North Bovey Parish. 469
NORTH BOVEY PARISH. 469
and 2~A. 2R. 20P. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 18:l9, for £328 per annum. The poor have four tenements, oceupied by paupers, and the church one, let for 20s. In 1723, Thos. Parr left a. yearly rent-charge of £3, out of Higher Langdou, for schooling poor children. Here is a. small National School. :Broadmeacl James, shoemaker •Colriclge Thos., Ireland J oseph, Colridge Susan, vict. Ring of Bells Wo1mhill Lettaford Courtenay Rev Fras. John, Rectory Cornish John N osworthy John Creswell Mr 11 Cornish Mrs Mary Cuming Elias *Nosworthy Wm~ Headland Ts.Robts.vict.BirchTorlnn Cuming Wm. *Pethybridge Ts. Hill John, blacksmith & shopkeeper Dodd Wm. Langdon Rainforth Captain W. Blackaller *French Wm. *Sawdye Andrew Shears J olm, thatcher French J no.&J as. *Shears Wm. Tap.per Wm. vict. New Inn Harvcy Wm. *Windeatt John Wallen Joseph, parish clerk, &c *Heyward Andw. MASONS. CARPENTERS. FARMERS. Heyward Susan Mortimer Edw. Cohidge John (• are Owue1·s.) *Heyward Thos. Tapper Wm. Cunnalt Wm. Berry Jame!! *Heywtml Wm. Woollacott Wm.. Ferris John Cole John *Hayward W.& T. TAILORS. CORN MILLERS. Cole Mary Hole :John Ball Wm. Hooper Henry Jewell Wm. Bovev• Thomas Colridge John Mortimer Wm. BOVEY TRACEY, or South Bovey, is a small ancient town, picturesquely seated in the valley of the West Teign or Bovey river, 6 miles S.E. by S. of Moreton-Hampstead, 5 miles N.N.E. of Newton Abbot, and 4 miles W. by S. of Chudleigh. Its parish had 1823 souls in 18-11, but has now more than 2000; and ·contains 7262A. 2.R. 14P. of land, including part of the heath and rocky moorland hills on the eastern sitle of Dartmom· Forest, o.ncf crossed by the railway from Haytor Rock Granite Works, in the adjoining parish of Ilsington. The parish includes many scattered houses; the small hamlets of Little Bovey and Lower Brimley, and upwards of 500A. of low, fiat, peaty land, called Bovey Heathjield, unde1· which is got the Bovey Coal~ whieh is already noticed in the geological survey of the county, at a pre ceding page, and is supposed to have been formed from the deposit of trees and other ngetable substances, washed down from the surrounding hills in distant ages, when the Heathfield is supposed to have been an arm of the sea. This coal is used by the poor, and also at the extensive Pottery, which was established here in 1772, and is now cauied on by a Company, who ma nufacture coarse as well as the finer sorts of earthenware, equal in quality and design to the best Staffordshire wares. They employ about 300 hands. Since the opening of the Stover Canal, which connects Haytor Railway with the navigable part of the Teign, the leeches and morasses of the Heath:field have disappeared, and with them have gone the ignis fatuus ancl the ague~ which were often to he seen in the Vale of Bovey, which is skirted by tower ing hills and rocks, commanding extensive views, and affording a diversified field for the study of the geologist. The Earl of Devon owns a. great part of the parish, and is lord of the manm· and borough of Bovey Tracey, for merly held by the T1·acey family, as parcel of the barony of Barnstaple, and for which a portreeve and baili.ff' are elected annually at the lord's court. ~he former officer is supposed to have been anciently styled mayor. He has the profits of a. sma11 piece of land, for defraying the expense of the annual perambulation of the boundaries of the parish, called "the mayor'a riding." Part of the parish is in othe1· manors, and muL'h of the soil be longs to va1·ious freeholders. Cole I-Iouse is the scat of G. Manning, Esq.; and the Park, o. large mansion with extensive grounds, is the seat and pro-