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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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SHEBBEAR, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Devon. The village stands near the river Torridge, 12½ miles S by W of Bideford r. station; and has a post-office under Highampton, North Devon. The parish comprises 5, 827 acres. Real property, £4, 363. Pop., 1, 109. Houses, 219. The property is much sub-divided. The manor was anciently called Shepesbear; belonged early to the Barons of Okehampton; passed to the Nevilles, the Rolles, and Lord Clinton; and belongs now to P. A. Kingdon, Esq. The living is a vicarage-united with Sheepwash, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £334.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church ischiefly later English. There are three dissenting chapels, a national school, and charities £104.—The sub-district contains 5 parishes, and is in Torrington district. Acres, 17, 666. Pop., 3,063. Houses, 600. The hundred contains 26 parishes. Acres, 73, 250. Pop. in 1851, 16,064; in 1861, 15, 726. Houses, 3, 194.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Shebbear CP/AP Shebbear Hundred Shebbear SubD Devon AncC |
| Place names: | SHEBBEAR | SHEPESBEAR |
| Place: | Shebbear |
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