Slapton Transcribed from - Morris and Co.'s Commercial Directory and Gazetteer. 1870   Please notify me of any errors. Contact.   Transcribed by Val HENDERSON Checked by --Unchecked   Page 865     SLAPTON is a village and parish in Kingsbride union, containing, by the census of 1861, 681 inhabitants, and 3430 acres; in the deanery of Woodleigh, archdeaconry of Totnes, diocese of Exeter, hundred of Coleridge, South Devonshire; 7½ miles south-west from Dartmouth, 7½ east from Kingsbridge, and 12 south from Totnes, on the sea coast overlooking Start Bay. The vicarage, in the incumbancy of the Rev. Richard Antram, M.A., is values at £96 per annum, and is in the patronage of trustees. The church is an ancient edifice, dedicated to St. James, consisting of nave, chancel, and north and south aisles, with tower and five bells. A Collegiate Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, with a perpetual chantry of five priests, and a rector and clerks, was founded here, in 1373, by Sir Guy de Briant, or Brent, who appropriated to its use the parish church of Poundstock, in Cornwall, to which Loddiswell was added in the year 1413. One of the priests was the minister of Slapton; it was dissolved in 1545. A fine moss-covered tower, of the Pointed period, situate in the garden of the Rev. Richard Thomas Blagden, M.A., at the top of the village, is all that remains of the Collegiate Church. The Bible Christians and Wesleyans have places of worship here. This manor was formerly held of the Bishop of Exeter, by the Earl of Devon, on condition of acting as steward at the installation feast of new bishop. The correspondence between Bishop Stapleton and Hugh de Courtenay, Earl of Devon, on this subject, is dated from Newton Plympton. There is a school for children of both sexes, which has an endowment, out of which there is also a fund for apprenticing poor children. Clergy and Gentry. Antram Rev. Richard, M.A., vicar, Hill cottage Blagden Rev. Richard Thomas, M.A. (curate in sole charge of Street), Priory house Bastard Richard, Esq., Prospect house Bowden Mr. Edward Bowden Mrs. Susan Crozier Acheson, Esq., R.N., Mingles Hayward Charles, Esq., Start Issell Mr. Thomas, Vine cottage Kellond Mr. William Paige Miss Ann Tucker Richard Paige, Esq., Start Wakeham Mr. Edward, Bowden Trades and Professions. Andrews William Luscombe, farmer, South grounds Bastard Wm., farmer, Higher Coltscombe Bastard Wm., miller, Deer Bridge mill Bowles Joseph, carpenter Brown John, farmer, Clove valley Buckbit John, miller, Garabridge mill Came Richard, miller, North mill Cawse Richard, farmer, Dereswell Ching John Symonds, farmer Ellis Eli, farmer, Scareswell Fairweather Henry, farmer, Lower Coltscombe Foale Philip, farmer, Alston Fogwill William, mason Grills John, jun., farmer, Pittiford Hayman Philip, farmer, Goldswell Head John, machine maker Hodge Henry Page, farmer, Buckland Hyne Roger, blacksmith and parish clerk Ingram Richard, farmer, Alston Jarvis Abraham, farmer, Lower Heathfield Jeffrey Robert, baker, "Queen's Arms" Knowles Robert, thatcher Knowles Thomas, shoemaker Lambert John, shoemaker Lee James, baker and shopkeeper Michelmore John, carpenter Mortimer Joshua, tailor Murch Henry, farmer, Higher Heathfield Norrish George, mason Norrish Timothy, mason Paige Robert, farmer, Dittiscombe Parker Nathaniel Wilkinson, "The Sands" family and commercial hotel and posting house Pepperell John, butcher Pepperell John, shoemaker and sub-postmaster Pepperell Robert, painter and glazier, "Tower" inn Pike Robert, tailor Putt Robert, farmer, Newton Soper John, butcher and shopkeeper Soper John, painter and glazier Tozer John Langley, farmer, Loworthy Tucker Charles, jun., farmer. Pool Tucker Crispin, farmer, Pool Tucker John, farmer, Thorn Tucker Richard Paige, surgeon, Start Walters James, farmer, Blackland Weeks Mrs. Elizabeth, day school Weeks John, mason White William, farmer, Hansel Willing William, miller, Lower North mill Wills Edward, shopkeeper Wills Richard, blacksmith ~ Post Office - John Pepperell, sub-postmaster. Letters from Dartmouth arrive at 10.10 a.m.; dispatched at 3.45 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Torcross ~ Free School - Edward Street, master ~ Carrier - Jas. Lee, to Dartmouth, Friday; Kingsbridge, Wednesday and Saturday     TOP MY HOME PAGE RETURN TO 1870 LIST Updated 20/11/01 Please Report any non-working links. Please feel free to use the information on this page for your own personnel research, but please DO NOT use it for commercial purposes or financial gain. Thankyou. © 2001 Transcriber and Checker as named above.