Chittlehampton, Devon

Description
Chittlehampton, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 3 miles NE of Umberleigh station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 W of South Molton, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Umberleigh railway station. Acreage, 5954; population of the civil parish, 1076 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1186. The parish includes also the hamlets of Bidacott. Blakewell, Brightley, and Eastacott. The manor belongs to the Rolle family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £375 with residence. The church is Perpendicular English and cruciform, and contains a sculptured stone pulpit, and fine monuments to the Giffords and the Rolles. There are small Wesleyan and Plymouth Brethren chapels. An ancient stone cross, on a lofty pedestal, stands about half a mile E of the village, and another, a monolith, at Eastacott.