DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. WOOLFARDISWORTBY WEST. 785

WOODLEIGH is a parish and small agricultural ('ambridge. Wood, Barton has been a Cistercian monas­ village, with a station in the parish, on the Kingsbridge tery since 1902. There is a rent-charge of £I rss. from branch of the South Devon section of the Great Western . la:l)ds at Lowerdale, which is annually divided amongst railway, and is 3! miles nExeter Cathedral, and held since xgro but altered & enlarged for a school to hold 32 child~ by the Rev. Josiah Newman M. .A.. of Magdalene College, ren; :Miss E. G. Gooden, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. *Hallett Fdk.carpntr. Preston Combe (Marked thus * should be addressed *Baker Benjamin Richard, farmer & Harvey Fred, farmer, Grimstonleigh East Allington, Devon.) breeder of South Devon cattle, Harvey John, farmer, Grimstonleigh Higher Hendham Kelland Thomas, shopkeeper Baker Frank, Oak Lee *:Baker Frederick, farmer, Hendham Kennard James, blacksmith Baptist Rev. John (Catholic), Wood *Damerell Arthur W. farmer, Pres- Luscombe Edward, farmer Barton . ton Combe Our Lady ()f Compassion Cistercian Newman Rev. Josiah M.A. (rector), *Garry Richard, farmer, Lowerdale Monastery (Rev. John Bapti&t, Rectory Goss Thomas (Mrs.) & Sons, farmers, superior), Wood Barton Bedlime · WOOLFARDlSWORTHY (near Creditsq. and Crediton to South Molton, 6! north from Cnd,iton Charlt>s Comyns Tucker esq. are the principal land­ station on the London and Soqth Western railway and owners. The soil is loam and clay; the subsoil is rock .rd· north-west from Exeter~ in the South Molton divi- 'I'he chief crops .are bar~y. wheat and oats. The acre­ sion of the county, Witheridge hundred, Crediton petty age is 2,136; rateable value, £r,645; tht> population in sessional division, union and county court district, rural I9II was 172 in the ~ivil and 154 in the ecclesiastical deanery of Cadbury and archdeacDnry and dioc~se of parish. · ' Exeter. The church (){ St. Mary, rebuilt in r845, "is By Local Government Board Order, r6,552, South an edifice in the Early Perpendicular style, con- Emlett Farm was transferred from Down St. Mary, March sisting of chancel, nave, south ~sl_e, south porch and an 24, 1584, and bv Order r6,345, a detached part of East embattled wester~ tower, contammg 3 bells, the first Worlinatou added Mav 1885. two dated respectively 1736 and 1740; the tenor has an "' . • 24 ' . inscription in Old English characters : there are 142 LLette_rs ~y mall cart from Morchard Bishop, De':'n• sittings. The register dates from the year r664. The w.luch 1s the neare~t teh-graph o~ce, about 4. m1les living i;; a rectory, net yearly value £170, including 95 d1stant & Black Doz. about 2 mtles distant, IS the acres of glebe, with residence, in ths. gift of Charles nearest money ~rder office A. Benn esq. and held since 1903 by the Rev. John The children of this place attend the school at Wash· De-la-Bere M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, who is fvrd Pyne PRIV-ATE RESIDENTS. 1 Burrow Frank, farmer, Tree tTapp John (Mrs.), farniej., Foxhole De-la-Bere Rev. John M.A. (rector), Greenslade William, miller .(w~ter) k Higher Bowerhay Rectory · Hammett John, farmer, Brmd1field Tucker George, farmer, Wood farm. tHammett Waiter, farmBT, Densham Tucker Samuel, farmer COMMERCIAL. Hem Richard, farmer, South Efnlett Vicary Charles, farmer, East Emlett Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over.· Isaac Samuel, farmer, Hudgery 1tWebber Charles, farmer, Higher Belworthy William k Frank, farmers, I Palfrey Fredk. frmr. East Brownstone ~ienchindown North Densham Salter John, farmer k assistant over- Bickley William, f8ll'Iner, .Barton seer, West Emlett , WOOLF ARDISWORTHY WEST,- or WOOL- stone. The principal landowner-: are Mrs. Hamlyn a.nd SERY (near Bideford) is a parish and village, 9 miles Philip Francis Cary-Elwes esq. The soil is various and west-south-w~st from Bideford station on th~orrington the subsoil, clay. The crops are oats, roots and wheat. branch of the London and South Western railway and 6 The area is 6,113 acres of land, 6 of water and 83 of Past-south-east from Harlland, in the Barnstaple foreshore; rateable value, £2,734; the population in the division of the county, .Hartland hundred, Bideford petty civil parish in 19II 'Was 629 and sor in the ecdesiastical sessional division, union and county court district, rural parish. · deanery of Hartland, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of the Holy Trinity is an BUCK'S MIIJ.S is an ecclesiastical parish formed from anCient edifice_ of stone in the- Norman and Later styles, Woolfardisworthy We<~t, and will be founil. under a separate consisting pf chance], nave, aisles, vestry, south porch heading. • and an embattled western tower with piy.nacles, contain- Sexton Edward Brent ing 6 bells : and above is an ancient watch-tower :- the ' · church contains a Norman doorway with enrichments and IPost, M. 0. & T. Office, Woolsery. John Andrew, sufl- a font of the same date, and was restored in 1g72 : there postma-:ter. Lett~rs through Buck'" Cross, Devon are about 200 sittings. The register dates from the year Wall Letter Box, V1carage ~723 .. The living is a vicarag~, net rearly v~lue £2o_o, Public Elementary School mixed), opene.i in 1879, for mcludmg 16 acres of glebe, w1th res1dence, m the ~1ft I 120 children · Frederick Rogers, master of the Misses Hawkes, and held since r888 by the Rev. . ' Frederick Courtenay Burrough. There is a United The school 1s controlloo by 6 managers Methodist chapel here and a We.sleyan chapel at Almin- f'arrier to Bideford.-William Burrow, tues Burrough Rev. Frederick Courtenay, Becalick James, farmer, Leworthy C->nh Ch-arles, frmr.Sth.Stroxworthy Vicarage Bond John 0. farmer, H_ole Cann Thos. yeoman, Ashma.nsworthy Stevens John, Moorhead Boundy Oliver, farmer, Cranford Chidley Henry, farmer, Higher Venn CUMMERCI.&L. Burrow Joseph, farmer, Lo-wer town Chidley Wm. L. farmer, Higher Venn Andrew John, grocer, Post office Burrow Wm; farmer, Highertown Colwill Thom.as, farmer, Gorrell Andrew Joseph, farmer, Dipple Cann ..A.lbert, farmer,Hurley meadows