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Bovey-Tracey in Devon County England History and GeographyBOVEY-TRACEY, a parish in the hundred of TEIGNBRIDGE, county of DEVON, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Chudleigh, containing 1685 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £26. 2. 1., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Thomas ? Becket, contains some interesting monuments. Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists have each a meeting-house. A charity school, in which twenty-four children are instructed gratuitously, is endowed with about £40 per annum, arising from land purchased with the aggregate amount of various benefactions. Bovey-Tracey is under the superintendance of a portreeve and a bailiff, the latter of whom is chosen at the court leet of the lord of the manor, and having filled the office of bailiff, is appointed, at the expiration of the period, to that of portreeve. Here are manufactories for earthen ware on an extensive scale: Indiho, once a priory, and subsequently a private mansion, was, in 1772, enlarged and converted into a manufactory. Coal is obtained in this district, but it is of an inferior quality, and is divided into two species, distinguished as stone coal and wood coal, the latter, thought to be composed of a fibrous vegetable substance, presenting the appearance of charred wood. Antimony is also found to an inconsiderable extent. Bovey-Heathfield is an extensive tract lying below the level of the sea, by which it is supposed to have been formerly covered. A canal extends hence to the river Teign, at Newton-Abbots, a distance of five miles and a half, by means of which coal, sea-sand, and lime are brought hither, and Bovey coal, pipe and potter's clay are conveyed away. The Stover railway also passes in the vicinity. A market and a fair were granted to the lord of the manor, in 1259; and fairs for cattle are still held on Easter-Monday, Holy Thursday, and the first Thursdays in July and November. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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