Description
Buckerell, a parish in Devonshire, on Icknield Street, the river Otter, and the L. & S.W.R., 2 1/2 miles from Sidmouth Junction. It has a post office under Honiton, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1340 ; population of the civil parish, 243; of the ecclesiastical, 274. Buckerell Lodge and Hembury Fort are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diftcese of Exeter; net value, £161 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The church is cruciform, and has a richly carved oak screen.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
