Description
Halwell, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 5 1/2 miles SSW of Totnes town and station on the G.W.R., and has a post office (R.S.O.); money order office, Totnes; telegraph office, Harberton. The parish includes also the hamlet of Washbourne. Acreage, 3335; population of the civil parish, 314; of the ecclesiastical, 295. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The church is ancient, but very good, and consists of nave, chancel, and south aisle, with square tower. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
