22- .ALVINGTON 'WEST. DEVONSHIRE. iity of the land is used for grazing. The area is 2,585 acres PosT OFFICE.-W. M organ, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive of land and 270 of water; rateable value, £4,835 7s. 6d. ; by mail cart from Kingsbridge at 7·I5 a.m. ; dispatched the population in r89r was 893. at 5·45 p.m. week days; sunday, I2.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Kingsbridge WooLSTON, I! miles south-by-west; EASTON, I south; National School (mixed), built in 1864 by the Rev. D. BowcoMBB, 2 north-east; and AonLEHOLE, I} north-east, McDonald, then vicar, & enlarged in I878, for I 50 children; ara hamlets. avera!;e attendance, 78; Edward Knight, master; Mrs. Parish Clerk, William Morgan. Jane Winter Goodman, mistress West Al vington. Farr Brothers, builders, contractors, Thomas William John & Co. Limited, Ambrose Joseph, Tacket wood architectural & ecclesiastical carvers, patent rope manufacturers, makers of Coaker The Misses, Westerland undertakers, painters, plumbers, strings, cords, bags &c. South Devon Houghton Rev. Prebendary Charles glaziers &c. The Works. See advert ropery; office, Mill street, Kings- Adams M. A. Vicarage Lidstone Frederick, farmer, Collapit bridge. See advertisement Ilbert The Misses, Norden Lidstone Susan (Mrs.)&William Henry, Warren Edward, builder Ilbert Wm. Roope J.P. Bowringsleigh farmers, Longbrook Whiteway Ernest, baker, grocer & Luskey John, So bey Luscombe Joseph, haulier general provision dealer M organ Albert, farmer & assistant over· Easton. COMMERCIAL, seer Balkwill Robert, farmer, Park Morgan William, blacksmith & farmer, Barons William Henry, farmer Bell Robert Lavers, farmer, Preston Post office Woolston. Boon Edwd.coach buildr.Square's quay Pitts George, farmer, Gerston Harvey Richard, farmer Camp James, farmer, Heddiswell Pitts Henry, farmer, Bagton Lavers William, farmer Chapman Francis, builder Prowse John Woody, boot maker Rogers Richard, farmer Crispm Elam, baker Sandover George, jun. farmer, Wood- Sandover George, farmer Ingram Richard, farmer, Youngcombe house Sandover George, jun. farmer Jarvis Thomas, Ring of Bells P.R Sheriff James, cabinet maker Smale George, farmer ALWINGTON is a parish on the high road from Bide- Dyell esq. ob. August 29, 1513 : the bench ends have the ford to Clovelly and Hartland, on the coast of the Bristol letters R.C. and the date rs8o, and the arms of Risdon, and channel, 4! miles south-west from Bideford station on the the pulpit is enriched with impaled shields of the Coffin Torriugton branch of the London and South Western rnil- family: the church was re-seated in r84o at the cost of the way, in the North Western division of the county, Shebbear Rev. J. Pine-Coffin, then rector, and has rso sittings. The hundred, Bideford petty sessional division, union and county register dates from the year rsso. The living is a rectory, court distriet, rural deanery of Hartland, archdeaconry of average tithe rent-charge £r85, net yearly income £r52, Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St.Andrew including 70 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, Mrs. Pine-Coffin, and held since r88r by the Rev. consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a pictu- James Frith M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. There is a resque western tower containing 6 bells, the first having a Wes]eyan chapel at Ford. The charities include the legend in crowned Lombardic characters, and the second Wackerill charity of £6 7s. ; the Morrison charity of £r IOS. the words '' sunda mudu ; " the third is dated 1712, and the yearly ; and the Good Friday charity of 1.. I Ss. Portledge is tenor has an invocation to the Virgin, in lettering like that the residence of Mrs. Pine-Coffin; Yeo Vale is a seat of Major of the second: there are several monuments and memorial James Morrison Kirkwood J.P. Mrs. Pine-Coffin, who is lady win1ows : the reredos, pulpit and the manorial pew are all of the manor and William Bruton esq. of Brighton, Sussex, :of elaborately carved old oak: here was interred, Dec. 25, are chief landowners. The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay. The 1555, Richard Coffin, of Postlynch (Portledge) ; on June 13, chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The acreage is ·I569, Wilmot (Chudleigh) his wife, and on March 30, r6o8, 2,655; rateable value, £r,754; the population in 1891 was John Coffin, of Postlynch: in the church is a monument 348. with demi-effigies and busts of 14 children, to Richard FAIRY CRoss, r mile north ; FoRD, 2 miles north-east, Coffin, of Portledge, esq. ob. July 25, r617, and Elizabeth and Woon TowN, r mile north-west, are hamlets in this (Lovis) his wife, ob. May 3, r651, erected in the latter year parish. by James, their fifth and only surviving son; there are also PosT OFFICE, Fairy Cross.-Thomas Nancekievill, sub-post- insctiptions to four of their children, 1654-62: and other master. Letters received through Bideford at 7·55 a.m.; memorials to Richard Coffin, of Portledge, esq. ob. 1699 ; dispatched at 5·55 p.m. Bideford is the nearest money John Coffin esq. ob. July rr, 1703, and Catherine (Kellond) order office & Horn's Cross the telegraph office his wife and Bridget (Coffin), widow of Charles Kellnnd, of National Church School (mixed). built in r846 by Mrs. and Painsford, esq. ob. March 14, 1696-7; in the pavement of the the Misses Morri:son, for 70 children; average attendance, nave is a stone with floriated cross and inscription to George 6o; Miss Amy Partridge, mistress Alwington. Grigg Edward, butcher, Ford Serjeant Joseph Veal, farmer, Rolstone Hunt George Alfred,farmer,Cockington Squance John, farmer, Woodtown Frith Rev. James M.A. [rector], Rectory Lee William, farmer, Winscott Sqnance John, farmer, Moor Park farm Kirk wood Major James Morrison J.P. Lott Richard, carpenter & farmer, Ford Wakely William, farmer, Town farm Yeo vale Nancekievill Thomas, blacksmith, Post Wickett Frederick,farmer,Cbidlacombe Pine-Coffin Mrs. Portledge office, Ford, Fairy cross Wickett Lewis Wm. farmer,Babbacomb COMMERCIAL. Pennington William, carpenter • Colwill Richard, shoe maker Pennington William, farmer & miller Fa1ry Cross. · baniels John, farmer, Gilscot (water), Yeo vale Kidwell Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer EAST ANSTEY is a parish, with a station on the Devon Scarning, Norfolk, and held since I869 by' the Rev. John and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, r88 Owen, of St. David's, Lampeter. A woodcock revel is held ,miles from London, 4 miles south-west from Dulverton and the first week in October. The northern part of the parish ro east from South Molton, in the Northern division of the is occupied by a common nearly 2,ooo acres in extent, with county, South Molton hundred, petty sessional division, an elevation of r,wo feet. William Legassick Bellew esq. union and county court district, rural deanery of South of Henspark, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Molton, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The soil is clay on the south-west of the parish, and shillett The church of St. Michael, standing on a hill 8oo feet above on the north-east ; subsoil, clay and shillett. The chief crops the sea level, at the head of a valley which extends in a are oats, barley and cereals. The acreage is 3,245; rateable westerly direction to within a few miles of South Molton, is value, £r,728; the population in r8gr was 234. a building of stone in the Early English style, with inserted Parish Clerk and Sexton, John Jones. ,Perpendicular windows, and consists of chancel, nave, south Letters through Dulverton R.S.O. which is the nearest porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: money order &telegraph office, arrive at 9.30 a.m. WALL in the porch is a portion of a Norman archway with zigzag LETTER Box cleared at . p.m moulding : the church was restored in r871 at a cost of 4 30 _£8oo, and has r2o sittings. The register of baptisms and A School Board of 5 members was formed Jan. 15, 1875; burials dates from the year 1596; marriages, 1674, The Thomas Row, Bampton, clerk to the board living is a. rectory, average tithe rent-charge £r27, net Board School (mixed), built in x88o, for 6o children; aver- yearly value £123, including no acres of glebe, with resi- age attendance, so; Mrs. Eliza Goddard, mistress ·deuce, in the gift of the Rev. Augustus Jessopp D.D. rector of Railway Station, Joseph Edwards, station master Bellew William l..egassick, Henspark COMMERCIAL. Carter John, farmer, Lower Radnidge Dawkins Edward C. Rhyll manor Ball John, farmer, Bingsland Dommett John, farmer, West Liscombe Hawker John Charles, Barton house Burrow John & Eli, farmers,Woodburn Drake Wm.Halse,farmer,EastLiscombej Owen Rev. John, Rectory Carter George, farmer, Yanney Hancock William, farmer, Oak .