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DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. BARYSTAPLE. 47 Turner William, Oa.stle inn Vicary Richard, butcher, Newton 11q Weston William, tailor, 3 & 4 Brook st Venn Wm. beer retailer, Newton sq Warren Henry, gardener to John Robt. Williarns William, Wonham Barton Volunteer Battalion (3rd) Devonshire Holland esq. Wonham Wood Sydney, shopkpr. 13 Newton sq · Regiment (C Oo. Capt. Hugh Webber John, farmer, Diptford Wright Goorga, farmer, Rowes farm Leonard Acland-Troyte; Sergt.- Wabber Robert Salisbury, insurance Yandla Thomas C. farmer, Duvale :Major Jn. Todd, drill instrucwr), agent, 16 Brook 11t.reet Yeo Joseph, picture framt: ma.Luke s~ .Armoury & Drill hall, Briton st Wensley Thos.Froilt, frmr. Birchdown BARNSTAPLE. BARNST.AFLE is a 1mb-port in North Devon of tho registered as belonging to the port at the same date. Briswl district, and a municipal borough, head of a These employed 49 men and boys. union, county court district 'cl.nd parish, in the North As a borough it is o! very early date, being 8<l styled Western division of the county, Braunt<Jn hundred and in Domesday, when there were 40 burgesses within the petty session-al division, rural deanery and M"chdeaconry borough and 9 without; it appears to have received its of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter, :.JII miles from first chartea." from King .A.thelstan, and others from London by London and South Western railway viA Henry I., John, Henry VI., Mary and James I. by who~e Exeter, and 203! miles by Great We11tea-n railway via charteT it continued to be governed until the p~Hlsing of Taunton, 39 mile" from Exeter, 75 by rail from the Municipal Corporations .A.ct, 1835 (5 and 6 William Plymouth, II by road and 14 by rail from Dfr!i<Xlmbe, IV. c. 76): the body C()rporate is now styled the 9 :fu-om Bideford ~nd 14 from Torrington, 44! from '' Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses o! the Borough and Taunton, and Io! from South Molton by Great Western Parish of Baa-nstaple," and consi.lits of a mayor, six railway. There is a terminal 11tation here of the Devon aldermeru "nd eightoon councillors : the town is divided and Somerset branch of the Great Western system from for municipal pnrpo&e!! int<J two wards, North and South_ Taunton, and a station on the branch of the South The municipal borough includes Newport (formerly Wc1o1tern line from Yc.oford Junction to llfracombe and part of the pa.riih of Bishop's Tawton), a pa.rt of the Torrington: the II'ailway stations IU'e just without tha parish of Pilton and RoUe's Quay, which was added by iown, the Great WiJstern on the east and the London the Boundaries .A.ot (31 & 32 Vie. cap. 46). The borough and South We,!ltern on the south: there is also a has a commission of the pell.Ce and .separate court of station for the latter on the quay called the "Tovrn " quarter sessions. Barnsta.ple returned two members to !lllbstion. A narrow gauge :railway, 19! miles in length, Pa.rliament :from the ~3rd year of King Edward I. WM opened for May nth, 18gB, between· Barnstaple and (1294-5) until the pasiling of the "Rooistribution of Lynton. The town is pleasantly situated in a valley Seats .A.ct, x885," when the representation of the borough on the north oonk of the river Taw, and is well built, 'Wail merged into that of the county. with wide and cleanly stroot, lighted with gas by a The parish church of SS. Peter and Paul, standing private company from works in the Barbican, and is nearly in the oentre of the town, is an ancient edifice of so.pplied with water from a sbream Ti~ing above Chelfam stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel with bridge, in Shirwell parish ; there are two reservoirs, aisleii, nave, aisles, fl.nd a tower on the south iide con· one at Raleigh Park, in the parish of Pilt-on, the other taining a clock and 8 bells, 3 of which are outside the at Pickards Down, Barnstaple tower: 1ihe 11tained eaBt window was erect-ed in 1854 and Ba.rnstaple bridge, gilnerally supposed to have been the west window wa!l presented by the parishioners in erected about th~ 12th or 13th century, is a fine remembrance of the recovery of the Prince of Wales struoture of 16 arches, and wa!! widened in 1834: the from feve:l' in December, 187r; there are also otheT& to maintenance and repair are provided far by many be­ Mr. Lee R . .A.. and to R. Bremridge esq. formerly quests made in trust for that purpot~e: the Bridge member of Parliament for the borough: amongst the estates are managed by 1\ body of trnst~es, and produce numerous monuments is one erected in mamory ot his an annual income of £700. 11on by the Rev. W. Blake, tlle ejected incumbent during Barnstaple is a Ou.stoms port, the limits being defined the Oommonwealth :- the reredos and othm- carved work under 9 and ID Vict. c. 102; the eastBrn boundary is a is by Hems, of Exeter: there is a large and fine-toned small stream running into the Bristol Channel at a place organ, the gift of Sir Goorge .A.myand: attached to the called "Glenthorne," which divides the counties of ohurch waa a. pall"ochial library, founded by John Dodd­ Devon and Somerset, and is near the headland called the l'idj'Q esq. and now meri:ed in \hat of the North Devon "Foreland" (being the western limits of the port of .A.thenreum. The church was restored during the Bridgwa.ter), and the limits of the port extend thenoo in period 1866-82, at a cost of £4,000, under the direction a westerly direction along the coast of the county t.o of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. and his son, and the point of land called '' Morte Point," and thence in ha~~t 11itbings for about goo people. The churchyard was a direct line across Ba,rnstaple and Bideford Bay to levelled by Order in Council, July 13, 186g. The "Hartland Point," and in a southerly and south-westerly registers date from the year 1538, and are perfect, direetion along the coast9 of Devon and Cornwall to excepting during five years of the civil war. The living Dazard Point, in the parish of St. Germy's, in C-ornwall is a vicarage, yearly value £2.50, including £2o annually (being the northern limit of the port of Padstow) ; saa­ from Stanbury's 1beque!!t, in the gift of the Earl of w~d from low-water mark the aforesaid limits extend Whamoliffe, and held since r889 by the Rev. Thomas :from a line drawn from Morte Point to Hartland Point. Newton ld ..A.., LL.D. of Trinity College, Dublin, and and include both sides of the river Tavr. and all other chaplain of Barnetaple Union. rivers, bays, hi:lll'bours, creeks and pills within the &fore­ Holy Trinity is an eccleBiastical parish, formed in said limits ; Lundy island, in the Bristol Channel, and 1846. The original chUtrch of the Holy Trinity, at th~ the 8ea tmrrounding to a distance of three miles from ll<Juth end of the town, begun in r843 and cDmpleted in low-water mark form paii't of the .said port of Barnstaple. 1847, was originally an edifice of stone in the Perpen­ The trade of the port is very small, the only 'import dicularr style, from the designs of Mr. Mackintosh. bein~ timber from Norway, Sweden, Canada. and U.S. architect : owing to a subsidence Df the foundations, t.h~ .America. The total imports for the year I<fO_O was cha.ncel arch gave way, and the whole edifice being £oo,ooo. There is also a. coasting irade in coal from taken down,· was re-erected on a somew~at diffeu-ent plan, South Wales and a little general merchandise from after designs by Mr. W. White, of London, in 1867: the Ireland: the number of vessels cleared at Ba:rnstaple in church now consists of apsidal chancel with south aisle, 1goo was 959, and the tonnage 54,932 . cle:restoried nave of four bays, with narrow aisles, vestry .A.ccOII'ding to the officiar returns of the Navigation and and organ chamber, and an embattled tDwer on the ~hipping of the United Kingdom for 1900, the number llOuth side 125 feet high with pinnacles and carved work. of lllliling and ste.am vessels in the genm·al coasting by Hems, and oontaaning 2 bells: five of the windows trade that entered the port of Barnstaple, including- their 8II"8 11tained, and th·ere are 450 sittings. The register repeated voyages, was 2,804 of 176,815 tons, the number dates from the yoor 1847· The living is a vicarage. clea.red being 2,904 of 185,r68 tonnage. In the trade net yearly value £48, with residence, in the gift of the betJ:ween Great Britain and Ireland, 57 ve8sels only entered Bishop of Exeter, and held since I<fOI by the Rev. of 3•441 tonnage. Charles William Herbert Kenrick M . .A.. of Brasenose In the trade wi<th Britislh possessions and ,foreign College, Oxford. oonntries, 12 vessels entered of 4,172 tons. The number St. Mary Magdalene is an ecclesi~tica.l parish, foimed of vessels treg:istered under Part I. of the Merchant Silpt. 14• 1844; the church, which is at the upper end Shipping Act, 1894, as belonging to the port, 31 of Bear street, is a building of stona erected in r 846, in December, rgoo, was 43 of 1,910 tonnage.

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