Description
Huish, North, a parish, with a small scattered village, in Devonshire, on the river Avon, 2 1/2 miles E by S of Kingsbridge Road station on the G.W.R., 7 SW of Totnes, and 1 mile SW from Avonwick station on the Kingsbridge branch line. Post town, Ivybridge. Acreage, 2733; population, 344. The manor house, Blackball, and Wetcombe, are chief residences. The parish is a meet for the South Devon harriers and the Dartmoor fox-hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £400 with residence. The church is Decorated English, and was repaired'in 1848.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
