Description
Sowton, a parish in Devonshire, 1 1/2 mile SW of Broad Clist station on the L. & S.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles E of Exeter. It includes the tithing of Clist Satchfield, and its post town is Exeter. Acreage, 1699; population of the civil parish, 450; of the ecclesiastical, 394. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church was rebuilt in 1845.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
