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 Teigngrace

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A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

 

TEIGNGRACE, a parish in the hundred of TEIGNGBRIDGE, county of DEVON, 2 miles (N. by W.) from, Newton-Bushell, containing 131 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £5. 9. 4., and in the patronage of G. Templer, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome edifice, rebuilt in 1787, by James Templer, Esq., George Templer, Esq.,- and the Rev. John Templer, brothers. Among other monuments of that family, it contains one to the memory of Charles Templer, who perished in the wreck of the Halsewell East Indiaman, on the Dorsetshire coast, in 1786. The Stover canal and railway, constructed by the Templer family, facilitate the exportation of potters' clay found in the neighbourhood, and of granite from the extensive quarries near High Tor. There is a large National school, supported by subscription.