Description
Dalwood, sister parish to the adjoining one of Stockland, Devonshire, on the river Cory, 4 miles from Axminster station on the L. & S.W.R., and 6 E of Honiton. It has a post and money order office under Axminster; telegraph office, Seaton Junction and Axminster. Acreage, 1755 ; population, 390. The parish, annexed to the vicarage of Stockland in the diocese of Exeter, is in the sole charge of a curate. The church (St Peter) is in the Early English style, and was restored in 1881. There are Baptist and Bible Christian chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
