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containing six bells. It has been thoroughly restored, at 

 an expense of £2,003, and was re-opened for Divine service 

 in October, 1869." The Rectory is a large and handsome 

 modern residence, built in Elizabethan style, in 184&.Q. 



The Baptists, Bible Christians, and Wesleyans, have 

 places of worship here, and there is a National School for 

 the children of both sexes, with house for the master, 

 which was erected in 1857. 



The Avon (which is here crossed by a bridge, and is 

 navigable thus far, and no further) abounds in salmon and 

 trout, and at the hatch is a salmon weir. Three brooks, 

 which form feeders of the river, can be crossed at low 

 tide at a place called 'The Stakes/ which gives a shorter 

 route to Bigbury." 



At one time salmon were much more plentiful here than 

 they are at present. Of late years they had so materially 

 decreased that a society was formed for their preservation, 

 and no one is now permitted to fish in the river for them 

 without a ticket. 



In Domesday Book, among the sources of revenue of the 

 Manor of Loddiswell, the salmon of the river are mentioned. 

 It is said of this, as of some other places, that the indentures 

 by which apprentices were bound in the valley of the Avon 

 contained the provision that they should not be fed on 

 salmon more than three times a week. 



Loddiswell is a large village, situated on rising ground, 

 at the western side of the Avon vale, and about three 

 miles from Kingsbridge. 



Risdon's account of this place is as follows : — " Loddis- 

 well was held by Heath in the Saxons' time, and Judael de 

 Totnes was owner thereof the twentieth year of William 

 the Conqueror. William de Brays had this Manor given to 



