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DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. YEALMPTO~. 6i9
The river Yea1m runs through the parish and flows into the Parish Clerk, Philip Luke. sea at Wembury. The church of St. Bartholomew is a POS'L', M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, John H. Blackler, sub-postmaster. Letters from Plymouth, nal"e, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower delivered at 7·5 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; sundays, 7-5 a.m.; containing a clock and 6 bells~ four of thewindowsare dispatchedatw.Ioa.m.&6.xsp.m.; sundays, IO.IOa.m• .stained: it was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in WALL LETTER Box, Vicarage Wall, cleared only week day11 x8so, at a cost of about £7,ooo, defrayed by the late 6 p.m Edmund Rodney Pollexfen Bastard esq. to whom there is a WALL LETTER Box Yealm Bridge, cleared 9·45 a.m. & 5·45 memorial window, erected by his friends and tenants: the p.m. week days only ' .columns which separate the nave and aisles are alternately COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR ERMINGTON & PLYMPTON PETTY Qf polished and rough marble of various colours: the screen SESSIONAL DIVISION. between the chancel and nave is of carved marble, and the Allen Edward esq. Stowford lodge, Ivybridge .communion table consists of a carved oak frame, supporting Bastard Baldwin John Pollexfen esq.o.L.Kitley, Yealmpton, .a m1ssive marble slab quarried in the locality: the font is Plymouth . Qf the same material and the walls are inlaid with marbles Bewes Cecil Edward esq. Hill side, Ridgeway, Plympton Qf various kinds : in the north aisle is a brass, with effigy Buller Vice-Admiral Alexander o.B. Erie hall, Plympton in armour, and inscription to Sir John Crocker, cup and Bulteel John esq. Pamflete, Ivybridge .standard bearer to King Edward IV. who distinguished Bulteel Thomas esq. Radford, Plymstock, Plymouth himself in suppressing Perkin Warbeck's rebellion in 1497; Conran Capt. William Adam, Blacklands, Plympton <()b. 13 March, xso8. The register dates from the year 1630. Cory Richard esq. Laugdon court, Plymouth · The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £253, MacAndrew James Johnston esq. Lukesland, Ivybridge net yearly value £212, with residence, in the gift of the Mildmay Francis Bingham esq. lt:.P., B.A. Flete, Holbeton, Bishop of Exeter, and held since 181!8 by the Rev. George Ivybridge Girdlestone Woodhouse B.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. 1 Parker Admiral George, Delamore, Ivybridge Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. At Yealm-bridge Phillipps-Treby Major-General PaulWinsloe R.A..Goodamoor, .are chair, cabinet and flock works, worked by water power, Plympton and employing a large number of hands, carried on by Pitman Rev. William Daniel M.A. Rectory, Aveton Giffard, Messrs. William Snawdon and Sons: there are also marble Kings bridge and granite works, and severallimestonequarries. In 1858 Pitts Nicholas William Prettejohn esq. Whympstone,. Mod~ Charles Anthony bestowed £36 yearly for clothes, bedding, bury, Ivybridge .coals and to provide necessaries for the sick poor; and at Pode John Duke esq. M. A. Slade, Cornwood, Ivybridge bis dP.ath left £6o yearly to clothe 6 old men and 6 old Soltau-Symons George esq. o. L. Chaddlewood, Plympton women and for educating and clothing 30 children. A cattle Stuart-Hawkins Christopher esq. Alston house, Plympton market is held the fourth Wednesday in each month. A Williams Michael esq. M.A. Gnaton hall, Newton Ferrers, .Sessions House and Police Station was built in 1864. There Plymouth . is a reading room and library, supported by subscriptions. Yonge John esq. B.A. Puslinch ho NewtonFerrers,Plymouth "The Crock er family, long resident at Lyneham in this parish, Clerk to the Magistrates, J. Loye, Plymouth is now merged in the Bulteels, of Pamfiete, in the parish of Petty Session are held alternate mondays at the Sessions Holbeton. Kitley, a fine Elizabethan mansion on the houses at Yealmpton, Ridgway, Modbury & Ivybridge .estuary of the Yealm, and containing a good collection of The following places are included in the petty sessional paintings, is the seat of Bald win John Pollexfen Bastard esq. division: Aveton Giffard, Bigbury, Brixton, Corn wood, D.L.,J.P. lord of the manor and principal landowner; the Ermington, Harford, Holbeton, Kingston, Modbury, New- family of the present owner has been seated in De\"onshire ton Ferrers, Plympton St. Mary, Plympton Maurice1 '.since the period of the Norman Conquest. The soil is light; Plymstock, Revelstoke, Ringmore, Ugborough, Wem- .and the subsoU, limestone and marble in great variety bury, Yealmpton The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The acreage is Police Station, William Jones, constable in charge ,3,ooo acres; rateable value, £5,752; the population in National School (mixed), built in 1876, for x6o children; 1891 was 879. average attendance, 125; John Brown, master WORCESTON, :r mile north-east, DuNSTONR, x east, and CARRIERS TO PLYMOUTH.-George Chaffe, Joseph Tapper & LYN:t<:HAM, r north, are hamlets in this parish. Joseph Tucker, tues. thurs. & sat.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. lllackler Jn.Hingston,saddlr.Post office Martin Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Adkins Joshua Edward,Elm Tree house Brooking Harry, farmer & dairyman Matthews Richard, farmer, Way farm Anthony Frank, Y ealmbury cottage Chaffe George, carrier Mcathrel Henry, plumber Barnes Misses, Valetta, Yealm bridge Chaffe Henry, jobmaster Partridge Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bastard Bald win Jn. Pollexfen J.P.,D.L. Coom · Claude S. private school, The Pearce Richard, shopkeeper Kitley ; & Buckland court,Ashburton Retreat Pearse J. & C. (M1sses), ironmongers Bastard William Edmund Pollexfen Cornish William, boot maker PedrickArthur,blacksmith, Y ealm brdg J.P. Lyneham house Collier Frederick Joseph, market gar Perring John, draper & mason Brown John dener, Yealm bridge Perrott Alfred J. W. farmer, Efford Eetts Nathaniel P. Sunnyside Cross Francis William, grocer, Heading Room & Library (Miss Sarah .Coom Claude S. The Retreat draper & coal merchant Barrett, caretaker)