Bishops-Nympton, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 3 1/2 miles SE of South-Molton, with a station called Bishops-Nympton and Molland on the G.W.R., 188 miles from London, and has a post office under South Molton, which is the money order and telegraph office, and fairs on the third Monday of April, and on the Wednesday before 25 Oct. The parish includes also the hamlets of Bish-Mill, Ash-Mill, and Newton. Acreage, 9623 ; population, 999. An old house, called the Parsonage, is believed to have been a residence of the Bishop of Exeter. Limestone abounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter ; gross commuted value, £379; net value, about £260. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is a fine ancient edifice, of nave, chancel, and south aisle, with a pinnacled tower about 100 feet high, was restored in 1883, and contains a rich monument so effaced that no one knows to whom it was erected. A beautiful stained window was placed in the south aisle in 1892 by Mr Andrew Keates, of Llangollen, in memory of his father, Mr William Keates. There are Wes-leyan Methodist and Bible Christian chapels.
