Buckland Brewer, Devon

Description
Buckland-Brewer, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 3 miles from the coast, and 4 1/2 SSW of Bideford railway station, and has a post office under Bide-ford, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Great Torrington. It was formerly a market-town. Acreage of the civil parish, 6111; population, 684; of the ecclesiastical, 676. The manor belonged in the time of Henry III. to the Brewers, and belongs now to the Bolle family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £148 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church, which was restored in 1880 at a cost of £1500, is large, has a Norman door and a lofty tower, and contains many ancient monuments. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Bible Christian chapels.