Description
Huxham, a parish in Devonshire, near the river Culm, 1 mile from Stoke Canon station on the G.W.R., and 4 miles NNE of Exeter. Post town, Exeter; money order and telegraph office, Thornton. Acreage, 779; population of the civil parish. 111; of the ecclesiastical, 472. Manganese is found. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Poltimore, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is Decorated English, and consists of nave and chancel, with S porch and small bell-turret; the nave was rebuilt in 1871. Lord Poltimore is lord of the manor. There is a small paper-mill.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
