Brendon, Devon

Description
Brendon, a parish in Devonshire, at the northern extremity of the county, adjacent to the coast and to Exmoor Forest, 1 1/2 mile ESE of Lynton, and 17 miles NE of Barnstaple station on tha G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Barnstaple; money order and telegraph office, Lynton. Acreage, 6780; population, 294. The manor belonged in the time of Edward the Confessor to Ailward Tochestone, was given by William the Conqueror to Ralph de Pomerois, and passed to the Beaples and the Chichesters. Much of the surface is sheep-walk and deer preserve. The Vale of Brendon is narrow, deep, and picturesque. Major Wade, a leader in the insurrection under the Duke of Monmouth, was made prisoner at Parley Farm. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £146 with residence. The church is a structure partly of 1733, mainly of 1828.