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A Topographical Dictionary of England
by
Samuel Lewis (1831)
Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)
FREMINGTON, a parish in the hundred of FREMINGTON, county of DEVON, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Barnstaple, containing 1099 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £20. 0. 5., and in the patronage of the Rev. C. Hill. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is a place of worship for Independents. Fremlington is mentioned in ancient records as a borough, and it once sent members to parliament in the reign of Edward III. In the neighbourhood are beds of limestone, enclosed in a stratum of blueish building stone; pipe and potters clay are also found. At Fremington Pill, a small æstuary of the river Tor, coal barges discharge their cargoes, and merchant vessels await the spring tides. A salvage is claimed by the lord of the manor.