.­ DIRECTORY .1 DEVONSHIRK. COOKBURY. l55 ' Penwill & Son, builders Rowell Charles Hugh, farmer, Buck­ Fletcher .A.rthur, farmer Penwill Alice Maud (Mrs.), sh()p· land Barton (postal address, New- Hepper Agnes (Mrs.), frmr,Heywooda keeper, Post u:ffice ton Abbot) · Howard Brothers, market gardeners Penwill Charles Grant, assistant over­ White Anne (Miss), dress maker Wills Jsph. gardener to A. D. H.- H~ leer, clerk to the Parish Council, \Vright John, thatcher Reynell-Pack esq. J.P. Mill house achool manager &; collector of taxes • for the parish of Haccombe-with- NETHERTON. OOMBE CELLARS. Combe, Newton Abbot union Reynell·Pack Arthur Denis Henry Stigings Henry Geo. Ferry Boat inn;. Popkin John, jobbing gardener, Elm- Heber J.P. Netherton house the far-famed lunchebn & tea field cottage COMMERCIAL. gardens on the river Teign Reed John, Country House P.H Ashford Lewia, farmsr Richards Edith (Mrs.), tea gardens Ashford William, farmer, How MIDDLE ROCOMBE. • Clinnick Thomas, boot maker Mares William George, fa1·mer COMBPYNE is a parish and village, with a sta- the roof of the nave were restored in 1 IB78 : in the east uon on the Axminster "and Lyme Regis branch 'Of the wall of the chancel is a mural monument to Nicholas London and South Western railway, opened in August, Pinney, rector, dated December ISt, 1693; and there 1903, and is I. mile from the road leading from Lyme are tables to the Oke family, former residents in the Regis to Sidmouth and about 2 miles from the cele- parish : the church plate includes a chalice with hexa­ brated landslip at Dowlands, in the parish of Axmouth, gonal base and a paten, both of which belonged to the 3i miles e~ from Colyford station on the Seaton churoh prior to the Reformatjon: the church affords no branch of the London and South Western railway, 4i sittings. The register of baptisms dates from 168I ~ south from-Axminster and about u south-east from marriages, 1690; burials, 1691. The living is a rec­ Honiton, in the Honiton division of the county, hundred, tory, net yearly value [95, including 32 acres of glebe petty sessional division, union and county court district and residence, in the gift of Sh· Wilfrid Peek ba.rt. and of Axminster, rural deanery of Honit.on and archdeaconn held since 1918 by the Rev. Richard Spurrell M.A. of and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Mary. il1t\ a Corpm Christi College, Cambridge, who is also rectot­ amall and ancient building of stone, consisting of chalc~l, of and resides at Rousdon. Sir Wilfrid Peek bart. is aave, south porch and a belfry containing 3 bells: in lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is 1855, during the incumbency of the Rev. Zacha'ry .lames chalky; subsoil, sandstone. The crops are wheat, bar­ Edwards M.A. considerable alterations were made, when ley and pasturage. The area. is 79I acres; rateable ~he poroh was removed from the north to the south value, £6oS; the population in I9II was 104. 11ide, the interior renewed, re-seated and open seats Sexton, Joel White. substituted for the old pews : the stained east window Letters through Axminster. Rousdon is the nearesl is a memorial to two sons of the Rev. William Poulton, money order & telegraph office, I mile distant formerly rector, and there is also a stained window in The children of this parish attend the school at Rousdon the nave to Mrs. Pearse, dated 1875: the chancel and Railway Station, James Tupman, station master- Baker Robert Henry Cecil, resident Smith Albt. Harry, frmr. Dommett Spiller John. farmer, Lower farm , land agent to Sir Wilfrid Peek hart. Smith William, farmer, Manor farm Spiller Maurice, dairyman J.P. Manor housa Syiller Ernest, dairyman White George, earpenter Loveridge Joshua, blacksmith COMPTON GIFFORD was formed into a civil parish able value, £3,304; the population in 1901 was 271 in I8g8, and comprises that portion of the ancient parish and in Igii, 358. not incorporated with Plymouth in 18(}6: it is 1 mile - :aorth from Plymouth. in the 'Favistock division of the Wall Box., Redlands · . county, Roborough hundred, Midland Roborough petty Lette-rs are sent out for delive1·y from Plymouth. Nearest; sessional division, Plympton St. Mary union, Plymouth money order office is Collihgs..._ Park, Higher COmpton county court district, and within the ecclesiastical parish rr;ad & Mutley is the nearest telegraph tJffice, half a of Emanuel, Plymouth. The area is 166 acres; rate- mile distant • • PRIVATE -RESIDENTS: Heath William George, 1. Cross park Thorne Engineer-Capt. Thomas R.N~ Baillie Wm. Larson, Vinstone house Ives Mrs. Ellerslie, Russell avenue Gwavas, Russell avenue Bennett Miss .. Brookland lodge Jones Norris, Penkivil, Russell aven Thwaites Arthu11, II Redlands Beoobier Mrs. Pilgrims' Rest Knight Arthur Victor, 13 Redlands Tidboald William, Oakville ... Binmore Lieut.-Commander Henry Knight Richard Lyon, 2 Redlands Wa.:.Jl,e.ltl.< Thomas Alfred~ Lindores. Alfred R.N. 4 Redlands Larkman Alfred Ebenezer, 3 Redlands Russell avE!nue Bromhead Cuthbert Digby, The Laver Mrs. Nortonville Watt "1.leorge Seymour, Bretaye~ Bungalow, Russell avenue • Lowe James, Nortonville Higher Compton road Browne ..Miss, 5 Redlands Moon Edward, Io Redlands W eekes Mrs. Outlook Budge Henry, St. Merryn Munday Wm. Luscombe, The Arches Clark Capt. William Brent R.N. Norman Mi's. 2 Cross park COMMERCIAL. Fosse, Russell avenue Phillips King, Carhullen Billing John Williams, .nurseryman. Cross Charles, I Redlands Shannon Hugh, Hazledean Mount Pleasant nursery Dugga Geo. Randoff, Greystone house ~hapcott Richard .A.rthur, 6 Redlands Davy Arthur Cecil, rate collector, 8 Eadie William, Tedburn, Higher Skews Arthur Daw, Lanercost Widey view Compton road Smith Harry, 9 Redlandt~ Davy John, builder, 7 Young's ter Ellis Mrs. Hilcote, Russell avenue Steer Phillip, 7 Redlands Knapma,n Harry, dairyman,g Young'• Ellison John Henry, Hartley view, Stephens Surgeon Lieut.-Commander terrace Higher Compton road Horace Elliot Ros&" M.B.. R.N. Morgan :Mary (Mrs.), shopkeepar, 6 Glandfi.eld Archibald Willie, Heading- Kelvinside, Rus$ell avenue Young'.s terrace lay, Higher Compton road Step hens Mrs1 Cornorcroft Paynter John, builder Hari"is Richard, I2 Redlands Stone William Henry Edgcombe, Smith John Sidney, shopkeeper, S Harvey Samuel, Redland house Cross Park house Young's terrace Haywood Albyn J essop, Sidville, Bus- Teglio Wm. Restormel~ Russell aven Webber John&; Sons, nurserymen sell avenue COOKBURY is a parish and village, 3 miles north curiously carved, have 'been restored ; the pulpit. alliG from Dunsland- Cross station on the Holsworthy branch of oak and elaborately carved, was made from timber of the London and South Western railway and 4l north­ brought from Launceston church: there are ISO sittings~ east frl)m Holsworthy, in the Tavistock division of the The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year oounty, Elack Torrington hundred, Holsworthy petty 1749; marriages from 1754, and there are also entriea 1essional division, union and county court -district, rural hers of baptisms and burials belouging to the parish of deanery of Holsworthy., archdeaconry of Barnstaple and Milton Damerel from I749 until I791. The living is a diocese of Exeter. The church of St. John the Baptist vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Milton Damerei. is a very ancient and interesting edifice of stone in joint net yearly value ,£425, including 50 acres of glebe ~e Early English style, consisting of nave, north at Cookbury, and retiidence, in the gift of W. J. Holman aisle and south poroh and a wetJtern tower contain­ esq. and held since 1918 by the Rev. William Jamea ing 3 bells, the. first of which has an inscription in Holman M.A. of Ha.tfi.eld Hall, Durham, who resides u Lombardic cl!aracters and is cracked ; the second is Milton Damerel. There is a United Methodist chapel. inscribed " Soli. Deo. Gloria. " ; the tenor dates from In the yea.JL I817 Miss Bickford, of Dunsland, gave by I668 ~ the church was some years since restored and a wiU the interest of £459, to be equally divided every beautiful oak screen and an eagle lectern of the same year the poor of this parish and that of Bra,d;. material added; the old oak benches,. 1ome of which are ford. Mrs. Henry Fairfax Harvey, who ie lady of t.he .