Heanton Punchardon

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

HEANTON-PUNCHARDEN, a parish in the hundred of BRAUNTON, county of DEVON, 4½ miles (W. N. W.) from Barnstaple, containing 485 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £22. 7. 11., and in the patronage of - Bassett, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Augustine, contains a handsome monument bearing the arms of the Coffin family; it has also a wooden screen. The navigable river Tor runs on the south of this parish.