Aylesbeare, a village and a parish in Devon. The village stands on the eastern declivity of the bold range of hills, between the basins of the Otter and the Exe, 3 1/2 miles S by W of Whimple station on the L. & S.W.R., and 8 E of Exeter, under which it has a post office ; money order and telegraph office, Woodbury. It is a very straggling place, and was anciently the inheritance of the Earls of Devon, and then bore the name of Earlesbear. Acreage, 3423; population, 786. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £220. The church is an ancient edifice of nave, chancel, north aisle, and western tower, and contains a memorial window to Cecilia Yates, and mural tablets to the Markers, the Stokes, and others. A lych-gate was erected in 1872. There is a Congregational chapel.
