Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOODLAND

WOODLAND, a chapelry in Ipplepen parish, Devon; 5 miles WSW of Newton-Abbot r. station. Post town, Ashburton, under Newton-Abbot. Acres, 1,606. Real property, £1,795; of which £25 are in quarries. Pop., 169. Houses, 50. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £56. Patrons, the Inhabitants. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ipplepen AP/CP       Woodland Ch/CP       Devon AncC
Place: Woodland

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