Lamerton, Devon

Description
Lamerton, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 3 miles NW by N of Tavistock station on the 'G.W.R., is a scattered place, and has a post office under Tavistock; money order and telegraph office, Tavistock. The parish contains also the hamlets of Chaddlehanger, Hill-town, and Ottery. Acreage, 5018; population, 771. The manor belonged to Tavistock Abbey, and now belongs to Earl Fortescue. Collacombe Barton was long the seat of the Tremayne family, has a Tudor character with a large transom window in one of the rooms, and is now a farmhouse. Vinn House, Hnrlditch Court, Great Haye, Willes-trew, Cample Haye, and Belgrove are chief residences. The part of the parish around Brent Tor, and on the border of Dartmoor, contains romantic scenery, and includes the Lydford waterfall. The northern part of the parish now forms, for ecclesiastical purposes, part of the parish of Bren-ton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £240 with residence. The church was entirely burnt down in 1877, but has been rebuilt chiefly in the Perpendicular style. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels.