Description
Down St Mary, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Taw, near Morchard Road station on the G.W.R., and 6 miles NW of Crediton. It has a post and money order office under Bow; telegraph office, Morchard Road station. Acreage, 2129 , population, 349. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £212 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and consists of nave, chancel, and south aisle, with a tower. It was restored in 1879.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
