Description
Sydenham Damerel or South Sydenham, a parish, with a village, in Devonshire, on the river Tamar, 4 1/2 miles WNW of Tavistock station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Tavistock; money order and telegraph office, Tavistock. Acreage, 1396; population, 351. The manor belonged to the Damerells, and passed to the Carpenters. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £260 with residence. The church is ancient. There is a Bible Christian chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
