Georgeham

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

GEORGEHAM, a parish in the hundred of BRAUNTON,county of DEVON, 8 miles (N. W. by W.) fromBarnstaple, containing 811 inhabitants. The living isa rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and dioceseof Exeter, rated in the king's books at £40. 17.11.and in the patronage of Sir A. Chichester, Bart. The churchis dedicated to St. George. Here is a charity schoolwith a small endowment, in which between twenty andthirty children are instructed.