DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. WEMBURY • 171 • ~BIVATB BESIDEN;fS. COMMEBCIAL. J effery G'harles, m\rket gardener- . Ackland Frederick. market gardener Jeffery Grace (Mrs.), market gardenr Balsdon Robert Percy, Weara Giffard Balsdon Robert Percy, farmer, Weare Jolli:ffe Matilda (Mrs.),frmr.Park frm Barton .. Gi:ffard Barton Lake Alfred, farmer, Low. Huxwell Carr Miss, Pine wood Beer Frederick Jas. market gardener Martin Edwd. frmr. Southcott :Qarton Cavalier Rev. Harold Omer (rector), Beer John, market gardener Moore Titus~ dairyman, Riversdale Rectory Bright Wm. shopkpr. & asst.overseer Moore William Haywood, butcher Daubeny By. Graham, Hazelwood cot Chamings Wm. farmer, Little Weare Short William Henry, farmer, Venton Greensted Sidney, Hillside Ellis James, farmer, Saltrens Stevens William, market gardener :Macreight Albert Francis Henry, Gomer Arthur, stone mason Underhill Clara (Mrs.),farmer,Highe:r The Cottage Gomer Richard, sanitary inspector & Huxwell ~ Pycroft Miss, Roadcliffa • surveyor to Torrington Rural Dis- Wilton Thomas, farmer, Cleave Rogers Wm. Snow, _Roadcli:ffe cottage trict Council Wise Frederick, market gardener Strange Commdr. Andrew L., R.N Grigg Fredk. farmerr Netherdown Wise John, market gardener WELCOMBE is a parish and yillage• on the extreme 1653· The living is a perpetual ~cy, net yearly value borders of and adjoining on the south, its £190, including 10 acres of glebe, in the gift Qf Lord greatest breadth being towards the coast of ·bay, Clinton, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Alfred John which at this point is extremely grand; it is ~7 miles Richard Wheeler B.A. of Oxford University, who resides south-west :flrom Bideford station on the Torringtun at Woodford, . The :Rev. R. S. Hawk1lr~ branch and 14 north-west from Holsworthy terminal poet and antiquary, was 30 years curate here, and fo1' station on a branch of the London and South Western many years vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall. He died railway, and 10 north from Stratton (Cornwall), in the 15 August, 1875· Outside the churchyard gate is an Barnstaple division of the county, Hartland hundred, ancient "Holy Well." Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The Bideford petty sessional division and union, county court valleys and cliffs bordering on this parish are extremely di!!trict of Holsworthy, rur.al deanery of Hartland, arch· picturesque. Welcombe Mouth and Marsland Valley, deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The road referred to in Charles Kingsley's "W est~ard Ho ! " are from Bideford to Bude passes al'Ong the borders of the especially noted for their wild and enchanting f!Cenery. parish. The church of St. N ectan is an ancient cruciform W illiam Pryce Skynner esq. is lord of the manor; John edifice of stone of the 12th or 13th century, consisting of Mear How is the chief landowner. The soil is ligh~ chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled resting on bard sandstone. The chief crops are whea~, western tower containing 4 bells, of which the first and oats and barley. The parish contains 1,787 acres of' third data f.rom 1731 ; the tenor was also of this date, but land and 34 of foreshore; rateable value, £73'0;. the has been recast since the restoration of the ch}Lrch; the population in 19n was 147· 11econd was recast in 1790: the church retains a. very Letters through Eude, Cornwall. Morwenstow (Corn- beautifully carved oak screen, and over the a,rches of th wall), 2 miles distant,.. is the nearest money order .15 transepts is some interesting carved work, representing telegraph office on one side " the fruitful vine," and on the other " the barren fig tree:" there are brasses in memory of Canon Public Elementary School "(mixed), erected ill,_ 1&86, for Puddicombe, a former curate, and the Rev. E. J. Porter 40 children; Miss Eva Ba.kewell, mistress II.A. a. former vicar: the church was restored in 1883-4, The school is under the control .of six managers; Fredk. and has 120 sittings. The register dates from the year Ward, Barton, Welcombe, correspondent • COM~EBCIAL. Hockin William, farmer, Unde.l:hill Oliver James, farmer, Henneford Box William, farmer, Mead Howard Jesse Westlake, miller Pomeroy Willia.m, farmer, Mead Burrow Elijah, farmer, 'i'redown (water), West mill Prouse Waiter, farmer, Mead Oornish Willie, carpenter Je:ffrey John, farmer, Darracott Prouse William, farmer, Linton Vottle Frank, farmer, Well farm Oke Saml. & Edwd.farmrs.Bury park Wade Richard, carpenter Cattle John,· farmer, Lanapark Oke John, farmer, Upcott Wakely Oaleb, blacksmith, Darracott Dennis John, farmer, Leddon Oke William Jn. apartments, Straw- Ward John (Mrs.) & Son,frmrs.Ba.rtn Hedden John, farmer, East town berry Water Ward John, farmer, Henneford WEMB UR Y is. a parish on the. south coast, 6 miles 1- and clothing. Langdon Court, a mile and a quarteR dis­ llouth-east from Plymouth, in the Tavistock division of taut, is the property .and residence of Richard Walli• the county, hundred of Plympton, petty se!!sional Cory esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, which up to the division of Ermington and Plympton, union of time of the Dissolution belonged to the priory of Plymp­ Plympton St. Mary, county court district of Ply- ton; the house was built in 1577 by the families of mouth, and in the Plympton ruraL deanery, arch- Pollexfen and Calmady, and inhabited by them till 1875, deaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church when it was bought by Mr. Cory. It was rebuilt in. ~f St. Werburg, situated close to the sea and at some 1,707 by Josias Calmady. Wembury House, now the distance from the village, is a plain building of local property and residence of Robert Hogarth Clay M.D. stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, was built by Sir John Hele, and was originally muoh nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western larger than al present. R. W. Cory esq. J.P. is the tower containing 5 bells. In the church are several I principal landowner. The' soil is loamy; subsoil, clay monuments, including one dated 1677 to the family and slate. The chief crops are wheat, oats, b~nley and of Calmady, and another on the north side of the turnips. The area is 3,131 acres of land, 2 of water, 30 cha~cel, and dated 16o1, to Sir John Hele and his of tidal water and 237 of foreshore; rateable value. family, and three parclose screens, erected from the £ 4,164 ; the population in 1gn was 522. designs of Messrs. Hine and Odgers, architects, and . executed by Hems, of Exeter: the ancient screen was DOWN THOMAS, one m1le north-west, and KNIGH- taken down and destroyed about 1850: the church was TON, north-east, are hamlets. There/is a Wesley&llo restoN~d and re-seated in r886 by the same architects, at chapel at Down Thomas. a eost of £3,500, and affords 280 sittings. The register Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Knighton.-Mrs. Minnie Brown, of baptisms and burials dates from the year r6n ; mar- sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from PlymO'Uth

riages,. 1612. ~he living is a vicarage, net yearlY: value Wall Lette Bo e 8 Langdon Court & Down "'homas [,280, m the gift of the Dean and Canons {)f Wmdsor, .r x · ,.. and held since r883 by th~ Rev. Charles Burgess. One Public Elementary School, built in 1876 at a cost of of the ancestors of Vincent Calmady esq. in r682 £734, for 8o. children; Mrs. Annie Dixon, mistresS' bequeathad £soo, now £522 3s. rod. Consols. to the 'the school is controlled by six managers; Pltilip Bate- parish, the interest of which is dtstributed in bread, coals man, Plymstock, correspondent WEMBUllY. ('ocks Ernest, farmer, Down Thomas IWells Frank, New inn PRIVATE RESIDENTS. • Coleman Nieltolas, farmer, Spurwell Wilson James, farmer, Traine farm Arkwright William, Thor9 Edwards William, farmer,Manor farm Wilson John, farmer, Down Thomaa­ Burgess Rev. Charles (vicar), Wem- Fowden Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper, bury cottage - Down Thomas KNIGHTON. Oase Rev. Joshua John, Boveysand le Giles Herbert, farmer, Down Thomas Sherwill Mrs Clay Robt. Hogarth M.D.Wembury ho Hoskip William, farmr. Gabber farm Cory Rd. Wallis J.P. Langdon court Milden Daniel, carrier COMHBRCUI._ COMKERCIAL. Pursley Broth~s, farmers, West Oc~leman John, smith . Andrew Jn. farmer, Langdon.. Barton Wembury farm Nelder .A.rthur, farmer, Newbarton Olay Robert Hogarth M.D., L.R.C.S.. Sherwill Johti Maurice, farmer, Parsons John, farmer, Oldbarton . Edin. surgeon, lVembury house K~:~ighton fat'ID. Perring Alfred, Jubilee inn DEVON 25#