CADBURY

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

"CADBURY, a parish in the hundred of Hayridge, in the county of Devon, 6 miles to the S.W. of Tiverton, its post town. The Bristol and Exeter railway passes within a short distance. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Exeter, value £163, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There are some charities of small amount. Roman coins have been discovered here, and on the top of a neighbouring lofty hill are the remains of an ancient entrenchment called Cadbury Castle."