Description
Ideford, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the side of Great Haldon, 2 1/2 miles SE of Chud-leigh station on the G.W.R. branch line, and has a post office under Newton Abbot; money order and telegraph office, Chudleigh. Acreage, 1440; population, 286. Lord Clifford is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £280 with residence. The church has a pinnacled tower; in 1884 three new bells were added, and in 1887 the whole building was restored.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
