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A Topographical Dictionary of England

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 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

HOLBETON, a parish in the hundred of ERMINGTON, county of DEVON, 3¼ miles (W. S. W.) from Modbury, containing 1083 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £24.1.8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Here was formerly a chapel dedicated to St. Leonard. The parish is bounded on the east by the river Erme, and by the English channel on the south. There is an endowed school for the education of ten girls, who are also clothed from the same fund.