Description
Broadhempston, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 2 miles from the Dart river, 2 1/4 from Staverton station on the G.W.R., and 4 N of Totnes, under which it has a post office; money order office, Ipplepen; telegraph office, Totness. The parish comprises 2200 acres ; population of the civil parish, 525; of the ecclesiastical, 516. The manor belonged formerly to the Cantelupes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £280. Patron, the Crown. The church consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, and has an ancient oak screen. It was partly restored in 1879. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
