Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LUSTLEIGH

LUSTLEIGH, a village and a parish in NewtonAbbot district, Devon. The village stands near the Moreton-Hampstead railway, 4 miles SSE of MoretonHampstead; and has a post office under Newton-Abbot,and railway station. The parish comprises 2,939 acres; of which 654 are common. Real property, £2,024. Pop., 322. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. The surface exhibits much picturesque and romantic scenery, and has many fine rocks and crags. Lustleigh Cleave is a widely secluded vale, flanked by hills which almost hide it from the search of travellers, and overhung by crags of fantastic form. One of the crags looks like a ruined edifice, is covered with ivy, and bears the name of Raven's Tower; and another has a shattered character, is a retreat of foxes, and bears the name of Foxes' Yard. There are some Druidical remains, and a logan stone. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £200.* Patron, the Rev. F. Ensor. The church is old but good; contains a carved oak screen, a Norman font, and monuments of the Dinhams of the time Edward II. or Edward III.; and has, at the threshold of its S porch, an inscribed stone of the RomanoBritish period. There are a Baptist chapel and a parochial school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lustleigh AP/CP       Devon AncC
Place: Lustleigh

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