Beaford, anciently called Beauford a parish in Devonshire, on the river Torridge, 5 miles SE of Torrington, and 6 WSW of Umberleigh station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Torrington. Acreage, 3295; population, 494. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £224 with residence. The church is an old-fashioned edifice with a low tower. It was restored and icseated in 1879. There are Baptist and Bible Christian chapels.
