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BERRYN-ARBOR

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

"BERRYN-ARBOR, a parish in the hundred of Braunton, in the county of Devon, 8 miles to the N. of Barnstaple. Ilfracombe is its post town. It is situated on the south coast of the Bristol Channel, near the pleasant watering place Ilfracombe. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter, of the value of £715, in the patronage of the bishop and others. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. This village was the birth-place, in 1522, of Bishop Jewell."

Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003