Loxbeare

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

LOXBEAR, a parish in the hundred of TIVERTON,county of DEVON, 4¼ miles (N. W.) from Tiverton, containing138 inhabitants. The living is a dischargedrectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter,rated in the king's books at £6. 14. 9., endowed with£200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronnage of Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. The churchhas a rich Norman doorway and a Norman font.There was formerly a chapel at Leigh in this parish.