A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



The same author in the same Journal, 1883, pp. 16-20, 37-42, 101-4, 132--S, and 1886, pp. 

 8-14, 78-82, 104-10, 144-8, 176-81, 'On the flora of the upper Tamar and neigh- 

 bouring districts.' 



Thomas Richard Archer Briggs in the Journal of Botany, 1884, p. 170, 'On some Devonian sta- 

 tions of plants noted in the last century.' 



Miss Helen Saunders in the Transactions of the bevonshire Association (1898), xxx. 200, Oke- 

 hampton.' . , 



The same author in the same Transactions (1901), xxxiii. 470-2. 'Great Torrington. 



3. South Molton 



This district consists of the petty sessional divisions of South Molton and Crediton and 

 the municipal borough of South Molton ; it forms the larger and eastern portion of the northern 

 or South Molton parliamentary division, and contains about 233,415 acres of land and v^ater ; 

 it is wholly inland, and is bounded on the west by the Torrington botanical district, on the 

 north partly by the Barnstaple botanical district and partly by the county of Somerset, on the 

 east by the Exeter botanical district, and on the south by the Torquay botanical district. It 

 comprises 61 civil parishes, 38 of which are drained wholly to the north coast, 11 wholly to 

 the south coast, and 12 partly to both coasts. It includes all the 29 parishes of the South 

 Molton poor-law union, 28 out of the 30 parishes of the Crediton union, 2 (Ashreigney and 

 Winkleigh) of the Torrington union, and 2 (Bondleigh and North Tawton) of the Oke- 

 hampton union ; 59 of the parishes are rural and 2 are urban. 



The highest point is on Five Barrows Hill in North Molton parish, 1,618 feet above sea- 

 level ; the lowest part is perhaps near Hawkridge bridge in Chittlehampton parish, about 33 

 feet altitude ; another low part is by the river Greedy about 3 miles from Exeter. The 

 principal rivers are the Taw with its tributaries the Bray, the Mole, the little Dart and the 

 (South) Yeo, and the Greedy. 



The following is a complete list in alphabetical order of the civil parishes in the 

 district : — 



Ashreigney 



Bishopsnympton 



Bondleigh 



Bow 



Brushford 



Burrington 



Charles 



Chawleigh 



Cheldon 



Cheriton Fitzpaine 



Chittlehamholt 



Chittlehampton 



Chulmleigh 



Clannaborough 



Coldridge 



Colebrooke 



Creacombe 



Crediton Hamlets 



Crediton Town (urban) 



Down St. Mary 



East Anstey 



East Buckland 



East Worlington 



Eggesford 



Filleigh 



Georgenympton 



Kennerleigh 



Kingsnympton 



Knowstone 



Lapford 



Mariansleigh 



Meshaw 



MoUand 



M orchard Bishop 



Newton St. Cyres 



North Molton 



North Tawton 



Nymet Rowland 



Poughill 



Puddington 



Queensnympton 



Rackenford 



Romansleigh 



Roseash 



Sandford 



Satterleigh and Warkleigh 



Shobrooke 



South Molton (urban) 



Stockleigh English 



Stockleigh PomSroy 



Thelbridge 



Twitchen 



Upton Hellions 



Washford Pyne 



Wembworthy 



West Anstey 



West Buckland 



Winkleigh 



Witheridge 



Woolfardlsworthy near Crediton 



Zeal Monachorum 



The greater part of the district belongs to the Carboniferous system ; but, as in the 

 Barnstaple district, nearly the whole of that part which lies to the north of the Devon and 

 Somerset branch of the Great Western Railway is Devonian. The Upper Devonian beds run 

 eastwards in continuation of those in the Barnstaple district on the west ; the Pickwell Down 

 sandstones run across the parishes of Charles, North Molton, Twitchen, Molland, West 

 Anstey and East Anstey, the breadth of the area varying from \ to '2.\ miles ; the Cucullaea 

 beds run along the south side of the Pickwell Down sandstones, through the parishes of Charles 

 and North Molton, the breadth of the area being mostly about half a mile ; there are also 

 three other patches of the Cucullasa beds which are surrounded by or adjoin the Pilton beds : 

 one about 4-^ miles long by about \ mile broad, extending from a point about a mile north of 

 Castle Hill in Filleigh nearly to Limeslake in Bishopsnympton ; another about 7^ miles long 

 by two-thirds of a mile broad at the widest part, tapering towards each end, and extending 



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