DIRECTORY ·l DEVONSHIRE. PAYBEMBURY. 453 Bev. John Pyke, a fortner rector; and there is another Bernefield, temp. Henry m. Richard Ferris, of window in the chancel to Richard Dovell esq. of Middle Ba.rnstaple, was owner in 1620, and by his will, ton. The -old church of St. Petrock, an ancient struc dated 1646, he gave £xo per aJUlum from it to a school ture in the Norman and Early English styles, was master at Barnstaple and £20 per annum for binding restored in r8g2, and again in rgo8 after being struck apprentices in the town of Barnstaple. These annuities :by lightning : it is now used occasionally in the sum are still paid. There are several prehistoric remains in mer: it retains an ancient chancel screen. The register the parish, and a castle of Norman date with a double odates from the year r687. The living is a rectory, net fosse called "Holwell Castle:" there are also some yearly value £285, including 6r acres of glebe, with very fine barrows on the hill called " Chapman Barrows," ll'esidenee, in the gift of C. E. R. Chanter esq. of Broad which is about r,6oo feet high, and the- highest point <>n mead, Barnstaple, and held since 1916 by the Rev. ~he west side of Exmoor. The soil is gravelly loam; Edward Eld Jackson. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in subsoil, slate and sandstone. The chief crops .are pasture, 1:.839. The common, which consisted of goo acres, was oats and barley. The parish includes the hamlets of inclosed in 1 86o. There are fortnightly sales of stock at Heale, 2 miles north-west, and Bodley, a quarter .mile Blackmoor Gate. Parracombe an~iently belonged to the nort-h ; the area is 4,451 acres ; rateable value, £3,636 ; :Fitzmartins, and from them in the nth century to the the population in xgn was 347· St. .Albyns, and remained in the hauds of that family Sexton, George Son{merville. "Ulltil 184o, when, the manor having been gradually Post, M. 0. & T. Office (letters should have Devon .d,ism~tntled, the remaining portions were sold by Lang added).-Miss Helena Crocome,. sub-postmistress ley St. .A.lbyns esq. of Alfoxton, Somerset, to the late ·.Rev. J. Pyke, rector of the parish. The principal land Public Elementary School (mixed), enlarged in 1882, owner is J. N. Pyke-Ellis esq. but many of the farms are for 70 children ; John Burden, master "held by small f'reeholders.. The estate called East Devon Constabulary, Henry H. Champion, sergeant in charge, & I constable Middleton.; was formerly the property of Sir H . PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Court Herbert William, auctioneer & Knight David, farmer, Heale Battersby Capt. C. H. Fernleigh cake, seed, manure & wool mer- Latha:r:n Fredk. R. Fox & Goose P.H Blackmore Henry Robt. Laurel hous!' chant; auctions held monthly at Lock Betsy (,Mrs.), farmer,Ea.Bodley Blackmore Mrs. W oodoot Blackmoor gate; res. London house. Lock Thomas, farmer, Holwell
Antell Thomas, jobmaster i Gammin Jsph. farmer, Sunny side Tucker Mary Ann (Mrs.)7 apart- Barrow William, blacksmith IGibbs Henry, farmer, Heale ruents, Court place Berry Samuel, farmer, Holworthy Hawkes George, grocer White Frederick, farmer, East Hill Bray John, farmer, Walnor Haydon William John, farmer White Emma (Miss), farmer, Bumps. Corner John, farmer, Middle bodley Jones William, farmer, Brakebrook ley mill P A YHEM:B URY is a parish and village, on the Tale, the gift of Exeter 'college, Oxford, and held since rgio a tributary of the river Otter, 2 miles north from Sid- by the Rev. Howard Lewis Parry B.A. of Corpus Christi mouth Junction station on the London and South College, Cambridge. The great tithes belong to Mn. Western railway, 5 north from Ottery St. Mary, 6 west Campbell-Wyndham-Long. The charities amount to from Honiton and 14 north-east from Exeter, in the £74 yearly. The view from the old Roman encampment Honiton division of the county, Hayridge hundred, of Hembury Fort, with its well-preserved triple line Dttery St. Mary petty sessional division, Honiton union of trenches is extensive. Ley Hill is the property of :and county court district, rural dea:m{ry of Ottery and Cedric Drewe esq. who is one of ~he principal hmd· archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. owners. Higher Leyhill is the property of Edward Mary, anciently belonging to Ford Abbey, is a building Reoginald Tweed M.D. Th& manor belonged in the reign of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chan- of Henry Ill. to the family of Giffard, ancestors of -the eel, nave 'lith four bays, north aisle, south porch and an Earl of Halsbuty; the manor of Morden, together with embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 bells: the manor of Tale, once held by Ford .Abbey, after the the chancel was restored and a stained window erected Dissolution, was successively in the families <>f Goodwin, in 1852, in memory of the Rev. Timothy Terry Jackson, Saunder and others. There are several .small land -vicar here from 181o, by Mrs. Catherine Messiter, in owners. The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay, sand and 'the chancel~ in the spandrils of a window are the initials stonebra~h. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, "'' T .C." and a pastoral staff with the letter "C," for roots and pasturage. The area is 2,737 acres; rateable 'Thomas Chard, last abbot of Ford; the · arms of value, £4,51q; the population in 19II was 426. {Jourtenay appear on one of the pillars: a very fine Sexton William Pearcy wood screen, painted and gilt and bearing the Bourchier ' . . · "knot and the arms of Courtenay, Fenner8 and Malh~rbe, Post '?ffice. Wilham Hole, sub-postmaster. LetteT.s divides the chancel from the nave and there is a'nother received from Ottery St. Mary, Devon. B-roadhem- .in the north aisle; the rood loft stairs also remain : bury & Talaton, both 3 miles distant, are the nearest there are monuments to Mrs. Dorothy Goswill and the _money order & telegraph offices Rev. Timothy Terry, 1745: the vestry was built in 1887 Pillar Letter Box, Hembury F?rt -and- contains a list of rectors and vicars fl'Om 1236: Wall Letter Box, Lower Cher1ton there are 280 sittings. In the churchyard is a yew Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1851 & en- tree, whicn appears to be several centuries- old, the larged in 1894, far 125 children; Mrs. Emily Coles, trunk of which has been split in four. The register of mistress baptisms and marriages dates from the year 1559; This school is in the area of the Honiton Centre School ~urials, 1678. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Sub-Committee; ;E. W. IHellier, High street, Honiton, {.3oo, including 8r acres of glebe, with residence, in clerk {Marked thus * receive their letters *Price William John Augustus, St. *Worthington Robert .Alfred O.B.E., · through Honiton.) Rest~ Hembury Fort B.A., F.R.O.S.Eng. Hembury Hill PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Tweed Edward Reginald M.D.Brux. COIIMERCTAL: GJanville William John, Moor cottage (county coroner for Honiton dis- Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. *Mannington Rev. Ewart Gladstone trict). Hembury Fort Cros!l Averill G. E. farmer, Higher Ley bill B.A. Moridunum, Hembury Fort *Vaughaa Miss, Hembury Fort Blackmore John Moore, farmer, Tuck Marks James. Culver house Venn Miss Gwen Warren, Raycote Mill farm Parry Rev. Howard Lewi~ B ..!.. Warren Frank William F. Cokesputt 1Bye George, farmer, _Lower Milton (vicar), Viearage Carnell Arthur H. bmlder, Colestocks DEVON 15f