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A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

DOWN (WEST), a parish in the hundred ofBRAUNTON, county of DEVON, 4 miles (S.) fromIlfracombe, containing 562 inhabitants. The living is adischarged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple,and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at£8.14. 9., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter.The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, contains amonument to the memory of Sir J. Stowford, a justiceof the common pleas in 1343, for the welfare of whosesoul the prior of Wells founded a chantry, and endowedit with a stipend for the maintenance of a priest.