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BURRINGTON

From

White's Devonshire Directory of 1890

Transcribed by Debbie Kennett

BURRINGTON parish includes the hamlet of Townbridge, and the village of Week, and is in South Molton union, county court district, and petty sessional division, Barnstaple archdeaconry, Chulmleigh rural deanery, and North Tawton hundred. Its village is pleasantly situated, 4 miles N.W. by W. of Chulmleigh, 2 miles S.W. from South Molton Road Station on the North Devon Railway. The parish had 776 inhabitants in 1881, and comprises 5330 acres of land. The Earl of Portsmouth has a manor and estate here; and J. G. Johnson, Esq. M.P., William Buckingham, Esq., Mrs Benson, Michael Leamon, Esq., Mr. E. Leamon, and Mr. W. Leamon have estates here.
       There is a small station on the L. and S. W. Railway called Portsmouth Arms Station.
       The CHURCH (Holy Trinity) is an ancient structure consisting of chancel, nave, and south aisle, and was restored in 1869 at a cost of £1100, raised by subscription. The handsome screen still remains. In the church is a monument to William Harvey, a vicar of the parish in the reign of Charles I. He was dispossessed of his living by Cromwell, but restored to it by Charles II. He died in 1662. The Register dates from 1606. The living is a vicarage, valued in K.B. at £13 11s. 3d., in the patronage of William Buckingham, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Mortimer Drury Buckingham, M.A. The tithes were commuted in 1838, the vicarial £260, and the rectorial for £308 10s. The latter belong to M. Leamon, Esq. The vicar's glebe is about 90 acres.
       The BIBLE CHRISTIANS and the PLYMOUTH BRETHREN have chapels here. The PAROCHIAL SCHOOL, with teachers' residence, was completed in 1857 at an expense of upwards of £700. The poor have £2 10s. yearly from Pyncombe's and Tossel's charities.
       The Earl of Portsmouth subscribes £10 yearly to the clothing club for the poor.
       POST OFFICE at Mr. Jonathan Pickard's. Letters are despatched at 6 p.m. on week days only, via Chulmleigh, which is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office.

Babbage James Ford, yeoman, Braggamarsh
Baker Mrs. Higher Curzland
Baker William Brayley, farmer, Cleave
Bates Thomas, vict. London Inn, farmer and shopkeeper
Boatfield Thomas, mason, North parks
Buckingham Rev Mortimer Drury, M.A. vicar, Vicarage
Buckingham Thomas, wheelwright, Moor End
Buckingham Mr. William, Northcote Manor house
Butler John, carpenter, Little Northcott
Butt Samuel, farmer, Churchland
Callard Wm. blacksmith, White Oak
Cole John, farmer, Hayne Barton
Cook John, tailor
Cooper Mrs Susanna, vict. Portsmouth Arms
Dillon John, yeoman, Pavington
Flew John, police constable
Ford John, mason
Fox William, yeoman, Curzland
Gay William, shopkeeper
Harris James, blacksmith & shopkeeper
Headon James, farmer, Hill
Heaman Robert, yeoman, Twitchen
Hyman William Thomas, farmer, Abbotts marsh
Knight Henry William schoolmaster
Macnamara Mr. Thos. Westfield house
Manning Charles, farmer, Cowlais
Manning Thomas, farmer, Week
Middleton Robert, farmer, Callard
Middleton Robert, farmer, Whitecleave
Miller Arthur, farmer & miller, Graze
Miller Wm. farmer & miller, Burrington mill
Mills Elias, farmer, Southdown
Nethercott John, carpenter, White Oak
Nethercott Robert, crpntr. Townbridge
Parry John, farmer, Litchland
Pickard James, farmer, Catham
Pickard Jonathan, draper, grocer, farmer & postmaster
Pincombe John, farmer, Hanford
Potter Samuel Sidney, farmer, Barton
Prouse Robt. Wm. farmer, Upcott
Prouse William, yeoman, Southcott
Richards James, farmer Elscott
Rippin Mrs Ann, farmer, Higher Hackney
Shopland Thos. vict. Barnstaple Inn
Small Mr, Northpark
Snell Robert, farmer, Higher Elscott
Snell Wm. blacksmith, Cleave down
Taylor Philip, yeoman, Golland
Taylor Robert, farmer, New house
Thomas Wm. L. & S. W. stationmaster, Portsmouth Arms station
Thorne Thomas, carpenter
Tucker Charles, farmer, Pool Batten
Tucker Richard, dairyman & farmer
Tucker Wm. shopkeeper & shoemaker
Turner John, farmer, Bedport
Turner John, farmer, Halsbury
Vicary Robert, farmer, Bridge
Webber George, farmer, Boutchland
Webber John, farmer, Lower Hackney
Westacott Wm. farmer, Barn Pool
Woolway Mrs Mary Ann, farmer, Townbridge
Woolway William, farmer, Pavington
Woolway Wm. farmer, Week Park