DIREOTOBY.] DEVONSHIRE. LYUFORD. 299 with some wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 5,999 POST OFFICE.-Miss Mary Jane Llewellyn Stamp,'post- acres; rateable value,£5,oI3 ; the population in 1881 was 601. mistress. Letters arrive from Honiton at 9.20 a.m. ; dis- SRAPCOMDE, 2~ miles south-west, is a tithing, and was patched at 4 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph formerly a manor. office is at Honiton BEACON, I mile east from the church; SRAW, 3 miles National School (mixed), erected, with teachers' residence, in south-east, near the River Otter; and WEEK, 2 miles south, 1873, at a cost of about £900, for 120 children; average are hamlets. attendance, 75; George James Berry, master; ~Irs. Char- Parish Clerk, George James Berry. lotte Berry, mistress Greenway E. M. Greenway house Harding James, farmer, She1f farm Sage William, farmer, Overday Helyar Mrs. Halsden Hartnell Robert, farmer,HigherShaugh Salway John Week, tailor Perrott Rev. William Thomas, Vicarage Hayman Adolphus Gustavus, farmer, Salway William,farmer,Greenway farm COMMERCIAL. Moorlands Salway William, jun. farmer, Dolish Batten William, farmer, Woodhayes Johns?n James, farmer, qully hayes Stamp Mary Jane Llewellyn (Miss), Berry Willill.m, farmer, Odle farm Lovendge Isaac, blacksmIth & farmer Post office Blackmore Wm.farmer,Mohun's Ottery ILocock Charles~ farmer, Palmer hayes Summers Samnel, far~er, Blackenfield Broom William farmer Pitt farm Manfield Rt. bmldr.&wheelwt.Eeacon ct Trenchard Samuel, daIryman, Shap Clapp William, 'farmer, 'Mathayes Manley Robert, farmer, Shelf Tucker William, farmer, Stockers Week Coles Samuel, farmer, Higher Shelving Palmer John, carpenter, Pyles cottage Venn John, farmer, Mount Stephen Davey Robert, corn miller (water) Pearcy John, farmer, Barbers ~arren Jos~ph, farmer, Coombes head Davey Robert, jun. farmer, Barnfield Pearn Joseph, farmer, Calbayes "Warren Josmh, farmer Dimond James, farmer, Windsor Phillips Henry, farmer, Red doors Warren Thomas, farmer, Spurtem Dimond Joseph, farmer, North week Pile John, farmer, Week Webber Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Hillend Ewins Francis, farmer, Pound Pring Joseph, farmer, Newhouse White Samuel, dairyman, Barn Griffin Clement, farmer, Gully lane Pring Joseph, jun. farmer, Lowman's Wood Amos, farmer, Sharcombes • Griffin James, farmer, Whitehall Richards Frank, blacksmith, Beacon Wright Charles, Red Lion P.R Griffin John, farmer, Ford farm Sage John, farmer Wright Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper LUSTLEIGH is a parish and village, situated about a gate. Here is a small Baptist chapel and a meeting house mile west of the high road from Newton Abbot to Moreton for the Brethren. A handsome parish room was built in Hampstead, with a. station on the Moreton Hampstead 1888 in memory of the late rector. The Cleave is a pictul'­ branch of the Great Western railway, 10 miles north-by- esque ravine of granite rocks of considerable extent, and west from Newton Abbot, 4 south-south-east from Moreton surmounted by a bold sweeping brow; here also is a square Hampstead and 222! from London, in the Mid division of block of granite called" the Bishop's Stone," from the arms the county, Teignbridge hundred, Crockernwell petty ses- of Bishop Stapledon, which are said to appear upon it; it sional division, Newton Abbot union and countycourt district, is believed to be portion of a.n ancient cross. The celebrated rural deanery of Moreton, archdeaconry of Totnes, and Logan rock is about I! miles from the station. 'The chief diocese of Exeter. The church of St. John the Baptist is landowners are Mr. Thomas Wills, Mr. William Ameryand an old building of granite in various styles, in good repair, Mrs. Wise; but most of the farmers farm their own land. and consists of chancel, transept, nave, north aisle, south The soil is granitic; the subsoil, granite. The chief crops are porch and an embattled western tower of ashlar work, with wheat, barley, potatoes and turnips. The area is 2,286 acres; pinnacles, containing 5 bells: in the north aisle, within rateable value, £2,706; the population in r881 was 366. low arched recesses, are recumbent effigies of a knight in On March 25, 1885, a detached part of this parish, known as coif and hauberk, covered by a cyclas, and bearing a shield; Pepperdown, was amalgamated with Moreton Hampstead. and of a lady attired in a wimple and flowing gown; these PETRYBRIDGE,! mile west, and HAMERSLAKE, 1 mile figures appear to belong to the first part of tue 14th south, are hamlets. century; at the east end is a similar effigy of a knight Parish Clerk, Stephen Nickols. of somewhat later date; the whole are assumed to repre- POST OFFICE.-John Bennett, receiver. Letters are re- sent members of the Prous or Prouz family, and accord- ceiTed from Newton Abbot via Boyey Traceyat 8.25 ing to Risdon (survey of Devon 17l4-23) one of the shields a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order then bore the arms of this family: at the entrance of offices are at Moreton Hampstead & Bovey Tracey, I!i; the porch is a stone with a remarkable inscription upon telegraph office at station. Postal orders are issued here, it: there are four stained windows; the first is Norman: but not paid there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year A School :Board of 5 members was formed October 19, 1875; 1631. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge average Bovey Tracey is a contributory parish, with 2 members; £l71, net yearly value £125, including 36 acres of glebe, William Wills, East Wray, clerk to the board with residence, in the gift of and held since l888 by the Rev. Board School, built in 1878, for 80 children; avt'rage attend. Harry 'Tudor M.A. of Magdalen College, Cambridge, pre- ance, 65 ; J~mes H. Derbyshire, master bendary of Exeter and rural dean of Moreton, and surro- Railway Station, John Powlesland [Marked thus i/. receive letters through COMMERCIAL. *Hooper Edwin, farmer, Narramore Moreton Hampstead.) *AmeryJohnWestaway,farmer,Sanduck *Hunt Arthur Roope, farmr. !<'oxworthy PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Amery Joseph, yeoman, Barne Lambe James, blacksmith, Hillshay Amery Thomas, Mapstone Amery Thomas Sawdy, farmer, Lambe John, agricultural implement Clarke Miss, Woodfield house Higher Coombe maker, machinery agent, machinist & Collingwood Mrs. Mapston *Amery William, yeoman, Barnes general smith, & coal mer. Bridge pk Ensor Mrs. The Rectory Bennett John Mark, shopkeeper May Edwin, farmer, Rudge Fisher Rev. Wilfred M.A Carlyon Horatio, farmer, North Harton Reading Rooms (William Quinton, sec) Gibbons Mrs. St. George's Chudleigh John, shopkeeper Rimmington Anne (Miss), private school t Hunt Thomas H. Carew, Undercleave Dart Saml.miller (water),Lustleigh mill Westcott Richard, farmr. South Harton Jabet Miss, Rock mead Derbyshire James Henry, assistant Wills In.yeoman,HigherHisleigh&Waye Morriss Miss, South hill overseer & assessor of taxes Wills Thomas, yeoman, East Wrey Quinton William, Cleave view Easton George, builder,& lodging house Wise Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Combe Tndor Rev. Harry M.A. [rector.preben.of Guest James, market gardener, South Woodward WaIter, Clea,~e family hotel Extr.rurl.dn.ofMoretn.&surro.],Rcty hill & posting house Wise Mrs. Combe *Harvey Daniel, farmer, Fursdon LUTON, see BISHOP'S TEIGNTOK. LYDFORD is a parish, with a station li miles south of tion from Lydford to Plymouth. will furnish the South the village on the Launceston and Tavistock branch railway, Western Company with an independent line to Plymouth. 2071' miles from London, in the Western division of the The church of St. Petrock is a building of granite, in­ county, Lifton hundred, Tavistock petty sessional division, corporating remains of an older structure of frel'-stone, in the union and county court district, rural deanery of Tavistock, Early Perpendicular style, with some traces of Early English archdeaconry of Totnes, and diocese of Exeter, 7~ miles work, consisting of chancel, nave of three ba.ys, south aisle, uorth from Tavistock and l4 from Launceston. This place, south porch and an embattled western tower, with crocketed during the Saxon period and subsequently, was a borough, pinnacles, containing 5 bells, recast with additional metal and returned two members to Parliament from 1301 nntil in 1789, from a previons peal of three, by J. Pennington and 1307, after which the burgesses,"propter paupertatem," were Co. under a licence from the Bishop: in the west wall of excused: at the begmning of the reign of Edward 1. the the aisle are remains of the staircase to the rood loft; the assizes were held here and at Exeter alternately. Lydford east end of the aisle, formerly a chapel, retains a hagioscope station is the junction of the L. and ~. W. rail way with the pierced through these stairs, and a niche with a mutilated Launceston, Tavistock and Plymouth line of the Great female figure in alabaster: the priests' door on the south Western railway. The Plymouth, Devonport and South side of the chancel is now blocked and filled in part Western junction railway, now (1889) in course of construe- . with a square-headed window: the circular granite font