Description
Zeal Monachorum, a parish, with three hamlets, in Devonshire, 2 1/2 miles from Bow station on the L. & S.W.R., and 7 NW by W of Crediton. Post town, Bow. Acreage, 3313; population, 405. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor was given by King Canute to Buckfast monastery, took thence the name of Monkenfield, Monkenzeal, or Zeal Monachorum, and belongs now to the Ley family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £330 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early Perpendicular style, with an embattled western tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
