsons Samuel, builder, Hollands .Ayre W:m. blacksmith, Sutcombe mill Fry John, farmer & mil1er (water), Stacey Frederick, farmer, Lutson Baker James Hv. farmer, Hawkwill • 'l'huborough mill Walter Rt. farmer & Iandowner,He:idLm 13a.rtlett Bryant, farmer & landowner, Furse Charles Henry, farmer, Billhole Wir.kett Brothers, farmers, Northcot New house G erry Samuel, shopkeeper • SUTTON-ON-PLYM, see Plymouth. SWYM:BRIDGE (or Swimbridge) is a parish and vi!- aisle, south porch and a western tower of the Decorated lage seated in a hoeow surrounded by hills, and on the period, with spire, and containing a clock and 6 bells, all road from Tiverton and South Molton to Barnstaple, with cast in 1753. by William Evans, of Cbepstow: on the a station on the Devon and Somerset branch of the Great south side of the chancel is St. Bridget's chantry chapel, \-Vestern railway, and is 4~ miles east-south-east from built by the Mules family, of Ernesborough: the bosses Barnstaple and 204 miles from London, in the North of the roof are adorned with emhlazoned shields of the ·western division of the county, South Molton hundred, D'A.bernon, Denys, Cary, Mules and Orchard fami:ies and Braunton petty sessional division, Barnstap~e union and it has a stained window: the north aisle was built by Sir county court district, rural deanery of Sherwi:I, arch- John Moeles, or Mules, whose family, a younger branch deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of the Lords Moels, were for some generations seated at of St. James is a fine building of stone in the Late Per- Ernesborough, now called Irishhorough, in this parish: pendicnlar sty!e, consisting of chancel with aisles, north there are several monuments and memorial on copper to transept. which retains an ancient piscina, nave, north the Chichester and other families, and a stone pulpit,