Description
Worlington, East, a parish in Devonshire, 5 miles NE of Lapford station on the L. & S.W.R., and 6 E of Chulmleigh. It has a post office under Morchard Bishop; money order and telegraph office, Witheridge. Acreage, 5348; population of the civil parish, 419; of the ecclesiastical, 219. There is a parish council for East and West Worlington consisting of seven members. Roman coins and ums have been found, and remains exist of a curious ancient cross. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Portsmouth. The church is a building of stone with an embattled tower, and was almost entirely rebuilt in 1879. There is a Bible Christian chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
