East Down, Devon

Description
Down, East, a parish in Devonshire, round the head-streams of an affluent of the river Taw, 6 1/4 miles NNE of Barnstaple town and station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. Post town, Barnstaple; money order office, Combmartin; telegraph office, Bratton Fleming. Acreage, 3677; population, 346. The manor belonged in the time of Edward III. to the family of Downe, and passed to the Pines and the Coffins. Churchill estate belongs to the Chichesters. The southern part around the church is a pleasant valley,. and the northern part rises into bold hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £330. The church is Perpendicular English, consists of nave and aisle with low-square tower, and is good. It was almost entirely rebuilt in 1886.