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MARLDON, a parish in Totnes district, Devon; near Torbay, 2½ miles W of Torquay r. station, and 5 ENE of Totnes. It contains the hamlets of Compton and W esterland; and its Post town is Totnes. Acres, 2,327. Real property, £4,326. Pop., 554. Houses, 117. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward the Confessor, to Osolf; was held, at Domesday, by Stephen, and then bore the name of Contime; passed, in the time of Henry II., to Maurice de Pole, ancestor of Sir William Pole, the antiquary; took from the Poles the name of Compton-Pole; passed from them to the Comptons; belonged, in the time of Edward II., to the family of Sir Hnmphrey Gilbert, the navig.ator; went from them to the family of Bishop; passed, about 1830, to the Garratts; and belong.s now to the Rev. J. Bewes. The manorial mansion is called Compton Castle; has a very ancient gateway, and a N embattled tower; and includes a chapel, with beautiful windows. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Paignton, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is old but good; the chancel was recently restored; and the church contains monuments of the De Poles, the Bishops, and others. There is a recently erected national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Marldon Ch/CP Totnes RegD/PLU Devon AncC |
| Place: | Marldon |
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