GENUKI/Devon: Plymtree

PLYMTREE

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]

"PLYMTREE, a parish in the hundred of Hayridge, county Devon, 4 miles S.E. of Collumpton, its railway station and post town, and 8 S.E. of Honiton. The village, which is small, and chiefly agricultural, is situated on the river Clyst, which rises in this parish. The soil is of a loamy nature. The roads between Cullompton and Exeter, and Cullompton and Honiton, skirt the parish on either side. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £285, in the patronage of Oriel College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is an ancient stone edifice with a tower containing five bells. The interior of the church contains an ancient gilt wooden screen, and an octagonal stone font. On the W. front of the tower is a stone statue of the Virgin and Child under a canopy. The parochial charities produce about £29 per annum. The Independents have a place of worship. Hayne House is the principal residence. The Rev. William Blake is lord of the manor."

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