Description
Woolfardisworthy or Woolsery, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 9 miles WSW of Bideford station on the L. & S.W.R., and has a post office, of the name of Woolsery, under Bideford, a hotel, and two annual fairs. The parish includes four hamlets, and comprises 6119 acres; population of the civil parish, 660; of the ecclesiastical, 505. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £90 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Norman style, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
