Ugborough, Devon

Description
Ugborough, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile SSW of Kingsbridge Road station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Ivybridge; money order and telegraph office, Ivybridge. The parish contains also five hamlets and part of Ivybridge. Acreage, 8955; population of the civil parish, 1443; of the ecclesiastical, 1224. There are many pleasant residences. The living is a vicarage, with Avonwick annexed, in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £180 with residence. The church is Later English, with an embattled western tower. There are Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist chapels and a reading-room. The Plymouth Borough Asylum for private and pauper patients is situated in this parish, and was opened in 1891; it is a structure of granite and red brick, with a chapel attached, and is adapted for 230 patients.