Egg Buckland

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

BUCKLAND-EGG, a parish in the hundred of ROBOROUGH, county of DEVON, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Plymouth, containing 954 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £8. 4. 4½., and in the patronage of the Crown. The Methodists have a meeting-house within the parish. A fair for live stock is held on the second Wednesday in June. The Plymouth railway crosses the parish. There is a small endowment for a charity school, which is chiefly supported by subscription.