LUSTLEIGH

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

"LUSTLEIGH, a parish in the hundred of Teignbridge, county Devon, 7 miles W. of Chudleigh, and 10 N.W. of Newton Abbott, its post town and nearest railway station on the South Devon line. It is situated near the banks of the river Wrey, on the left of the high road from Newton Abbott to Moreton-Hampstead. The parish includes the hamlets of Pethybridge and Hamerslake, and the singularly rocky valley called Lusley Cleve. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £200. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £154. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient edifice with an embattled tower. It contains several monuments and effigies, also stone stalls. The charities produce about £8 per annum. Here are remains of a large stone cross, commonly called Bishop's Stone."