DIRECTORY. J DEVONSHIRE. PLYMPTON ST. MARY. 619 leyan school chapel was opened in March, rgo6, at the arms, with the date 1604: it- is now a farmhouse in the Laira, at a. ~ost of f.2,';1.oo. A s1nall Convalescent oecupation of Mr. Alfred Gillard. Old Newnham, the Hospital for Women was established here in 1883. The ancestral seat of the Strode family, was the residence of charities amount to- £97 yearly. This village was Simon de Plympton in the time of Edward L and a formerly the site of a priory, founded in -r121 by grandson of his took the name of de N ewnham ; it is )Wbert Warlewast, Bishop of E:ll:eter nso-9, and new a farmhouse and in the occupation of Mr. Geo~ formerly Dean of Salisbury, m the place of a college, Coaker. Newnham Park, the seat. of George Sydney · consisting 'of a dean and four canons, which had existed Strode Strode esq. D.L., J.P. pleasantly situated, stands here from a very early period; the priory, dedicated to on the site of the old Manor House of Loughtor. SS. Peter and Paul, was intended for canons of the order formerly the seat of the Courtenays ; the park of· 166 of St. Augustine : at the Dissolut-ion there were 21 .canons acres is well timbered and watered by the river Tory f and its yearly revenues were estimatea at [.912: the in the- park is kept a fine herd of d.eer. The other Early English refectory, over a Norman undercroft, and principal seats are Elfordleigh, the residence of Mrs . .a kitchen of the 15th century still remain at the Priory Bainbridge! and Chaddlewood, of Lieut.-Col. George .Mills; attached to this priory were cells -at St. Mary Algernon James Soltau-Symons. The Earl of Morley, de Marisco (now Marsh Barton), near Exeter, and St. who is lord of the manor, George S. Strode Strode esq. Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall. Saitram House, . the Lieut.-Col. George A. J. Soltau-Symons, George Arthur ·seat of the Earl of Morley .1.P. lord of the manor and Ley Woollcombe esq. M.A., J.P . .J,.ord Seaton and Mrs. barony of Plympton, is a stately mansion in an extensive Bainbridge are the chief landowners. The soil is loam ; .and finely-wooded park on the east side of the river subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats Plym, about 3 miles east-north-east of Plymouth, and and root crops. The area is 10,353 acres of land, 38 of was mostly built by Lady Katherine Parker, mother of water, II of tidal water and 93 of foreshore; rateable the first Lord lloringdon; the beauty of the situation value, £35,004; the population in 1901 was 3,837 in the induced the Parkers to continue, the enlargement of civil and 2,989 in the ecclesiastical parish, and in A9II the mansion and the embellishments of the grounds, was 3•940 in the civil and 3,049 in the ecclesiastical the groves and lawn!t of which overlook the waters of parsh, including 14 office:rs and 143 inmates in the- the estuary of the Plym, called the Laira ; the house workhouse. ' has been much improved by former earls and is sur Deputy Parish Clerk, Frank Pitwood. , rounded by a beautiful lawn and grounds of about 300 acres in extent; its western front is 170 feet in length and COI.EBROOK, UNDERWOOD, RIDGEWAY, jo~g the southern and eastern fronts each extend to 159 feet:· Plympron, are hamlets. .adjoining the grounds is Plymouth race-course, and SPARKWELL, together with LEE Mq.L BRIDGE, across the Plym is the Laira bridge, built by the ISt VENTON, HEMERDON and BOTTLE A ILL in civil Earl of Morley. Boringdon House came into the posses this parish, have been formed into an ecclesiastical parish tnon of the Parker family in the 16th century, one of and will be found under the heading of Sparkwell. the Parkers of North Molton having married in .15a3 Mi1111 Mayhew, the heiress of Boringdon: the house is of con CHELSON MEADOW, with a population in 19u .Qf siderable interest and contains a fine hall with a min 9, in Plympton St. Mary civil parish, is reputed to be strels' gallery; over the chimney-piece are the Royal e~tra parochial for ecclesiastical purposes. OFFICIAl. ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office, Colebrook. James PLYMPTON ST. MARY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL, Fl}r ley~ sub-postmaster. Letters through Plympton, The parishes in the District are the same as in tL~ which is the nearest telegraph office .. Union with the exception of Ivybridge . Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office, Underwood.-Stephen Council meets at the Unio:O.. House on alternate fridays, Thomas Luke, sub-postmaster. Letters received from at 2.30 p.m. Ply~pton, w.hich is th!! nearest telegraph office Chairman, Richard Priest J .P. W oodside, Plympton Wan Letter Boxes-St. Mary's Bridge ; Toriano place; Officials. Fore street, Ridgeway; Long Bridge, Marsh Mills ; Clerk, John W. Bickle, Temple chambers, Weetwell · Moorland villas, Ridgeway & Woodbine villas atreet, Plymouth • Treasurer, Charles Coyte, IJoyds Bank .L!mited. BedfoTd street, Plvmouth COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR ERMINGTON & Medical Officer uf Health, Sack Noy Scott L.R.C.P PLYMPTON PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. Lond., D.P.H.R.O.P.S.Lond. ~lmleigh, Plymstoc.it Alien John, :a Windsor terrace, Plymouth Engineer & Surve:rQr, J. Leigl:iton Fouracre, Compton, · Andrews John, Traine, Modbury, Ivybridge Plymouth Basta.rd Lieut.""Col. William Edmund ~ollexfen, Kitley, Sanitary In~pector, William E. Horton, Woodside, · YealmptGn · Plympton St. Mary Oholmondeley Geo. Vere Hugh, Glazebrook, Sth. Brent Highway Surveyors, Matthew William Wickett, Michael· Cocb Richard Emest, Ranleigh, Wembruy, Plymouth stow, Plympton St. M:try & Frank Cr.ecker, Elms- Cory Richard Wallis, Langdon court, Wembury, Plymth leigh, Brixton - Mild.may Lieut.-Col. Right Hon. Francis Bingham B.A., Water Bailiff, Wm. H. Hoskin. Plylllpton St. Maurice M.P. Flete, Holbeton, Ivybridge Inspector under Petroleum Act, J. S. Stepbens, 5 South Moore Fredk. John, Petherwyn h
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