SAMPFORD-SPINEY

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

"SAMPFORD-SPINEY, a parish in the hundred of Roborough, county Devon, 4 miles S.E. of Tavistock. Plympton is its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Spiney, and is wholly agricultural. Here is a mine where cobalt and silver have been worked. This parish borders on the confines of Dartmoor, and is intersected by the Plymouth tramway. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to that of Shaugh, in the diocese of Exeter, value respectively £107 and £54, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, to whom the impropriate tithes belong. The church was partially built by the Incorporated Society."