Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DALWOOD

DALWOOD, a chapelry in Stockland parish, Devon; on the river Cory, and on the Yeovil and Exeter railway, near Colyton r. station, and 6 miles E of Honiton. It has a post office under Honiton, and a fair on the Wednesday after 23 Aug. Acres, 1, 709. Real property, £2, 622. Pop., 492. Houses, 109. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stockland, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is ancient.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Devon AncC
Place: Dalwood

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