Sampford Spiney

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

SAMPFORD-SPINEY, a parish in the hundred of ROBOROUGH, county of DEVON, 4¼ miles (E. by S.) from Tavistock, containing 333 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Shaugh, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church has lately received an addition of thirty-two free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £15 towards defraying the expense. The parish is situated on the verge of Dartmoor, and is intersected by the Plymouth railway. In the vicinity is a mine where cobalt and silver have been found.