Description
Denbury, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Devonshire. The village stands 3 miles SW of Newton-Abbot station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Newton-Abbot; money order and telegraph office, Ipplepen. It was once a borough and a market-town. The manor and Denbury House, a Tudor mansion, belong to the Scratton family. Denbury Down is crowned by an ancient elliptical camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £148. The church is very ancient, with low square tower, was renovated in 1866, and contains several tablets to the Taylors. There is a Baptist chapel. A coffee and reading-room was established in 1879. Population of parish, 331.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
