DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. OTTERTON. 425 Watkins William, butcher, East street Workmen's Club (Mrs. W. H. Holley, president; F. 1. Weaver Reginald John, hair drssr. & tobccnst. II .Arcade Word en, sec. ; Herbert E. White, treas.), St. J ames st Webb William, hair dresser, Fore street Wright James, china dealer & ironmonger, Fore street Weekes Thomas, saddler, Fore street Yelland John, grocer, Northfield road Westoott Thomas Chamings & Co.drapers & grocrs.Fore st Yeo Eliza (Mrs.), tailoress, West street Wilkinsons Cat~rers Lim. Pretoria. wine stores, North st Yeo Bllac, tailor, dairyman & insurance agent, Fore st Wood Brothers, manure manufacturers Yoo William Henry, printer, West street Wood Henry, apartment!!, 7 Northfield road Youldon John, apartments, 2 Bra.ndis park Wooldridge Alice (Mrs.), milliner & dress ma. North st Young Edward Herbert M.IJ.Durh., D.P.H.Lond., Warden Emanuel, cabinet maker, West street M.R.O.S.Eng. surgeon & medical officer of health, Oke­ Warden Francis James, borough surveyor & sanitary in­ bampton borough & Rural District Council, Darley ho_ !lpector, Town hall Station road OKEH.!.MPTON RURAL. Northey Edmd. Pearse, Higher Bowdn Harris Hy. mason & farmer,Sharp hill Okehampton Bathing Association Lim_ COllliERCL"'L. Hodge Geo. farmer, Lower Halstock (Thos. Hy. Chamings, sac.),East pk Ball Joseph, fatmer, Wef!t Bowerland Badge Wm.Coombe,farmer, Moorgate Pellow Philip, farmer, Kerslake Blackmore William,farmer, Northwood Ingerson GilbP.rt, farm bailiff to Simon Priest John, farmer, Place Blatchford Thomas, farmer, East park P. B. Newcombe ssq. Ea.Bowerland Quance John, farmer, .Alforden Bray Willia.m, farmer, Stockley­ Jackman William, fmmer, Ohichacott Rowse Wm. farmer, Yelland .farm Brown George, farme·r, Fowley Kelly William, farmer, East park Seldon William John, farmer, Higher Brown "\Villi am, cattle dealer, farmer King John, farmer, Glendon Southcott & landowner, Hughslade Mladge Richard & Son, farmers, Es- Shobrooke Simon, fa.rmer,Higher Cr()ft Carr Charles, farm bailiff to Major­ trayer park Slader Susan (Mrs. ),farmr.Fatherford Gen. Edmund Hunt Holley R.A. Maynard John, farmer, Hill town Sloman Richard, faJTIIler, Knowle Bear farm Newcom'beHy. & Son,farmers,Kigbeare Sprague Jn. & Son, farmrs.Cbichacoti Cowling John, farmer, Hill farm :Newcombe George, farmer & apart- Squire John, farmer, Lower Croft Drew John, fanner, Alferdon ments, East park Voaden William, farmer, Youlditch Ellis George & Son, f~rmer, Lower Northey Edmund Pearse, farmer & WaltersRobert,farm bailiff to Edmund Maddaford & Higher Maddaford landowner, Higher Bowden P. Northey esq. Lower Southcott Ga.rd John & Philip, farmers,Youlditch Northey Wm. farmer, Brightley farm Watts Joshua,farmer,Barton Barn fMim""' OKEHAMPTON MONX, see Monkokehampton. OLDRIDGE CHAPEL is a detached chapelry of St. stone pulpit erected and stained windows inserted, includ. Thomas parish, nearly 3 miles south from Crediton station ing one to Mrs. Medley sen. mother of Dr. Medley, wb() on the London and South Western railway and 6' west was killed in a carriage accident at the foot of Whitest.one from Exeter, in the North Eastern division of the county, hill in 1843: the ~rms of the Buller and Yarde families petty sessional division of Wonford, union of St. Thomas, are emblazoned on wooden tablets within the church : the county court district of Exeter, rural deanery of Chris­ communion plate was given by James Buller esq. in 1789. tianity and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The There is no churchyard. The living is a perpetual curac:y hamlet and chapelry for civil purposes only has been an­ and was (previom to 1732) a peculiar of the dean aDll nexed to Whitestone by Local Government Board Order chapted of Exeter, net yearly value £52, in the gift of 16,545, March 25, I 884. A chapel existed here previous to (for the time being) a.nd held since 1874 by the Rev. the Reformation and fanned part of the property granted Mauriee Swabey M.A. of King's College, Windsor, Nova. by Henry VIII. to John, Lord Russell K.G. but appears Scotia, and vicar of St. Thomas's, Exeter, to which benefice to have been destroyed in the latter half of the 18th cen­ the chapelry has been certainly attached since 1616, if not tury by George Trowbridge esq. The present church, earlier. This chapelry or district, now comprising fiv~ erected on the site of the ancient structure in 1789, by estates, covering together 820 acres, was granted l>y James Buller esq. M.P. of Downes and Giles Yarde esq. Henry VIII. in 1539, together with the abbey of Tavistock, is a small building of stone in the Decorated style, con· to John Baron Russell K.G. afterwards rst Earl of Bedford si.sting of chancel, nave, south transept and a turret con­ and ancestor of the present Duke of Bedford ; it is now taining one bell : there are several stained windows, one the property of Gen. the Right Hon. Sir Redvers H. Buller being a memorial to the wife of the Rev. John Medley P.C., V.O., G.O.B., G.O.M.G. of Downes, Orediton, Wh() D.D. incumbent of this chapelry 1838-45 and Bishop of is lord of the manor, and Mr. John Dadd. Fredericton 1845-92: the roof is open-timbered, the pulpit of stone: the basin of the ancient font, exhumed during ThB nearest post offices are Whitestone or Tedburn St_ the restoration in 1g42, was then replaced, and. a suitable Mary, Exeter. The nearest money order & telegraph inscription added: the chureh was restored and lengthened office is at Orediton, 3 miles distant. Letters through by the add.ition of 8 chancel in 1 g42_3, at the joint expense "\Vhitestone, tues. thurs. & sat. arrive abljlut 10 a.m of the late James Wentworth Buller esq. M.P. and Dr. The children of this place attend the schools at Whitesto11~ Medley; at the same time a new roof was put on, a & Tedburn St. Mary's (Marked thus * should be addressed Drake John, farmer, Oldridge Barton; [ Dadd William, fanner, Cle'ave Tedburn St. Mary, Exeter.) & at Coombe *Hole John, woodman OTTERTON is a parish 11nd village on the eastern bank The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £230, including of the river Otter, near the English Ohannel and the road 24 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Hon. from Sidmouth to Tupsharn, with a station called East Mark Rolle, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Harold Arthur Budleigh on the branch line of the London and South Brownlow B..A. of .Tesus College, Cambridge. Here is a Western railway from Tipton St. John to Budleigh Salter- Wesleyan chapel, built in 1894 a.nd seating about roo ton; it is 3~ miles south-west-by-west from Sidmouth persons. There are charities of about £30 yearly, chiefly and 12 south-east from Exeter. in the Eastern division J arising from the interest of £5oo, recently given by tnB of the county, East Budleigh hundred, petty sessional Rev. James Boucher M.A. now (Igor)> of Budleigh Salter­ division of Woodbury, union of St. Thomas, county court ton, to be applied for the benefit of the poor of this district of Exeter, rural deanery of Aylesbeare and arch- parish at the discretion of the vicar and churchwardens. dea.oonry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Michael Here was anciently a Benedictine priory, which, in the was rebuilt, with the exception of the ancient tower, in reign of King John, was a cell to the .Abbey of Mount St. 1871 by Lady Uolle, at a cost of about £,r2,ooo, under Michael, in: Normandy; at the Dissolution the revenues the direction of the late Mr. Benjamin Ferrey F.S.A. and were estimated at £87. Fairs were customarily held on is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style and consists of Easter Wednesday and the Wednesday after October wth. chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches The Hon. Mark G. Kerr Rolle is lord of the manor and and e. tower with low spire at the cast end of the south principal landowner. The soil is partly heavy and partly aisle, containing a clock with chimes and 6 bells : the light loam; subsoil is chiefly red sand. The crops are very fine carved stone reredos, the pulpit and other carved wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is :-\,14-8 acres of work in the church was executed by Hems, of Exeter, land, 23 of water, 4 of tidal water and 122 of foreshore; and there are brasses to the Duke family, to whom the rateable value, £4,148; the populatioru in H)OI was 622, manor was granted by Henry VIII. ; these include one including Dotton farm and mill. to Richard Duke esq. ob. 1641, with.s sons and 2 daughters, NORTHMOSTOWN, miles north; PAS&AFORD, 3! 2 and another to Sarah (Reynell), wife of Robert Duke esq. th. PITSO"-T 1. rth d PI'T'\.T th- t b 6 ·th d d ht th · f th nor , ...,, 2 2 no , an ..,_,, 2 nor eas , ara o . I 41, dwl 3fsons dan f 5. alug ha.ferts: f e plberls o h e hamlets in this parish. nave area e are orme o smg e s s o mar e : t ere are Boo sittings. The register dates from the year l55Sl· Sexton, George Vinecombe. .