DIRECTORY.) DEVONSHIRE. EAST ANSTEY. 21 Gloyn Francis Thomas, farmer, :U:mg- Rhymes Thomas, builder EASTON. brook Rich Thomas, baker & grocer Hosking Goorge, farmer, Oldway Shepherd '\Villiam, farmer,Woodhouse Barons Ernest, farmer, Lower East-on Langworthy John, farmer, Park Sheriff James, cabinet maker Barons William Henry, farmer Lidstone Frederick, farmer, Collapit South (The) Devon Ropery Co. (Wm. Luscombe Joseph, haulier & farmer John Thomas, manager) WOOL.STON. Luscombe Servington, farmer,Bagston Tallman Philip Henry, butche,r Luscombe William, farmer Wakeharu Fr~derick Percy, farmer, Rogers Richard, farmer, Cholwells Morgan Albert. assistant overseer & Youngcombe Rowe Edwin, farmer, Woolston court surveyor for Kingsbridge Rural Dis- Whiteway .Sarah Sophia (Mrs.), baker Sandover George, sen. farmer trict Council & gro~r Smale 'fhomas & William, farmers :Moore Osmond, farmer, Weston Wood James, farmer, Woolston villa/ AI.WINGTON is a parish on the high road from impaled shields of the Coffin family: there is also a bras!­ Bideford to Clovelly and Hartland, on the coast of the to Leonard Pine-Coffin esq. who wa.s drowned while­ Bristol channel, 4~ miles south-west from Bideford bathing at Santos, in Brazil, Jan. 21, 1898 : the­ station on the Torrington branch of the London and church was re-seated in 1840 at the cost of the­ South Western railway, in the ~orth Western division Rev. J. Pine-Coffin, then rector, and has 240 sittings. of the county, Shebbear hundred, Bideford petty sessional The register dates from the year rsso. The living is a­ division, union and county court district, rural deanery rectory, net yearly income £r88, with 70 acres of glebe, of Hartland, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Pine-Coffin, and held Exeter. The church of St. .Andrew is an ancient since rgor by the Rev. Henry Coleridge Spring B.A. of building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting Jesus College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel of chancel, nne, aisles, !!Outh porch, a. privats. chapel at Ford. The charities include the Wackerill charity of belonging to Major J. M. Kirkwood, of Yeo Vale, and a £5 rss. 8d.; the Morrison charity of £I Bs. yearly; and· picturesque western tower containing 6 bells, the fir;;t the Good Friday charity of £I Ss. Portledge, the pro. having a legend in crowned Lombardic characters, and perty of Mrs. Pine-Coffin, is at present occupied by Henry the second the words "sancta maria "; the third is daterl Johnson Mason esq.; Yeo Vale is a seat of Major James- 17r2, anrl the tenor has an invocation to the Virgin, in Morrison Kirkwoud J.P. Mrs. Pine-Coffin, of Kenwith lettering like that of the second: there are several manu- .Abbot sham, who is lady of the manor and William Bru­ ments and some memorial windows, three of which are to ton esq. of Brighton, Sussex, are the chief landowners~ the Kirkwood family: the reredos, pulpit and the manorial The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are­ pew are all of elaborately carved old oak: here was interred, wheat, ba.rley and oa,ts. The area i,s 2,746 acres of land Dec. 25, 1555, Richard Coffin, of Postlynch (Portledge); and 138 of foreshore; rateable value, £r,6n; the p-opu­ on June 13, 1569, Wilmot (Chudleigh) his wife, and on lation in 1901 was 312. March 30, 16o8, Jahn Coffin, of Postlynch: in the Fairy Cross, x mile north; Ford, r! miles north-eastp church is a monument with demi-effigies and busts of and Wood Town, x mile north-west, are hamlets in this q. children, to Richard Coffin, of Portledge, esq. ob. parish. July 25, r617, and Elizabeth (Lovis) his wife, ob. PDst Office, Fairy Oross.-Thomas Nancelcievill, sub- May 3, x65r, erected in the latter year by James, their postmaster. Letters ll'eceived through Bideford a.t 7-55 fifth and only surviving son; there all"e also inscriptions a.m. ; dispatched at 5.55' p.m. Postal orders are to four of their children, x654-62: and other memorials issued here, but not paid. Bideford is the neares!; to Richard Coffin, of Portledge, esq. ob. r6gg; John money order office & Horn's Cross the telegraph office, Coffin esq. ob . .July II, 1703, and Catherine (Kellond) miles distant his wife and Bridget (Coffin), widow of Charles Kellond, 2 of Painsford, esq. ob. March 14, r6g6-7 ; in the pave· Wall Letter Boxes.-Woodtown, cleared at 5.25 p.m.; ment of the nave is a stone with floriated cross and Town Fmm, 5·15 p.m. week days only insoription to George Dyell esq. ob . .August 29, 1513: National Church School (mixed), built in r836, by Mr:3. the bench ends have the letters R. C. and the date rs8o, & Miss Morris on, for 70 children; average attendance, and the arms of Risdon, and the pulpit is enriched with 48; Miss Amy Partridge, mistress .ALWINGTON. Daniel John, farmer, Gilscot "\Vade .Asa William, <farmer,Dotheridge Bruce Miss, Dotheridge Grigg Edward Owen, butcher, Ford Wakely William, farmer, Town farm Kirk~·rood Major James Morrison J.P. Jeffery Thos. miller (water), Ley mill '\Vickett Frederick Thomas, farmer. Yea vale Lee Charles, farmer, High park Chidlacombe Mason Henry Joh!!son, Portledge Loo William, farmer, Winscott Wickett Lewis Wm.farmr.Babbacomb Spring Rev. Henry Coleridge B ..A. Lobt Elam Thomas, farmer, Gifford's Rectory Ford FAIRY CROSS. COMMERCIAL. Lott Richard, carpenter & farmer,Ford Bailey Francis, assistant overseer, Sun- Pennington William, carpenter Colwill Richard, shoe maker bury cottage, Ford Serjeant Joseph Veal,farmer,Rollstone Kidwell William Richard, farmer Beer Stephen, rthrasbing machine pro- Squance Thomas, farmer, Woodtown Nancekievill Thomas, blacksmith, Post! prietor, Woodtown Squa.nce John, farmer, Moor Park frm office EAST ANSTEY is a parish, with a stg.tion on the Angel Spicer B.A. <Jf Emmanuel College, Cambridge,. Devon and Somerset branch of the Great Western rail- who is also vicar of, and resides at West .Anstey. .A way and is 4 miles south-west firom Dulverton, IO east woodcock revel is held the first week in October. The from South Molton & xBil from London, in the Northern northern pa.rt of the parish is occupied by a. common division of the county, South Molton hundred, petty nearly 2,ooo acres in extent, with an elevation of r,roo sessional division, union and county court district, rural feet. The trustees of the late W. L. Bellew esq. of deanery of South Malt-on, a1rchdeaconry of B.arnstaple HenspaTk, are lords of the manor and principal land­ and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Mi~hael, owners. The soil is clay on the south-west of the parish,. standing on a bill Boo feet above the sea level, at the head and shillett on the north-east; subsoil, clay and shillett. of a valley which extends in a westerly direction to The chief crops are oats, barley and cereals. The acreage· within a few miles of South Molton, is a. building of is 3,303; rateable value, £r,]z2; the population in rgox r.tone in the Early English style, with inserted Perpen. was 216. dicular windows, and consists of chancel, na.ve, ~uth Parish Clerk and Sexton, William Hancock. porch and an embattled west~rn tower containing 4 Letters through Dulverton R.S.O. (Somerset) arrive at bells: in the porch is a. portion of a Norman archway g.30 a. m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 4.30 p.m. with zigzag moulding: the church was restored in 1871 Dulverton, 4 miles distant, is the nearest money order at a cost of £Boo, and has 120 sittings. The register of & telegraph office baptisms and bucr-ials dates from the year 1596; A School Boa.rd of .'> members was formed Feb. 8, 1875 ; marriages, r674. The living is a rectory, net yearly Thomas Row, Hampton, clerk t-o the board value 1,153. including no acres of glebe, with residence, Board School (mixed), built in r88o, for 6o children; in the gift of the Rev . .Augustus Jessopp D.D. rector of average attendance, 53; Mrs. Eliza. Goddard, mistress­ Seaming, Norfolk, and held since r8g6 by the Rev. Railway Station, Joseph Edwards, station master Thomas Robert, The Rectory Drake Wm.Halse,fa.rmr.EastLiscombEJ PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Selwyn Jasper, Rhyll manor & Higher Garter John, farmer, Dunsley Beadon Lieut.-Colonel J obn H. J.P. town Hancock William, farmer, Oak Blackerton COMMERCU.L. Norman Walter, farmer, Yanney tfawker John Charles, Barton house Ball John, farmer, llungsland Nott Goorge, farmer, Cruse Ball Hosk.ins Thomas, Oak cottage Barber Thomas Barton. farmer Richards John, farmer & assistant Moon~ Samuel W. Dunsley Burrow Eli, farmers, \Voodburn overseer, West. Liscombe .