Description
Loxhore, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on a hill, amid very fine scenery, 6 1/2 miles NE by N of Barnstaple station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R., was originally called Lockeshore, and is a very scattered place. It has a post and telegraph office at Bratton Fleming. Acreage of civil parish, 1553; population, 192; of ecclesiastical, with Arlington, 430. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £230. The church is ancient and good, and has a tower with a peal of four bells; it was restored in 1880-81. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
