Buckland Monachorum, Devon

Description
Buckland-Monachorum, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands near the river Tavey, 1 1/2 mile from Henabridge station on the G.W.R., and 4 miles S by E of Tavistock. It has a post office under Horrabridge (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. It was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 6715 acres; population of the civil parish, 1414; of the ecclesiastical, 1159. The manor belongs to the Lopes family. Buckland Abbey, a Tudor edifice was the favourite residence of Sir Francis Drake, the famous navigator, and contains some interesting souvenirs of him. The house is still occupied by one of his descendants. A Cistercian abbey was founded in the parish in 1278 by Amicia, countess-dowager of Devonshire, castellated by one of its abbots, given at the dissolution to Richard Greyfield, and garrisoned during the Civil War. Small but interesting remains of the buildings still exist. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £277 with residence. The church is Perpendicular English and cruciform, with a tower, and contains carved old seats, a Decorated ceiling, and a monument by Bacon to Lord Heathfield, the defender of Gibraltar. A Baptist chapel is in the village, and a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan chapel are at Horrabridge.