Bratton Clovelly (or Clevelly) is a village and extensive parish, 3-1/2 miles south from Ashbury and North Lew station on the Halwill to Oakhampton branch of the London and South Western railway, and 8-1/2 west-by-south from Okehampton, in the Western division of the county, Lifton hundred and petty sessional division, Okehampton union and county court district, rural deanery of Okehampton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of stone, in the Early English and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a fine embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, all cast in 1767; and a clock presented by Mrs. Manning in 1895; the nave is Early Decorated, dating from about 1375; the chancel and base of the tower are Early English; the font is Norman; two windows in the vestry contain ancient stained glass, including the arms of the Barnby family; the other windows have modern stained glass as memorials to Thomas Ellis Manning and his relatives; the window in the tower is a memorial to Oliver Veale Pengelly, formerly of this parish; in 1891-2, the church was thoroughly restored and reseated in oak, and a carved oak pulpit, erected at a cost of about £2,000 by Mrs. Manning, of Eversfield, in this parish, who also presented a richly-carved alabaster reredos, and relaid the chancel floor with highly-polished Devonshire and Irish marble as a memorial to her sister, Mrs. Mary Younge, who died in 1891; the screen was removed in 1820; the nave will seat 180 persons. The register dates from the year 1555. The living is a rectory, yearly income £264, including 140 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and held since 1898 by Rev. Gregory Climenson Bateman, Assoc. K.C.L. There are two Bible Christian chapels here — one in the village and one at Rexon Cross — and a Wesleyan chapel at Boasley. Fairs are held here on the second Tuesday in May and the first after October 19th. Henry de Bracton or Bretton, a celebrated lawyer and judge (1185-1267), and author of “De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae,” the best of judicial classics, is supposed to have born in this parish. Calehouse belongs to Wm. Brown esq. of Hughslade, Okehampton; Boasley, to Tredenham Hugh Spry esq. of Broadwood Widger; Metherell belongs to Mr. Richmond Gorle; Ellacott, which formerly belonged to the Earl of Morley, is now the property of Wm. James Harris esq. of Halwill manor; Higher Voaden belongs to the trustees of the late T. Brown; Banbury, originally Burnaby, belonged to the ancestors of Col. Fred Burnaby R.H.G. killed in the Soudan at the battle of Abu Klea, 17 Jan. 1885, now to T. Hugh Spry esq. Mrs. Manning, of Eversfield, is lady of the manor. Mrs. Manning, Percy Rbt. Kenyon Slaney esq., the trustees of the late Thomas Brown, William James Harris esq., Tredenham Hugh Spry esq. of Broadwood Widger, and Mrs. Symmons are the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oat and barley. The area is 7,254 acres; rateable value, £3,169; the population in 1901 was 436.
By Local Government Board 16,406, a detached part of this parish was transferred to Broadwood, in Launceston Union, March 25, 1885, for civil purposes.
Post , M.O & T.O, T.M.O., Express Delivery, Parcel Post, S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. — Mrs. Agnes Palmer, sub-postmistress. Letters received from Lew Down R.S.O. North Devon, thence to Bratton Clovelly by foot post, at 7:40 a.m.; dispatched 5 p.m.
A School Board of 5 members was formed July 31, 1874; Matthew Davey, The Village, clerk to the board.
Board School (mixed), erected in 1877, for 140 children; average attendance, 95; William More, master; Mrs. Laycock, sewing mistress.
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| Category | Surname | Given Name | Title | Suffix | Occupation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bateman | Gregory Climenson | Rev. | Assoc. K.C.L. | Rectory | ||
| Heath | B. | The Old Rectory | ||||
| Kenyon Slaney | Percy Robt. | Langworthy | ||||
| Manning | Mrs. | Eversfield | ||||
| Commercial | Abell | Thomas | farmer | Headstone | ||
| Andrew | John | farmer | Reed | |||
| Bailey | John | farmer | East Banbury | |||
| Brealy | Richard | farmer | Risdon | |||
| Brown | Thomas | landowner & farmer | Lower Voaden | |||
| Davey | Matthew | boot & shoemaker | ||||
| Dawe | William | farmer | Court Barton | |||
| Dennis | Thomas | farmer | Broadcroft | |||
| Dingle | David | farmer | Northcombe | |||
| Gilbert | Frank | farmer | Coombe Park | |||
| Gorle | Bros. | farmers | Metherell Tower | |||
| Hearn | Philip Henry | landowner & farmer | Swaddledown | |||
| Heggadon | Samuel | farmer | Redstone | |||
| Higgins | Oliver | tailor | ||||
| Horrell | George | news agent | ||||
| Hortop | Henry | & Son | wheelwrights & carpenters | |||
| Hortop | John | farmer | Brockscombe | |||
| Hortop | Rosetta | Miss | farmer | Bratton Town | ||
| Jackman | Roger | farmer | Burrow | |||
| Lang | Thomas | farmer | Brockscombe | |||
| Lovell | Amelia | Mrs. | farmer | South Barton | ||
| Lovell | William | farmer | Menda | |||
| Luxton | Richard | farmer | Breazle | |||
| Maynard | James | farmer | Blagrove | |||
| Paige | John | farmer | Moorstone | |||
| Palmer | James | farm bailiff to T. H. Spry esq. | Voasley (Boasley) | |||
| Pengelly | John | shoemaker | ||||
| Pethick | Thomas | farmer | Fursdon | |||
| Phear | James | saddler & harness maker | ||||
| Pine | Samuel | blacksmith | ||||
| Roberts | John | farmer | Brockscombe | |||
| Roberts | Roger | blacksmith | ||||
| Sampson | Samuel | miller | (water) | |||
| Silliphant | Sl. | farmer | West Banbury | |||
| Sleeman | Grace | Mrs. | farmer | Calehouse | ||
| Smale | Henry | shopkeeper | ||||
| Smallacombe | Jabez | poultry dealer | ||||
| Spry | Richard | blacksmith | Grindhill | |||
| Stacey | Shadrack | Clovelly Hotel & farmer | ||||
| Westlake | Thomas | farmer | Grindhill | |||
| Wivell | William | farmer | Burrow | |||
| Wood | John | farmer | South Breazle |