Description
Giles, St, -in-the-Heath, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Tamar, near the Bude Canal and the boundary with Cornwall, 1 1/2 mile from Tower Hill station on the L. & S.W.B., and 12 NW of Tavistock. Post town and money order office, Launceston; telegraph office, Tower Hill railway station. Acreage, 3147; population, 262. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; gross value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The church is ancient, consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with a tower, contains many monumental memorials, and was almost entirely rebuilt in 1877. There is a Bible Christian chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
