Description
Lew Trenchard, a parish in Devonshire, on the rivulet Lew, 2 1/2 miles N of Coryton station on the G.W.R., and 8 1/2 N by W of Tavistock. It contains the greater part of Lewdown village. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Lewdown. Acreage, 2238 ; population of the civil parish, 266; of the ecclesiastical, 281. Lew House, an old and interesting mansion, is the seat of the Gould family, The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £246 with residence. The church is ancient but good; consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower, and contains monuments of the Goulds.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
