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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 8Barnstaple 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!iSouth 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!! intriver 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