Molland, Devon

Description
Molland, a parish, with a scattered village, in Devonshire, near the boundary with Somerset, 6 1/2 miles ENE of South Molton, with a station on the G.W.R. 188 miles from London. It has a post office under South Molton; money order office. North Molton ; telegraph office, South Molton. Acreage, 6262 ; population of the civil parish, 532; of the ecclesiastical, 954. The manor belonged to the Bottreaux family, and is sometimes called Molland Bottreaux; it afterwards passed to the Hungerfords and the Courtenays, and belongs now to the Throckmorton family. West Molland, about a mile from the village, is a fine old mansion. About 1700 acres are moorland or common. An ancient camp is under Molland Down. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Knowstone, in the diocese of Exeter; value, £490 with residence. The church is Later English; comprises nave, N aisle, and chancel; and contains monuments of the Courtenays, and one of the Rev. D. Berry.