Lustleigh, Devon

Description
Lustleigh, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 4 miles SSE of Moreton Hampstead, and has a station on the G.W.R. 218 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newton Abbot. Acreage of the civil parish, 2978; population, 405 ; of the ecclesiastical, 399. There is a parish council. The surface exhibits much picturesque and romantic scenery, and has many fine rocks and crags. Lustleigh Cleave is a widely secluded vale flanked by hills which almost hide it from the search of travellers, and overhung by crags of fantastic form. One of the crags looks like a ruined edifice, is covered with ivy, and bears the name of Raven's Tower; and another has a shattered character, is a retreat of foxes, and bears the name of Foxes' Yard. There are some Druidical remains anda logan stone. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £127 with residence. The church is old but good; contains a carved oak screen, a Norman font, and monuments of the Prouzes or Dinhams of the time of Edward II. or Edward III.; and has at the threshold of its S porch an inscribed stone of the Romano-British period. Sir W. Prouz built the church and was buried in it in 1329. There are a Baptist chapel and a meeting-house for the Brethren.