Cornwood, Devon

Description
Cornwood, a village and a parish in Devonshire, close to the borders of Dartmoor, with a station on the G.W.R., 233 miles from London, and 9 1/2 ENE of Plymouth, and a post and money order office under Ivy-Bridge; telegraph office, Sparkwell. The parish includes also the village of Lutton, several other small hamlets, and part of the chapelry of Ivy-Bridge. Acreage of the civil parish, 10,313 ; population, 1258 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1104. Fardell, a very old farmhouse in this parish, was the occasional residence of Sir Walter Raleigh. About 6000 acres of the parish are common and moor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £363 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is chiefly Perpendicular English, partly much older. The interior was restored some years since, and the chancel adorned with costly marbles and alabaster, by the munificence of the late Lord Blachford. The perpetual curacy of Ivy-Bridge is a separate benefice. There is a Congregational chapel.