Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TEMPLETON

TEMPLETON, a parish in Tiverton district. Devon; 5¼ miles W by N of Tiverton r. station. Post town, Tiverton. Acres, 1,895. Real property, £1,294. Pop., 217. Houses, 46. The manor belonged to the Knights Templars, passed to the Loosemores, and belongs now to J. Chichester, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £162.* Patron, Sir J. De la Pole, Bart. The church is ancient.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Templeton AP/CP       Devon AncC
Place: Templeton

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