Entry from White's Devonshire 1878:
BEAFORD, a parish and pleasant village on the eastern acclivity of the Torridge valley, 6 miles S.E. of Great Torrington, is in Torrington union, county court district and deanery, Great Torrington petty sessional division, Torrington polling district of North Devon, Shebbear hundred, and Bamstaple archdeaconry. It had 619 inhabitants (282 males, 387 females) in 1871, living in 125 houses on 3203 acres of land. The parish includes Abbots .Hill, Woolleigh, and Upcott. The Rev. C. W. Furse is lord of the manor, but Woolly or .Woolleigh Barton is a separate manor, 2 miles from the village, belonging to Sir T. D. Acland, and on this estate are remains of an ancient chapel. Upcott Farm, the property and residence of Thomas W. Snell, Esq., had anciently a chapel attached, but no traces of it are now to be seen. The CHURCH (St. George) is an ancient structure in various styles of architecture, and is about to be restored. The south aisle has a fine old carved roof. The tower, with spire, is on the north side, and contains three bells. The font is Norman. The living, a rectory, valued in K.B. at £11 15s. 71/2d, and now at £300, is in the patronage of the Rev. C. Wood, B.A., and incumbency of the Rev. H. J. Marshall, who has a residence, built in 1853. The tithes are commuted at £244 a year, and there are 75 acres of glebe. The BAPTISTS and BIBLE CHRISTIANS have small chapels here. A CHURCH SCHOOL, with teacher's residence, was erected in 1870, on a site given by Miss Arnold, and has an average attendance of 80 pupils. The parish clerk has the free use of a house and six acres of land.
POST and MONEY ORDER OFFICE and SAVINGS BANK at Mr. John Westcott's. Letters are received at 45 a.m., and despatched at 6.45 p.m.
