Description
Kentisbury, a parish in Devonshire, 3 miles SE of Combe Martin, and 9 NE of Bamstaple station on the G.W.R. It contains the hamlets of Patchole, Ford, and West Kentisbury or Kentisburytown. It has a post office under Bamstaple; money order and telegraph office, Combe Martin. Acreage, 3149; population, 344. Earl Fortescue is chief proprietor. The manor belonged to the families of Wolfe, Randall, and Beavis. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £280 with residence. The church is old, and has a tower, but was restored in 1875.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
