Werrington, Devon

Description
Werrington, a parish, with a village, in Devonshire, adjacent to the river Tamar, 2 miles N of Launceston station on the G.W. R. It has a post office under Launceston; money order and telegraph office, Launceston. Acreage, 5305; population of the civil parish, 658; of the ecclesiastical, 635. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belonged to Tavistock Abbey, went at the dissolution to the Russells, and belongs now to the Duke of Bedford. Polapit Tamar and Werrington Park are both handsome residences standing in extensive grounds. Slate is quarried. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Truro; net value, £130 with residence. The church was built in 1743, and restored and enlarged in 1891. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels.