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NEWTON-TRACEY

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]

"NEWTON-TRACEY, a parish in the hundred of Fremington, county Devon, 4½ miles S. of Barnstaple, its railway station and post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the old road leading from Torrington to Barnstaple. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter, value £67. The church is a stone structure dedicated to St. Thomas-a-Becket."

Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003