Description
Bickleigh, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Plym, near Robough Down, 6 miles NNE of Plymouth. It has a station on the G.W. R., 242 miles from London, and a post office; money order office, Plymouth; telegraph office, Bickleigh railway station. Acreage, 2370 ; population, 302. Very beautiful and romantic scenery lies along the Cat Water. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter ; net value, £216 with residence. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1838, and it contains the tomb of Sir Nicholas Slanning, whose death forms the catastrophe of Mrs Bray's novel of " Fitz of Fitzford." There are some almshouses erected in 1873.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
