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A Topographical Dictionary of England
by
Samuel Lewis (1831)
Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)
BICKINGTON, a parish in the hundred of TEIGNBRIDGE, county of DEVON, 3¼ miles (N. E.) from Ashburton, containing 301 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Ashburton, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A fair for cattle is held on May 14th. There are two small endowed schools.