St Budeaux, Devon

Description
Budeaux, St, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the Hamoaze estuary, near the Albert Bridge and the Saltash station of the Cornwall railway, 4 miles NW of Plymouth. It has a post, money order, and. telegraph office under Devonport, and a station on the L. & S.W.R. Acreage of civil parish, 2650; population, 2470. The parish includes also Honicknowle and King's Tamerton, and Knacker's-KnowIe and Whitleigh. The manor belonged anciently to the Budocksheds, and an ivy-covered tower of the old manor house remains. Nearly 100 acres of rich land have been reclaimed from the bed of the estuary. A powder magazine was constructed in 1857 at Bull Point. The church and churchyard were strongly fortified in the Civil War by the Royalists, and stormed and taken by the Parliamentarians. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £105. Patron, the Vicar of St Andrew, Plymouth. The church is a neat edifice of 1569, was the marriage-place of Sir Francis Drake, and contains monuments of the Budocksheds and the Gorges. There are also several Church of England mission chapels, as well as two Methodist and a New Connexion one in the parish.