Shobrooke, Devon

Description
Shobrooke, a parish, with a village, in Devonshire, 2 miles NE of Crediton station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Crediton; money order and telegraph office, Crediton. Acreage, 4259; population of the civil parish, 632; of the ecclesiastical, 579. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Shobrooke Park belongs to the Shelley family, who are lords of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is a building of stone about 200 years old, in the Early English style, and was thoroughly restored and enlarged in 1879. The tower is Norman, and is much older than the church. T. Westcote, the antiquary, was a native; and the Bodleys, of whom was Sir T. Bodley, the founder of the Bodleian library at Oxford, were at one time residents.