til2 ROBOROTTGH. DEVONSHIRE. ( KELLY'S handsome modern building, pleasantly situated. The 4· ro p.m. Postal orders are issued here. but not paid. lord of the manor and the Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle Bea.ford is the nearest monev order office & telegraph are ihe chief landowners. The soil is clayey; sub;roil, office, 3 miles disrtant stone. The chief crops are cereal. The area is 3,2I2 Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1854 & en- acres; rateable value, £2,I70; the population in Igor larged in 1872, for go children; average attendance, was 312. 67; & supported in part by a legacy of £-z..;o bequeathed Post Office.-Edwin Pincombe, sub-postmaster. Letters by Miss Maria Horndon in I858; the managers are arrive at 10 a.m.· from Beaford R.S.O.; dispatched at the rector & churchwardens; Waiter Pritchard, master Batson Thomas J.P. Ebberly ill()use Folland Thomas, farmer, Sugworthy Prouse Robert, farmer, Thelbridge May Rev. Edward Henry l!'ox B.A. Friend ATthur, m'<.lson Heed John, farmer, Parkins Rectory Hoppe-r Jn.butcher & frmr.Ea.Rapson Reed Thomas R. farmer & assi:otant' Isaac William, shoe maker overseer, Parkins COMMERCIAL. Lemon Ann & Mary J. (Misses), Richards Thomas, farmer, Rapson Allin Thomas, fail'mer, Cliston farmers, Villavin Rockey "\Villiam, wheelwright Badcock J ame,s, farmer, Coombe Martin Grace (Mrs.), baker Squire Fras. frmr. Gt. & Lit.Wansley Bealey Eli, farmer, Villavin M.aynard John Bealey, New inn & Squi,re Henry, mason BeaJey Richard, blacksmith farmer Squire John, farmer, Hand fords Bealey John, farmer, N ewcombs Maynard J onathan, shoe maker Squire Thomas,farmer, Gt. Barlington Blackmure Hy. farmer, Cawsey's farm Pa.rdon John, carpenter Thomas Julian A. frmr. Ebberley frm Clemens Hy. farmer, Low. Barlington Pardon Lewis, carpenter Turner Edith (Miss), shopkeeper Featherstone William, miller (water) Pincombe Edwin, shoe ma. Post office "\Yard Wm. miller (water),Ooombe. ml '& farmer, Owlacombe mill Price Robert Wm. frmr. Owlacombe

ROCK:BEARE is a parish and village on the south the Hon. John Schomberg Trefusis, 4th Battalion Devon sideo of the main road from Honiton to Exeter, 2.2 miles (Militia) Regiment, are in this parish. William Hamil­ east from Broadclyst station on the main line of the ton Codrington Nation esq. of Petherton Park, Bridg­ London and South Western railway, w! south-west from water, who is lord of the ruanm. f!<:dward Bidgood esq. Honiton and 6~ east from Exeter, in the Eastern divisiQn and -Mrs. John Elliott are the chief landowners. The soil of the county, East Budleigh hundred, Ottery petty ses­ is various; subsoil, new red sandstone. The chief crops sional division, union of St. Thomas, county court dis­ are wheat and oats, with considerable ·pasturage. The trict of Exeter, rural deanery of Aylesbeare, and arch­ area is 2,333 acres; rateable value, £3,729; the popula­ deaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church ofl St. Mary tion in 190I was 401. is an ancient building of red stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a MARSH GREE~ js ~ miles south-east, and has a J\Iis­ western tower with 4 pinnacles, oontaining 5 bells, dated sion church, eroot£d in I 896, iru connection with St. respectively 1787, I637, I76I, 1767 and I6I3: the church Mar~·'s Rock beare, and a Congregational chapel; ALLI­ was restored in I88B at, a cost of £1,750, the nave being OOMBE, 3 miles south-east; 'PI1"HEAD, 2~ miles south­ lengthened, the chancel rebuilt and a new vestry and east; LIT"l'LE SILVEH, ~ mile south-east, are hamlets. organ chamber added, divided by a wooden screen, cut down to the level of the pews in 1793, and into which Post Office.-Thomas l\lartyn, sub-postmaster. Letters has been worked the Jacobean front of the old gallery: through Exeter arrive at 7·5 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ; dis­ the lower portion of the original work was removed in patched at 6 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but 1887 to Rockbeare CDurt: during the restoration an old not paid. The nearest money order office is at Honi­ piscina was disoovered iru the walls and re-set ; new oak ton Clyst & telegraph office at Whimple, 3 miles distant doors have since been added and a lych gate erected: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year Schools. 1645. The living is a viearage, net yearly value £ I'rJO, Endowed (mixed), erected about I86o, enlarged in 1891, with residence and ~I ·acres of glebe, in the g-ift of the for 8o children, by Mrs. Bidgood, & endowed by Mrs. Bishop of Exeter. The Rev. Robert Knight has LeBlanc, in I 864, with £25 yearly; average attend­ heen curate in sole charge since 18gg. There are ance, 58; James Drew, master; Miss Annie Drew, charities amounting to £9 IS. 6d. yearly value. assistant mistress ; Miss Dora Hutchings, infants' mist Rockbeare House, the residence of Capt. Edward A. Bolitho R.N., J.P. Hockbeare Court. occupied Voluntary, Marsh green (mixed), for 6o children; average by Mrs. "\Valsh, and The Grange, the residence of Col. attendance, 30; Mrs. G . .M. Larcombe. mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Broom John, farmer Pratt "\Villiam, boot & shoe maker, Bolitho Capt. Edward A., R.N., J.P. Davis Albert, fa['ller Little Upcott Rockbeare house Downe GCQTge, farme,r, Marsh farm Pyle 1'homas Seller, jun. farmer, Elliot·t 1\l.n;. Westcott house Elms Henry, farmer, The Lawns Lomyns coppice Davis Charles Gillard James, fM'mer, PalmBrs fa,rm Reynolds Alhert, assistant overseer Davis Daniel Glanville William, farme-r, Rewe· Reynolds Wm. Newb~ry. fl"'Dr. Marsh Hodge Nicholas Gooding Jn. backsmith, Marsh green Rundle Rich.aro, frmr. Allicombe frm Knight Rev.Robert ( eurate-in-charge), Hook way .T arues, farm.el', Allicornbe Short George, fM"mer The Vicarage Hutchings Albert, beer retailer Slowman James, farmer, Upcott Lee Henry C. Pithead cottage Larcomb John Clarke, horse breeder, Smith Thos. carpenter & wheelwright Trefnsis Col. The Hon . .T ohn ~chom- Marsh green Stuart Samuel, farmer, Ma.rsh green berg, The Grange Marks Joseph, grocer Symons Geo. Hy. (~fus. ),frrnr. Tanners Walsh Mrs. Rockbeare court :\Iartyn T'hmnas, Post office Symons John, farmer, Southwood ~ling le Samuel,farmer,High. Westcott Turner Matilda (Mrs.), farmer, Marsh COlL\IERCI.AL. Payne Edward, farmer, Ford house green Alford Charles, blaeksmith, :Marsh grn Pitte Henry, farmer, Upcott Turner William, farmer, Marsh green Bickley John, farmer & cattle dealer Pyle Thos. Seller, farmer, "\Voodhouse 1 Wood,row Thoma-s, farmer, Allicombe "B.OMANSLEIGH (or Rumonsleigh) is a parish and the tower was built: new chancel seats were erected in village standing on the top of a hill and bounded on the r8g6, as a memorial to the Rev. Richard White Atkins north-east by the old Roman roau, and is 4~ miles south M . .A.. rector 1884-95 : in the churchyard are the remains from South Molton station on the Devon and Somerset of an old stone cross, and on the north side of the church branch of the Great lVestern railway and 6 north-north- is St. Rumon's well. The register dates from the year east from Chulmleigh, in the Northern division of the I539· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £r69, -~ounty, Witheridge hundred, South Molton petty ses- with r28 acrr-s of glehe and residence, in the gift of :3ir . sional division, union and CDunty court district, and in Charles Thomas Dyke Acland bart. and held since r 893 the rural deanery of SDuth Molton, archdeaconry of Barn-· by the Rev . .Joseph Hugill Thompson M.A. of Jesus· Col- staple and diocese of Exeter; two small tribntaries of liege, Cambridge. Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland bart. the river Mole flow through the parish. The church of is lord of the manor, and owns about a quarter of the St. Rumon is a building of stone in the Perpendicular parish. Kitcott manor beolongs to Mrs. James, the re­ style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, orgnn maining- parts belong to the Hon. Mark George Kerr <:ha.mber and an embattled western tower containing 6 RoUe, ~Ir. Gevrge Shapland, Mr. Benson and 2\tr. Richard bells: the chancel contains two memorial windows, and Greenslade. The soil is clay; subsoil, sand and skillett. the remains of a screen were existing here in 1822: the The chief crops are wheat and oats. The area is 2,502 church was rebuilt in r868 from designs QY E. Ashworth acres; rateable value, £I,Ig8; the po-pulation in 1901 esq. architect-, of Exeter, and restored in 1885-7, when • was 155·