Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HORRABRIDGE

HORRABRIDGE, a chapelry in Buckland-Monachorum, Sampford-Spiney, and Walkhampton parishes, Devon; on an affluent of the river Tavy, and on the Tavistock railway, 4 miles SSE of Tavistock. It has a r. station with telegraph, and a head post office. Pop., 1, 238. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £150. Patron, the Bishop of E. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Horrabridge Ch/CP       Walkhampton AP/CP       Devon AncC
Place: Horrabridge

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