Description
Sourton, a parish, with a few small hamlets, in Devonshire, 5 miles SW of Okehampton station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town and money order office, Bridestow; telegraph office, Bridestow railway station. Acreage, 5046; population, 448. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The ecclesiastical parish was separated from Bridestow in 1889, and made into a separate parish. The living is a perpetual curacy; net value, £230. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is partly of 13th century date, and was partly rebuilt in 1847. There are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
