Dodbrooke, Devon

Description
Dodbrooke, a small town and a parish in Devonshire, a quarter of a mile from Kingsbridge station on the G.W.R. The town forms the eastern part of Kingsbridge town, is more ancient than Kingsbridge, belonged to the widow of Edward the Confessor, contains Pindar Lodge, the birthplace of Dr Wolcott better known as Peter Pindar, was the first place in which white ale was brewed, and shares generally in the trade of Kingsbridge. It has a large cattle market on the third Wednesday in every month. The parish comprises 775 acres of land and 94 of water; population of the civil parish, 1312; of the ecclesiastical, 1282. It has a post and money order office ; telegraph office, Kingsbridge. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £210 with residence. The church is very old, but was restored and greatly enlarged by the addition of a chancel and north aisle in 1886. There is a handsome oak screen, partially restored in 1892. There is a chapel for Bible Christians.