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Lustleigh Entry

William White

History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Devon. (1878-1879). London: Simpkins, Marshall & Co. p. 530

Index prepared by Michael Steer

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LUSTLEIGH, or Listleigh, a parish and a small village on the Great Western Railway, is situated in a romantic comb, opening to the valley of the West Teign, or Bovey river, 3½ miles SSE of Moreton Hampstead. It is in Newton Abbot union, Newton Abbot and Torquay county court district, Crockernwell petty sessional division, Eastern division of the county, Totnes archdeaconry and Moreton rural deanery. It had 318 inhabitants (159 males, 160 females) in 1871, living in 64 houses on 2939 acres of land. Half of the parish is open commons and waste and the Eastern side of Dartmoor. On the common called Lustleigh Cleve, is a fine range of rocks and crags; and in the vicinity is a logan stone, and some other Druidical remains. The manor was dismembered many years ago, and the soil belongs to Thomas Wills and Frank Wills Esqrs., Rev T. Gould, and several resident freeholders. Barne Court was anciently the seat of the Barnehouse family. The CHURCH (St John) is an antique fabric with a tower containing five bells. In niches in the wall of the north aisle lie the effigies of Lord and Lady Dinham, and against the East wall of that aisle is the figure of a crusader supposed to represent Sir William Prowse. The font is Norman, and the finely carved oak screen has been recently restored in the centre with great care. Several of the windows are enriched with stained glass. The living, a rectory valued in K.B. at £16 7s 6d is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev F Ensor, BA. The tithe rent charge is £200, and there are 36 acres of glebe. The house is large and handsome, and a large part of it is of very early date. The BAPTISTS and PLYMOUTH BRETHREN have chapels here. The SCHOOL BOARD was formed on November 13, 1875, and consists of 7 members, 2 being members of the contributory parish of Bovey Tracey. The members are the Rev F Ensor (chairman), and Messrs Thomas Wills (vice-chairman), Thomas Amery, H Clarke and T French. Mr Thomas Amery of Sanduck farm, is clerk to the Board. The school, with teacher's residence was erected in 1876, at a cost of nearly £1200, to accommodate 75 children. There is an endowment of the present value of £8 10s which, subject to the approval of the Charity Commissioners, is applied by the feoffees to the maintenance of a Sunday school.

POST OFFICE at Mr John Bennett's. Letters are received at 9.5 a.m. from, and are despatched at 4.50 p,m. to, Bovey Tracey, which is the nearest Money Order Office'

Amery, Joseph, farmer, Barne

Amery, Thomas, farmer, South Harton

Amery, Thomas jnr, farmer, Higher Coombe

Bennett, John, blacksmith & post office

Bond, James, farmer, Middle Coombe

Buckworth, Rev Thomas H, curate, Hill cottage

Burch, Arthur, solicitor, Exeter; h Mapstone villa

Chamberlan, Edward, farmer, Rudge

Clarke, Mr Herbert, Woodfield

Easton, George, lodgings, Grove villa

Easton, John, carpenter & parish clerk

Endicott, George, baker and miller

Ensor, Rev Frederick, BA, rector

French, Thomas, farmer, Barne

Gould, Mr James, Coombe cottage

Harris, Nicholas, farmer, Caseley

Henwood, Richard Skewes, farmer and victualler, Cleve Hotel, (family, commercial and posting)

Knapman, Miss S A. Board schlmstrs

Lamb, James, blacksmith

Nickols, Samuel, sexton

Powsland, John. clerk-in-charge, Railway station

Richards. John, shoemaker

Steer. Joseph, carpenter & whlwright

Wills, John, farmer, Higher Hisley

Wills, Thomas, farmer and owner, East Wray

RAILWAY- John Powsland, clerk-in-charge.