Awliscombe, a village and a parish in Devon. The village stands near the river Otter, 2 miles WNW of Honiton station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Honiton, which is the meney order and telegraph office, and an annual fair was formerly held here. The parish comprises 2626 acres; population of the civil parish, 497; of the ecclesiastical, 498. The manor was given in 1491, by Thomas Calwodeley, to the corporation of Exeter, but comprised then only 203 1/2 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £180. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The church, an interesting specimen of the Perpendicular style, consists of nave, chancel, S transept, and N aisles, has a beautiful carved stone screen, and a tower, and was restored in 1887. Thomas Charde, the last abbot of Ford, was a native.
