Description
Milton Damerel, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the river Waldon, 5 miles NNE of Holsworthy station on the L. & S.W.R., and 12 SSW of Bideford; was anciently known as Middleton, and has a post office under Brandis Comer; money order and telegraph office. Holsworthy. The parish contains also the hamlets of Whitebeare, East Wonford, and West Wonford. Acreage, 4416; population of the civil parish, 464; of the ecclesiastical, with Cookbury, 618. The living is a rectory, with Cookbury annexed, in the diocese of Exeter; joint gross value, £420 with residence. The church is ancient, and consists of nave, aisles, and transept; the tower fell in 1879. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
