Kilmington, Devon

Description
Kilmington, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands adjacent to the river Axe, 1 1/2 mile W by S of Axminster station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office .under Axminster; money order and telegraph office, Axminster. Acreage of parish, 1788; population, 558. The village was originally called Kilmenton; is said to have got that name, signifying " the place of slain men," from a great slaughter of Danes in the time of Athelstan; and has a cattle fair on the first Wednesday of Sept. The manor belonged to the Torringtons, but a great portion of the land came, about 200 years ago, into the possession of the Tucker family. Coryton .Park, the seat of the Tucker family, is a noble mansion of 1756, and commands fine views of the Axe and the Yarty valleys. Kilmington Hill is noted as the peculiar habitat of Lobelia wrens. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Axminster, in the diocese of Exeter. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1862, comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, and is in the Later English style. There is a Baptist chapel.