Description
Throwleigh, a parish, with a village, in Devonshire, 6 1/2 miles SE of Okehampton station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Okehampton; money order and telegraph office, Chagford. Acreage, 2981; population, 281. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old but good, and has been well restored. There are a Bible Christian chapel and a mission church.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
