Description
Ogwell, West, a parish in Devonshire, 3 miles SW of Newton Abbot station on the G.W.R. Post town, Newton Abbot. Acreage, 706; population, 39. West Ogwell House is the chief residence. The parish is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter, and was annexed in 1868 to East Ogwell. The church is a neat edifice of nave and chancel, with a tower, and has a carved oak pulpit.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
