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two barrows, is in this parish. An ancient inscrjbed Post, M. 0. & T. 0., Telephonic E-xpress Delivery &; stone, formerly standing in the village, js now in the Public Telephone Call Office, Yelverton (letters l!hould vicarage garden at Tavistock. The abbey of SS. Mary have Devon added). Harold Kitto, sub-postmaster and Benedict was founded here on the eastern bank Post Office, Milton.-Mrs. Louisa Dockett, sub-post of the Tavy in I278 by Amicia, widow of Ba.ldwin de mistress. Letters received through Y elverton, Devon,. Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon, for monks of the Cistercian 3 miles distant, which is the nearest telegraph office,. order and colonized from Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight; & Crapstone the nearest money order office the abbey was surrendered by John Toker, or Tucker, the last abbot, the revenues at the Dissolution being valued Post & Telegraph Office, Clearbrook. Joseph Spencer,. at £241 17s. gd. there being then I2 monks, besides the sub-postmaster. Letters through Yelverton, Devon,. ahbot. The site of the abbey church and monastic build which is the nearest money order office ings was granted 26th May, 154I, to Sir Richard 6-reyn Post, M. 0. & Public Telephone Call Office, Crap feld, or Grenville, kt. of Bideford, for a sum of £233 3s.4d. stone. Leonard Stone, sub-postmaster. Letters by Sir Richard Grenville in 1575 converted the abbey church foot post through Yelverton, Devon, which is th& into a mansion, andl sold it to Sir Francis Dmke in nearest tel~graph office 1580, in whose family it still remains; it is now called Wall Letter Boxes. Axtown Villas; Polvellan ; Highel"' • "Buckland Abbey," which incorporates the piers and Down; Railway station; Rock; The Brake & Hollybank. arches once supporting the central tower of the church: the house, surrounded by pleasant grounds, once the Public Elementary Schools. abbey orchard, contains some interesting relics of Sir Endowed (boys'), endowed with £12 IOS. yearly, convexea .Fraoois Drake, including a drum, and his portrait by • by Lady Elizabeth Modyford to trustees, by indentur& Jansens, dated 1594; a noble barn, 180 feet in length, with a profusion of buttresses, also remains, and adjoin dated 2nd March, 1702: it was repaired & re-endowed ing the stablE'.$ is a low tower of the Perpendicular period. in 185o by the late Right Hon. Sir Massey Lopes P.G. The abbey is now the residence of_ Major Lord Seaton .& will hold 76 children r William Joseph Baker,master- and Lady Seaton. Pound House is the property and This school is- controlled by six managers ; A.. P. Steer,. residence o{ the Rev. Waiter Champernowne M . .A.. Sir Eton cottage, Yelverton, correspondent Henry Yarde Buller Lopes bart. is lord of the manor Buckland Monachorum (girls & infants), erected in of Buckland Monachorum, and Lady Seaton is lady of :r859, at a cost of [400, & enlarged in 1897; it was the manor of Buckland Abbey. Lady Seaton, the Duke endowed by Francis Charles Hastings, late Duke ot of Bedford and the Rev. Waiter Champernowne M.A. Bedford, with the interest on [4o, £2 1os. per Cent_ are the principal landowners. The soil is various; Coii!Sols,. & will hold 93 children; Mrs. E., K. Baker,. subsoil, clay. The land is principally pasture. The mistress area is 6,685 acres of land, 30 of water alld ·8 of tidal This school is controlled by six managers; A.. P. Steer,. water; rateable value, £16,849; the population in n~oi Eton cottage, Yelverton, correspondent was 1,717, and in J9II, 2,050 in the civil parish and Miltoll.®mbe (infants), opened in 1893, for 40 children;, I,788 in the ecclesiastical parish. Mrs. L. Ho well, mistress Post Office, Buckland Monachorum. William Upcroft, This school is controlled by six managers; Rev. E. J. sub-postmaster. Letters through Yelverton, Devon, White M ..A.. Orapstone, Yelverton, correspondent which is the nearest telegraph office, 2 miles distant, & the nearest money order office is at Orapstone, Railway Station, Yelverton Junction, John Wyatt, sta I mile distant tion master
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