Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SPREYTON

SPREYTON, a parish in Okehampton district, Devon; 2½ miles SSE of North Tawton r. station, and 7 ENE of Okehampton. Post town, Okehampton, North Devon. Acres, 3,606. Real property, £3,805. Pop., 358. Houses, 72. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £135.* Patron, the Rev. W. B. Doveton. The church is old but good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Spreyton CP/AP       Okehampton RegD/PLU       Devon AncC
Place: Spreyton

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