Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BITTADON

BITTADON, a parish in Barnstaple district, Devon; 3½ miles SSE of Ilfracombe, and 5½ N by W of Barnstaple r. station. Post Town, Ilfracombe. Acres, 1,018. Real property, £597. Pop., 65. Houses, 11. The property is divided among four. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £83. Patron, W. A. Yeo, Esq. The church is small but good; and contains some fine monuments of the Chichester and Acland families.


(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: Bittadon AP/CP       Barnstaple RegD/PLU       Devon AncC
Place: Bittadon

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