Description
Buckland-in-the-Moor, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Dart, adjacent to Dartmoor, and 3 miles from Ashburton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Ashburton, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1493; population, 71. The manor, with Buckland House, belongs to the family of Bastard. Buckland Beacon is a rocky eminence commanding a very brilliant panoramic view. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Ashburton, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is small.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
