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Place name County Entry Source Ashwater Devon Ashwater , par. and vil., S.Devon, 2m.from Lifton ry. sta. and 6 m. SE. of Holsworthy, 8587 ac., pop. 849; P.O. Bartholomew CLAWTON Devon Lifton r. station; and has a post office under Holsworthy, North Devon. The parish comprises 5, 358 acres. Real property Imperial DEVONSHIRE, or Devon Devon Lifton, Ottery-St. Mary, Plympton, Roborough, Stanborough, Tavistock, Teignbridge, and Wonford. It was further cut for parliamentary representation, by the reform Imperial DUNTERTON Devon Lifton r. station. It contains the hamlet of Eastacott; and its post town is Milton-Abbot, under Tavistock. Acres, 1, 161. Real Imperial EXETER Cornwall
DevonLifton, Stowford, Sydenham-Damerell, and Virginstow; the vicarages of Lamerton, Marystow, Milton-Abbot, and Tavistock; and the p. curacies of Brent Imperial HALWELL Devon Lifton r. station. Post town, Holsworthy, North Devon. Acres, 3, 426. Real property, £1, 153. Pop., 257. Houses, 47. The property Imperial HAYTOR Devon Lifton, Stanborough, and Coleridge. It contains Abbots-Kerswell parish and twenty-one other parishes. Acres, 62,913. Pop. in 1851, 35,196; in 1861, 41,997. Houses Imperial HOLLACOMBE Devon Lifton r. station. Post town, Holsworthy, North Devon. Acres, 1, 218. Real property, £603. Pop., 87. Houses, 20. The property Imperial KELLY Devon Lifton r. station, and 6 SE by E of Launceston. Post town, Tavistock. Acres, 1, 721. Real property, £2, 414. Pop., 217. Houses Imperial Lid Devon Lid , river, Devon, flows to the Tamar near Lifton. Bartholomew LID, or LYD (THE) Devon river of the W of Devon; rising at Branscombe-Loaf in Dartmoor, and running about 13½ miles to the Tamar at Lifton. Imperial Lifton Devon Lifton , hundred, Devon, 133,300 ac., pop. 13,942; contains 21 pars, and part of another. Bartholomew Lifton Devon Lifton .-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., Devon, in valley of river Lid, near its confluence with the Tamar, 4 miles Bartholomew LIFTON Devon LIFTON , a village, a parish, a district-district, and a hundred, in Devon. The village stands in the valley of the river Imperial LUFFINCOTT Cornwall Lifton r. station. Post town, Launceston. Acres, 971. Real property, £667. Pop., 71. Houses, 13. The property is divided Imperial PANCRASWEEK Devon Lifton r. station; and is sometimes called Week-Pancrassa, or Week, St. Pancras. The parish contains also the hamlets of Dexbeer Imperial PYWORTHY Devon Lifton r. station. The parish contains also the hamlets of Derriton and Killatree; and its post town is Holsworthy, North Imperial TAVISTOCK Devon Lifton, and Buckland-Monachorum sub-districts; and comprises 158,567 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £12,372. Pop. in 1851, 32,386; in 1861, 35,265. Houses Imperial VIRGINSTOW Devon Lifton r. station, and 6½ NNE of Launceston. Post town, Launceston. Acres, 1,274. Real property, £1,004. Pop., 141. Houses Imperial
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