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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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SAMPFORD-PEVERELL, a village and a parish in Tiverton district, Devon. The village stands 2¼ miles N by W of Tiverton-Junction r. station, and 5 E N E of Tiverton; was anciently a borough; carried on, for sometime, a considerable woollen trade; and now has a post-office‡ under Tiverton, and a cattle fair on the Monday before the last Wednesday of April. The parish comprises 2,000 acres. Real property, £4, 169. Pop. in 1851, 855; in 1861, 720. Houses, 173. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged anciently to the Peverells and the Paulets; and the manor house was occupied by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £270.* Patrons, the Trustees of Mrs. Ireland. The church is mainly early English. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Sampford Peverell AP/CP Devon AncC |
| Place: | Sampford Peverell |
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