Broad Clyst, Devon

Description
Broad Clist, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the river Clist, 5 miles NNE of Exeter, and has a station on the L. & S.W.R., 167 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Exeter. It was burnt in 1001 by the Danes. The parish includes also the hamlets of Bere and Westwood. Acreage, 9326; population, 2003. The manor belonged at Domesday to the Crown, was given by Henry I. to the Novant family, passed to the Chndleighs, the Arundells, and others, and belongs now to Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. Killerton, on which is Killerton House, the seat of the Acland family, belonged once to a family of its own name, passed through several hands, and was purchased about the middle of the 17th century by the Aclands. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £495. The church is Later English, has a lofty tower, and was repaired in 1833. The chapel of St Paul, Westwood, erected in 1873, is a building of stone in the Decorated style. There is a domestic chapel in the park of Killerton House. There is also a Baptist chapel.