Description
Tawton, North, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village has a station on the L. & S.W.R., 191 miles from London, and 6 1/2 NE of Okehampton, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish includes Week hamlet, and comprises 5967 acres; population of the civil parish, 1737; of the ecclesiastical, 1682. There are a woollen and serge manufactory, and a copious intermitting spring. The market is held on Thursday, and cattle fairs are held in April, October, and December. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £800 with residence. The church is old, and has been restored. There are Congregational, Bible Christian, and Wesleyan chapels. A clock tower of red brick was erected in 1887.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
