Description
Luffincott, a parish in Devonshire, on the Bude Canal and the river Tamar, at the boundary with Cornwall, 6 mile;£ S by W of Holsworthy, and 5 from Tower Hill station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Launceston; money order and telegraph office, Holesworthy. Acreage, 1477; population of the civil parish, 101; of the ecclesiastical, 68. Th manor was anciently called Loghincot, and was held by a family of the same name from the time of Henry III. till that of Henry V. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £67 with residence. The church is modern.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
