Marldon, Devon

Description
Marldon, a parish in Devonshire, near Torbay, 2 1/2 miles W of Torquay station on the G.W.R., and 5 ENE of Totnes-It contains the hamlets of Compton and Westerland. Post town, Paignton. Acreage, 2547; population of the civil parish, 528; of the ecclesiastical, with Paignton, 5961. The-manor belonged in the time of Edward the Confessor to Osolf; was held at Domesday by Stephen, and then bore the-name of Contime; passed in the time of Henry II. to Maurice de Pole, ancestor of Sir William Pole the antiquary; took from the Poles the name of Compton Pole; passed from them to the Comptons; belonged in the time of Edward II. to the family of Sir Humphrey Gilbert the navigator; went from them to the family of Bishop; passed about 1830 to the-Gan'atts; and belongs now to the Bewes family. The manorial mansion is called Compton Castle; has a very ancient gateway and a N embattled tower; and includes a chapel with beautiful windows. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Paignton, in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £450 with residence. The church is old but good, has been restored, and contains monuments of the De Poles, the Bishops,. and others. There are Congregational and Baptist chapels.