High
Bickington, Devon
Place
Entry from White's Devonshire 1878:
HIGH
BICKINGTON, 8 miles E. by N. of Torrington, and N.W. of Chulmleigh,
is a parish in Torrington union and county court district,
Great Torrington petty sessional division and rural deanery,
Northern division of the county, North Tawton hundred, and
Barnstaple archdeaconry. The parish includes North and South
Hele, Stowford, and other scattered farms. It had formerly
a market every Wednesday, which was discontinued about 1725,
and it still has a cattle fair on the Monday after May 14.
The parish is in several manors, and belongs to Mrs. Pyncombe's
Trustees, the Hon. Mark Rolle, Captain Shepherd and others.
Risdon says Athelstan founded a church here, and endowed it
with 2 hides of land, The CHURCH is an ancient structure,
consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, and tower containing
six bells, and was restored in 1873 at a cost of £500.
The church was newly floored, and reseated ; the gallery was
removed, and many new windows inserted. The rectory, valued
in K.B. at £39 7s. 7d., and in 1831 at £532, is
in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. Alfred Langdon
who has a pleasant residence and 157A. 3R. 34p. of glebe.
The BAPTISTS have a chapel here, and the poor have the interest
of £40 left by Joshua Tucker in 1721. The parish school
has £50 a year from Mrs. Pyncombe's Charity.
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