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Lustleigh

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A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

LUSTLEIGH, a parish in the hundred of TEINGBRIDGE,county of DEVON, 5¾ miles (W. by N.) fromChudleigh, containing 325 inhabitants. The living is arectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese ofExeter, rated in the king's books at £16.7. 6. TheEarl of Ilchester and the Hon. P. C. Wyndham were1patrons in 1791. In the church are a wooden screenand three stone stalls, with the effigies of a knight andhis lady; and the windows exhibit some remains ofancient stained glass. In a lane near the church is"Bishop's Stone," a block of granite, five feet high, theremains of an ancient cross.