Hennock, Devon

Description
Hennock, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands above the river Teign, 1 1/2 mile from Trusham station on the G.W.E., 2 miles from Bovey Tracey, and 6 from Newton Abbot. It has a post office under Newton Abbot; money order and telegraph office, Bovey Tracey. The parish includes also the hamlet of Chudleigh Knighton. Acreage, 3299; population of the civil parish, 685; of the ecclesiastical, 327. The tract around the village is romantic, and abounds with lofty picturesque rocks, one of which, called the Better rock, commands an extensive view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £175 with residence. The church is Early Perpendicular English, and has a turreted tower. It was thoroughly restored in 1873. There are a chapel of ease, in the Early English style, at Chudleigh Knighton, and a small Wesleyan chapel in Hennock village. Chudleigh Knighton was formed into a separate ecclesiastical district in 1880. Population, 289, The church of St Paul is small, in the Early English style. The living is a consolidated chapelry; gross value, £230. Pitt House and Stokelake are chief residences.