DEVONSHIRE. [B:ILLY's in Plate Armour, and a Lady, Probably Representing Sir Hugh Principal Landowners
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80 ASB:WATIR. DEVONSHIRE. [B:ILLY'S in plate armour, and a lady, probably representing Sir Hugh principal landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, Courtenay, of Boconnoc, Cornwall, slain at Tewkesbury, 4 clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Acreage, May, 1471, and Margaret (Carminow) his wife: in the east 8,587; rateable value, [,3,017; the population in 1881, 849. window of the aisle are the arms of Carew impaling Parish Clerk, John Cory. Carminow; and a shield on one of the bench ends exhibits a biretta and a monogram, possibly referring to the Arscott POST OFFIGE.-Richard Hocking Moon, sub-postmaster. family: the stained east window is a memorial to the wife Letters received from Lifton R.S.O. at 10 a.m.; dispatched and daughter of the Rt'v. Thomas Melhuish M.A. late rector: at 3 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Lifton, there are 500 sittings. The register dates from the year & telegraph office is at the Railway station 1553. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £515, net INSURANCE AGENT.-Phcenix Fire, J. Dockett yearly value [,458, including 94 acres of glebe, with A School Board of 5 members was formed April 9, 1875 ; residence, in the gift of the Rev. George Douglas Melhuish John Cory, clerk to the board j Thomas Oliver Holsworthy M.A. who resides at Bradninch, near Exeter, and held since attendance officer 1:864 by the Rev. James Meyrick Feild RA. of Worcester Board School (formerly a chapel), will hold 110 children; College, Oxford. There are two Bible Christian chapels average attendance, 72 j Charles Alfred Rabley, master; here. Robert J. Preston-Whyte egq. J.P. of Leigh House, Miss Mary Elizabeth Fry, 5ewing mistress ChulmIeigh, who is lord of the manor, and Mrs. Ford are the Railway Station, Edmund Tolley, station master Feild Rev. James Meyrick B.A.. Rectory Friend Richard, farmer, Braddon Palmer Richard, farmer, Langford Gerry John, Cross lanes Fry Thomas M.R.e.V.S. veterinary sur- Parsons James, farmer, Hay Vickery Thomas geon, Priestacott Parsons John, farmer, Visa Fry Samuel, blacksmith Rogers Richard, farmer, Clawmoor COMMERCIAL. Furse William, farmer, Quoditch Rudland & Pethick, corn & general Ball William, farmer, Muckworthy Furze George, farmer, West Down merchants, Steam mills; & at Tower Beare Jane (Mrs. ),miller (water),AshmI Gerry Richard, farmer, Barton Hill station & Launceston Beare John, farmer, Statfold Gerry William, farmer, Arscott Sanders Lewis, Manor inn, & farmer Beare Samuel, yeoman, Priestacott G-imblet John, farmer, Hunscott Sillifant William, farmer, Priestacott Eraund John, farmer, Hegadon Hamly Fras. carpntr. &bldr.Priestacott Skinner Samuel, farmer, Muckworthy Bray Arthur, farmer, West Venn Hatch Emanuel, farmer, Burrow Smale Robert, carpenter, Quoditch Clifton Richard, carpenter, Enford Hatch John, farmer, Larkworthy Spry John, blacksmith & deputy regis- Clifton William, carpenter Herd John, farmer, Luckcroft trar of births & deaths for Broad- Cole Wm. butcher &farmer, Priestacott Hill Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Hunscott widger sub-district, Holsworthy Cory John, registrar of births & deaths Hill John grocer, Blagaton union, Buckhorn & vaccination officer for the sub-dist. Jordan Thomas, farmer, Statfold Spry William, blacksmith of Broadwidger, Holsworthy union Jordan Richard, farmer, Swingdon Squires Joseph, farmer, Hole Crocker Frank, farmer, Grindsworthy Mayne John, boot & shoe maker Stephens William Keith, farmer, Hole Cracker Thomas, shopkeeper Metherell Emannel, yeoman, Buckhorn Stribley George, draper Daniel James, farmer, Larkwortby Moon Rd. Hocking, grocer, Post office Symons William, farmer, Langaford Dockett James, tailor Nancekivell Samuel, farmer, Renson Trick Wm. boot & shoe ma. Mount lane Dockett Jobn, blacksmith Nancekivell William Beale, farmer & WaIters Henry, farmer, Burrington Down Thomas, Railway inn cattle dealer, Priestacott Whitford Frdk. farmer, Sandbury moor Facey Alexander, farml3r, East Down Northcott James, carpenter, Ashmill Withecombe Lewis, farmer, Qnoditch Facey Thomas, farmer, Mnckworthy Oliver Thomas, yeoman, Enford Yelland Samuel, farmer, Middlecroft Friend John, farmer, Whiddon Oliver William, farmer, Enford ATHERINGTON is a parish and village I mile west cost of about [,3,000, when the walls were partly rebuilt, the from Umberleigh Bridge station on the North Devon branch bells re-hung, a clock placed in the tower and a lych gate of the London and South Western railway, 204~ miles from built, chiefly at the cost of the rector's family: there are 250 London, 7 miles south from Barnstaple, 7 north-east from sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. The living <rorrington and 8~ west from South Molton, in the North is a rectory, tithe rent-charge average £354, net yearly Western division of the county, hundred of North Tawton, value £416, iucluding 200 acres of glebe, with residence, in petty sessional division of Braunton, Barnstaple union and the gift of the Rev. Thomas Freke Arthur B.A. of Hawley county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of House, Barnstaple, and held since 1881 by the Rev. William Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Mary, Wills Arthur B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. There is a oOriginally built in the Early English period, is an ancient manor attached to the living and 100 acres of land. Here is building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting a Baptist chapel. Mrs. Basset is chief landowner. The soil of chancel, nave, aisle, south porch and an embattled western is clayey; subsoil, clayey. The chief crops are wheat and tower containing a clock and 6 bells, cast in 1786: the oats. The area is 3,326 acres; rateable value, £3,160; the church retains a lofty and very richly-carved oak screen of population of the parish in 1881 was 518. late Perpendicular date, with a rood-loft across the north UMBERLEIGH is a hamlet, I mile east, situated in the 'raw aisle: the east window is stained i the bench ends are of valley, overlooking the river Taw, across which there is an carved oak; on the north side of the chancel is an altar old wooden bridge; the North Devon railway has ll. station tomb, panelled round the sides in quatrefoils, and retaining here. Here was formerly a chapel dedicated to the Holy on the upper slab effigies in brass of a knight in full Trinity, endowed as a chaRtry by Joan, heiress of the armour, between two ladies; below these are small figures in Champernownes and wife of Sir Ralph Willington kt. but two groups of 12 children, and at the angles are shields of ~uppressed in 1547 and dismantled in 1800 i it is now dese arms (one being lost); the persons commemorated are Sir crated and used for farm purposes. John Bassett kt. ob. 1528, and his wives Elizabeth (Denys) LANGRIDGE is also a hamlet I~ miles west and Bonora (Grenville) : in the north aisle of the chancel Sexton Thomas Harris 2 • lies the mutilated effigy of a warrior of the 13th century, in ' . chain armour, and wearing a cyclas, the arms and legs being Pos~ OFFICE.-Thomas Loosemore, r~cPl.ver. Letters re- now lost j the figure has been assigned to Sir William de cClved from Barnstaple at 9·5 a.m. , ~lspatched ~t f·55 Champernowne kt. : in the chancel are two other recumbent p.m. The nearest money order ?~ce l~tt Hig\l;3lCkmg- effigies of the 14th century of a knight in full armour and sur- ton & telegraph office at Umberlelg RaJ way sta IOn coat with the arms of Willington, conjectured to represent Sir SCHOOLS:- Ralph Willington kt. ob. 1329, and Lady Eleanor (Mohun) his National (mixed), built iu 1864. for 120 children i average wife; all these effigies are said to have been removed here attendance, 48 ; Miss Clam Hewville, mistress from the desecrated chapel at Umberleigh; also a tomb Baptist (mixed), built in 1840, for 45 children; average with effigies of a crusader and wife: the church was restored attendance, 30 i :Miss Martha Mayne, mistress in 1884 under the direction of J. L. Pearson esq. R.A. at a Railway Station, Umberleigh, T. Eyres, station master Arthur Rev.William Wills B.A. [rector] Beer William, carpenter Delbridge Thomas, farmer, Fishley'rock Gaye Major-General Douglas R.A. Um- Beer William, farmer & fruit & fish Down John, farmer, Little Hall berleigh house dealer, Prospect cottage Down Thomas, farmer, Bartridge Bowden William, nurseryman Guard Geo. miller (water), Umberleigh COMMERCIAL. Brownscombe John, brewer, maltster & Harding James, farmer, Great Knowle Andrew John, farmer, Umberleigh farmer &assistant overseer &collector Barris Mrs.MaryAnn,farmer,Brimridge Arthur George, farmer, Eastacombe of taxes Harris Thomas, stone mason Arthur William, farmer, Eastacombe Brown John, fruit dealer Joslin William, farmer, Wan hills Bedford John, farmer, Barton Burgess William Thomas, Rising Sun Joslin William Hy. farmer, Langridge Bedford Richa.rd, farmer, Wooton P.H. Umberleigh bridge Lemon William, farmer, Wixland Beer James, farmer &; fruit dealer Champion WaIter, farmer, Little Weir Loosemore Thos. blacksmith, Post office Beer John, shoe maker Chugg William, farmer Mayne Frederick, shoe maker Beer Samuel, fruit dealer Delbridga John, farmer,Burriott Barton , Milton John, farmer, Little Knowle.