Sampford Courtenay, Devon

Description
Sampford Courtney, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands in a fine spot, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 194 miles from London. It has a post office; money order office, North Tawton; telegraph office, at the railway station. The parish contains also the village of Sticklepath and the hamlets of Corscombe and Willy. Acreage, 7884; population, 866. The manor belongs to King's College, Cambridge. A Cistercian monastery was founded at Brightley in 1136 by Richard Fitz-Baldwin, and was removed to Ford. An insurrection occurred in 1549 in consequence of an alteration in the church service, became so formidable as to make siege of Exeter, and was suppressed by Lord Russell at Clist St Mary. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Sticklepath annexed, in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is Perpendicular, and has a lofty tower. At Sticklepath there are a chapel of ease, a Wesleyan chapel, and a temperance hall with reading-room, which was erected in 1884.