Description
Cadbury, a parish in Devonshire, 2 1/2 miles from Thorverton and Cadeleigh and Bickleigh stations on the G.W.R., and 6 1/2 ENE of Crediton. It has a post office under Tiverton; money order and telegraph office, Thorverton. Acreage, 1880; population, 234. The manor, with Fursdon House, belongs to the Fursdon family. Cadbury Castle is the remnant of an ancient British earthwork, was the rendezvous of Fairfax's army for several days in 1645, and has yielded a quantity of antique ornaments, found at the bottom of a well. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £126 with residence. The church is a substantial structure of the 15th century, and was restored in 1860.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
