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Beaworthy
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A Topographical Dictionary of England
by
Samuel Lewis (1831)
Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)
BEAWORTHY, a parish in the hundred of BLACK-TORRINGTON, county of DEVON, 7½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Hatherleigh, containing 299 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £6. 6., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir William Molesworth, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Alban.