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Rh 702 DEVY.NN.H'K. .mouth, Chagford, Chudlcigh, Chumlcigh, Collnmi.: igh, llfra- .ipstead, (>lt-ry, Teign- raoutli, Topsham, Beeralston, South Brent, Cuimstock, and UH'culme. Three other parishes are also partly in this county, mid there are 6 extra-parochial places. Of tho above towns, the first 18, with .St. Thomas, are Poor-law Unions; tho first 15, with Plymouth, new County Courts. Twenty-two members are ret to parliami-nt ; two for each divir.ii.ii of the county; two for each of tho following boroughs: Exeter, Barn- staple, Devonport, Iloniton, Plymouth, TavUtock, Tot- nes, and Tiverton ; and one each for Ashburton and Dartmouth. The elections for the county are held, for the N. division at South Molton, the other polling-places being Collumpton, Barnstaple, Torrington, Holaworthy, and Crediton ; 1'or the 8. division at Exeler, the polling stations bcin:,' Plymouth, H< .niton, Newton Abbot, Kingsbridge, TavUtock, and Oakhampton. The local government is in the hands of a lord-lieutonaut, a lieutenant, a custos, a high-sheriff, about 90 deputy lieutenants, and 390 magistrates. The county is in the AVestern Circuit, and the assizes are held at K which is the seat of a bishopric, in the province of Canterbury. Devonshire contains 3 archdeaconries Exeter, Barnstaple, and Totnes, which are again divided into 23 rural deaneries containing about 470 benefices. Tho number of inhabited houses in 1861 was 101,253, with a population of 584,373. In 1851 the number of persons wax 567,09fi, showing an increase of 3 per cent, in the ten years. From 1821 to 1831 the rate of increase was 15 per cent., and it has been gradually lessening to the present time. The people are i -hit-fly employed in agriculture, and, on the coast, as sailors and fishermen. The chief manufactures are woollen goods, lace (principally at Honiton), gloves, tanning, and carpets (at Ajtminster). In the last century < T was the largest wool mart in England, next to Leeds, but the trade has been decreasing during the present century. A large number of hands ai. ployed in copper, lead, and tin mines, and in and ship building in private yards as well as in the government dockyards at Devonport. The antiquities of the county arc numerous. Dartmoor is covered with " hut circles," and other Druidical remains are found in various places. At Grimpspound, near Manaton, there is a stone enclosure of about 4 acres, probably tin- remains of a British town ; other circles are fun GUdleigh, near Scorhill Tor, and other places on Dart- moor ; and cromlechs at Drew's Teignton, Withecombc, and Haddock's Down, near Combe Martin. Several British roads can be traced: they run from Seaton to Holland, from Exeter to Holland and Oakhampton, from Crediton to Haldon, and from the moutli - Exo to Taunton. Cairns and tumuli occur on Halilon and other downs in North Devon. In addition to the Roman stations already mentioned, there are remains of a camp ut Hembury Fort. Ruined castles are numerous. The Courtenays, earls of Devon, possessed those at Exeter, Plympton, Oakhampton, and Tiverton. P.. these, there are remains of Berry Pomeroy, Gidlcy, Compton, Hcmiock, Dartmouth, Kingswear', Li.. and other castles : the last mentioned, Lidford, was the stannary prison. The only abbeys of wlii.-li any ruins are visible are the Cistercian abbeys at Ford on ti. and nt I'.ueldand, the residence of Sir F. Drake; the 1 it-tine house at Tavistock; the Austin priory at Harlland; St. Nicholas's at Exeter; and the Premon- stratensian house called Tor Abbey. Two ancient mans .n-thy of notice Darlington, n. u- T..I- nes, ot tin 1 nil c-entiiry, and Bntdlry, near Newton Bushel, i.i tin- l.Jth. Kxeter Cathedi'al is built in a I ; tli" earliest portion belongs to the year A.D. 868. Bishop's Leighton church is an example of the early Saxon IVigninoutho! the Norman. Thee nubility and gentry are 1 r House, Duke ui B, Karl Jlorley ;
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- .f Carnarvon ; Powderham, Earl of Devon ; Bagtor, Lord Ashbuiton ; Exeter (Bishop of) ]]. ^iace- -I, l.oj-d i;. ; ti more, Lord Poltimur.-; lluish House, Leu- Canonleigh, Lord Exmouth ; Ugbrooke, Lord Clill Blachford, Roge. liuckland Abbey, Drake, Bart. ; Courtland, Roberts, Bart. ; Creedy House, ] > Bart.; Escott, Kennaway, Bart. ; II :i-i'. n House, l^H Hart.; Killerton, Acland, Bail ; Man Bart. ; Manaton, Elfoi Notherton House, Prideaux, Bait. ; 1'om . K iwden Shut.- II Bart. ; Spring Lodge, Farrington, Bart. ; Dawst^H Wray, Bart. ; Tor Royal House, Tyrwhitt, B^H Youlston, Chichester, Bart; Buckland Fill - ; Coham, of Cohani; Darlington, Champernowne Denbury, Taylor; Barno, Trelawney ; l)i.' Bradfield, Walrond ; Fullapit, Fortescue; l-'umng^^H Cholwich; 1 i. . t ll.n>e, Itulteel ; Ford, "i- combe, King; Fulford, of l-'ulloid; Kelly, Hayne, Harris; Kitl.y, II. ;.i.l; Langdon, Calm^^H L Ariin.l. 1 ; Lindridge, Templar; Lupt New Place, Tanner; Nothway, Luttroll; ' Strode; Oxton, L, White; Rhodes; Stockloigh, Itellew ; Tor Abl. Whitway, Parker ; Wolford, Simcoe ; Tavistock, mouth, Heanton, &c. The Cavendish family Uike^H tille of duke, and the Courtenays that of can. u-om this county. The railways passing through are the Bristol and Exeter, entering the county Wellington, and proceeding to Exeter, with a br to Tiverton. It continues from along coast, to Teignmouth, whore it leaves the sea, pa through Newton Abbot, Totnes, and Devonport, i ing the Tamar to Saltash. There U a branch Newton Abbot to Torquay, and another from Plyn to Tavistock. A line also m by wayof Barnstaple; amlanoth. i and Yeovil, enters tho county at AA i . and sending ull'a branch a few miles V town, along the Western canal, from Taunton, passes by Ti at Exeter joins the Ev-t. r can.il. The iiude a. worthy joins the river Valdon with canal. Its length is about 1 ") J miles, canals at Tavistock, along the 'Porridge, and ton Bushel for about 4 miles toward Th. re w. re four mail roads from London to I Devonport, Exeter, and Bath road ; : road, Mill-ring between Chard and II.. Falm. inn- between li.- Axminstcr; and tho Falniouth, Devon] mg between Honiton and limn e an other roads diverging from Exeter to all parts of the county. '1 i rbours are Plymouth, Torbay, and louth. I'KVOXSIDfci, a modem vil. in the par. of Tilli- louhiv, in tin- BO. of Clackmannan, Scotland. DE'VYNNiM K >n hmid.in theco.oi ; '.aim the pars, of Llanspyddid, Devynnock, ]' -irsd- -ir.idyynlais, and pails of Llyw. DEVYNNOCK, a par. in the hund. of Devj-nnock, in n, 7 miles S.W. of ]'' It i river Vnk, and contains Ystradvelltejr, ulid, Glyntawe, I.I.-iniltid, Maescar, Glynn, and at forest covers an area of 20,iioO ncres. road, Via Julia, jxissed through t) The 1 vie.* in the dioc. of St. David's. with : ur. of V.slia.lvellie, r Inn, in the patron. . i Ihe bishop. There is a district church at ' i.iwc, val. i'^i); at Llanulid, val. 103; and st .It ill or St. Illtid, val. 8U, all ot which arc perpet curs, in the patron, of the vicar. The church is dedi- i to St. Dyvnug, and contains some moniunenU. 6 are chapels for Independenls and ' i.idisls. The petty sessions are held i hundred. The charities amount to 97 per annu.- of whieh -ree school tind almshou**.