Description
Payhembury or Peyhembury, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village is situated 2 miles N from Sidmouth Junction on the L. & S.W.R., and 6 W by N of Honiton. It has a post office under Ottery St Mary; money order and telegraph office, Ottery St Mary. The parish comprises 2737 acres; population, 461. The manor was given by the Courteney family to the Ford Abbey, and now belongs to the Kennaways. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £200 with residence. The church has an embattled tower, a screen of 1460 date, and six fine bells. There is an entrenched encampment in the parish (Hembury Fort), supposed to be the Moridunum of the Romans.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
