Knowstone, Devon

Description
Knowstone, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Mole, 3 miles from the boundary with Somerset, 8 E by S of South Molton, and 3 1/2 from East Anstey station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under South Molton; money order and telegraph office, South Molton. The parish contains also the hamlets of East Knowstone and Roachill. Acreage, 5144; population of the civil parish, 422; of the ecclesiastical, 954. The manor belongs to the Throckmorton family. Wadham was once the seat of the Courtenays, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Molland, in the diocese of Exeter; value, £490 with residence. The church is ancient, consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower, and contains monuments of the Cuime and Shapcott families. Sir J. Berry the mariner was a native.