Description
Diptford, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Avon, 5 1/4 miles WSW of Totnes. Avonwick station, on the Kingsbridge branch of the G.W.R., is a mile from the village. Gara Bridge station is in the parish. It has a post office under Ivybridge; money order and telegraph office, South Brent. Acreage, 4107; population, 586. Bradridge House and Courtis Knowle are chief residences. Diptford Court is used as a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; tithe commutation, £560 with residence. The church is Perpendicular English, consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, with tower and spire, and was repaired in 1870, and has a clock in the tower with a peal of six bells. There are quarries of blue slate.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
