42 i ~ORTHCO'l'f. DEVoNSHIRE. {KELLY'S < • NORTHCOTT, known as Nort.hcott Hamlet, forms a I of tll'ti manor and principal landowner. The soil is portion of the parish of Boyton, the relll'ainder of which is chiefly light clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are in Cbrnwall: it is 4 miles north·west from Tower Hill 1 "hPat, oats and roots. The a.rea. is 6&6 acres; rateable station on the Launceston branch of the London and value, £374; the population in 19II was 48. South Western railway, 6 north from Launceston and 8 By Local Government Board Order 20,64o, Issacott, or south-west from Holsworthy, in the Tiverton division Hessacott, was transferred to Werrington, Mar. 25, 1888. -of the county, Blaok Turrington hundred, HolswDl'thy Letters through Launceston, which is the nearest money petty sessional division, Launoeston union and county order office; the nearest telegraph office is at Boyton, court district. Richard Carlyon Coode esq. J .P. is lord ~~ mile;,; distant; ,letters collected by postman • Marked thus t farm rso acres or over. Howard ueorge, farmer, Fir mount Cole .Annie M. (Mrs.), miller (water} I - tSmith Henry, -farmer _ NORTHLEIGH is a parish consisting of a few scattered of flint and rng stone, with free.stone dTessings, in tL.e houses, 4 miles south-east from Honiton station on the Jacolwan style. There are charities consisting of 8 main line of the London and South Western railway, and acres of land in the parish, producing £n yearly, which 20 east fr~m Exeter, in the Honiton division of the county, is distributediocese of Exeter. Sunday school, and the intere-st of the oth'er £1oo to The church of St. Giles is a building of stone, chiefly i:rr tre distributed· in bread and money to the poor o:n the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave and Christmas pay. The trustees of the late Rev. William corth aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, Henry Baptist Proby M.A. who are lordS of the manor, -with a turret at the north-east angle, and containing 4 and Samuel Tuke esq. J.P. are the chief landmme1s. bells, rehung in 1897: the chancel, rebuilt about 1858. The soil is mixed; subsoil, red marl. The crops are is ,;gep~rated fTom the nave by a handsomely-carved wheat, barley, oats and r.oots. The area is 1,172 acres; -screen: in 1869 the church was new roofed and the nave r11teable value, £1,568; the population in I9II was 167 -and tower restored; the latter at the east of the late in the civil and 148 in the ecclesiastical parish. Sir Edmund S. Prideaux -bart. ; there is a mem1>rial By Local Government Board Order 16,349. Coombe window to the Rev. H. P. Daniell, a former rector, and Smallicombe Farms wel'e transfened from Offwell erected by his daughter, Miss M. F. Daniell, and a to Northleigh, March 24, il:884, for civil purposes. marble tablet in the north aisle to Robert Underdown Sexton, Nathaniel Moss. esq. f(}l'merly of this parish, d. 2- .April, IBII: the font Letters through Honiton. Farway, 1 mile distant, is ' is :Norman. There are 1 5° ~ittings. The register of · the neltl'est post office, & Colyton, 3~ miles distant, is baptis;ns dates from the year 1700; marriages, 1708 ; the nearest money ordel' & telegraph office • buriah, 1697. Th) living is. a rectory, net yearly _in- .come £ 14o, includmg 47 acres of glebe._with residence, Public Elementary School (mixed), built for 6o chil- in the gift of the Bil'hop of Exeter, and held since 1918 dr.Pn; Mrs. A. Day, mistrel'!s • by the Rev. Richard Sydney Davies M ..A. of Worcester This. school is- controlled by the Huniton Centre School .(Jollege, Oxford. Thi> Parsonage House has been rebuilt Sub-Committee; Rev. R. S. Dav~es M.A. conespondnt · Davie~ Rev. ~ichard ·Sydney M.A. Baker Arth. JessP, farmer, Townsend Moss Nathaniel, boot & shoe maker Rectory Banks Henry Dick, farmer, Bucknole Payne 'Fred,- farmer, Clappswater I ' Cummings Regnld. farmer, Tricombe Snell William, farmer, Smallicombe comrRRCIA.L. Davey .Albert, faTmer, Chilcombe Summers Edwin, farmer,Ho.rnshayne Back.well Ralph, New inn & assistant Hayes William, blacksmith Underdown Jn. farmer, Collins· farm- overseer- Lee Perpy, farmer, Summerdown Wakley Ernest, ma:;;on Baily James & Ernest, fa1•mers, MatthevstWm. (Mrs.), frmr. Coombe White Frank, whPelwril(ht Norlhleigh farm Moore F~ederick, farmer, Shutes NY:MET ROWLAN D is a parish on the river!} Taw and burialR, ;r734. The living is a rectory, amrexed to and Yeo.- near their confluence,· .and 1 mile west; from tht> vicarage of Coleridge, joint net yearly value £320, -the Lapford station or the North Devon branch of with residence, in the gift of the RPv. J. Johnson, and the London and South Western railway, Io north-west hPld since 1917 by the Rev. Eustace Dickinson Price from Crediton and r1 north-iitlst "from Exeter, in the M . .A.., K.I.H. of Trinity -College, Dublin. The manor, South :Molton division uf the -county, North Tawton long the property of the Rowland~ .family, has been -httndred, South Molton.petty se<~siBarnstaple and diocese of Exeter. and oats, with pasturage. The area is 6o6 acres; rate- The church of St. Bartholomew is a. building of stone sble value, £745; th!! population in I9II was 78. - in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and Wall Letter Box. Letters through Morchard Bishop. nave,, south porch and an embattled western tower Lapfm·d is the nearest money order & telegraph office, ,containing one bell: the chancel was restored in 1871 1! miles distant by a former r:ctor, at a -co'lt of £210: in 1908 the tower This plact> is inclnded in the Lapford & Nymet Rowland -and belfry wt-re 1·ebuilt.. 'There are 65 sittings. The UnitPd Pchool district ; the children attPnd Lapford 1"6gister of baptisms dates from thP year 1719 ; marriage<~ school · Adcock Sir Hugh C.M.G. Nymet ho COMMERCIAL. • Gibbings Sydney, shopkeeper Bragg Ern est, The Bungalow Farley George~ farmer & miller IPike Albert Edwin, farmer, Hele - Parliridge Jn. LeonaTd Jas.Barton ho Ford Frank, farmer, Cleavehanger Pike Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Parsonage - Price Rev. Eustace DickinsoD M.A.; {letters through Wembworthy) I K."l.H. The Rectory I NYMPTON ST. GEORGE, see Georgenympton. - OAKFORD (or Okeford) is a parish and village near memory of Lady .A.nson and fhe Uev .. Donald Campbell the river Exe,. which is crossed by a -bFidge to Bampton, )LA. a form.e1' rector: the church was restored, during and is 3! miles west-by-south from Bampton statkm o:a thf' pt>riod I8J3-88, at a cost of £512, and altered and the Exe Valley branch. 4 south from Dulverton station i nprovt>d in 1903, and now affords 340 sittings. The on the Devon and SomersPt branch of the Great chnrch:t-ard was enlarged in rgoo by a qnarlf>r of an Western railway, and 9 north-north-west from Tiver- acre of land given by the rectol'; the cost of fnclosure ton, in the Tiverton division of the county, hun- : wa~ met by gifts and a voluntary Tate. The register

and county court district of Tiverton and in the net yearly value £830, including go acres of glebe, rural deanery of Tiverton, and the archdPaconry and . with residen who died 1871 ; there is also one to the Mlting from 178o, provides annllally £25, bnt at present younger son of the Rev. D. Campbf'll M.A. rector here j no payment is madP by the Charity Commissioners. :t893-1909• one to :Major-General Spu;-way R . .A. who died ThE-re are also parochial charities left by the Re,.. iD ~903, and .the west windpw inserted 1914, t

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