Bratton Clovelly (or Clevelly) is a village and extensive parish, 3-1/2 miles south from Ashbury and North Lew station on the North Cornwall branch of the Southern railway, and 8-1/2 west-by-south from Okehampton, in the South Molton division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Lifton, rural district, county court district and rural deanery of Okehampton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. Electricity is available. Water is supplied from a reservoir and from village pumps. 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 a turret, 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 Burnaby 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 the late Mrs. Manning, 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, net yearly value £538, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and held since 1920 by the Rev. Robert Kinninmonth Bennett. There are two United Methodist chapels here; one in the village and one at Boasley. A cattle market is held once a month. Henry de Bracton, 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. Messrs. William and Thomas Brown, Mrs. Vick and Mrs. Colin James are the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly clay and various loams; subsoil, clay and shillit. Wheat, oats and barley are grown, but the land is chiefly in pasture. The area is 7,254 acres; the population in 1931 was 457, and the ecclesiastical, 508.
By Local Government Board 16,406, a detached part of this parish was transferred to Broadwood Widger, in Launceston Union, March 25, 1885, for civil purposes.
Post , M.O & T. Office. Letters from Okehampton
Post & T. Office, Broadbury. Letters from Okehampton. North Lew nearest M.O. Office.
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(For T N’s see general list of private residents at end of book.)
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| Category | Surname | Given Name | Title | Suffix | Occupation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private Residents | Bennett | Robert Kinninmonth | Rev. | rector | Rectory | |
| Dane | Arthur Maurice Yate | Commdr. | The Bees, Broadbury | |||
| Fitch | Wm Fredk. | Little Metherell | ||||
| Heygate | Reginald Basil C. | Rev. Canon | Domons | |||
| Lett | R. King | Metherell Moor House | ||||
| Sansom | Benjamin | Ellacombe | ||||
| Commercial | Abell | Cyril | farmer | Headstone | ||
| Adams | Jas. | farmer | Langworthy Moor, Broadbury | |||
| Adams | Rd. | saddler | ||||
| Blight | Aug. Jas. | farmer, over 150 acres | Ellacott | |||
| Bond | Geo. | farmer, over 150 acres | Brockscombe | |||
| Breyley | Sidney | saddler | West Burrow | |||
| Brown | T. | farmer | Eversfield & Home farms | |||
| Brown | Wm. | landowner & farmer, over 150 acres | Calehouse | |||
| Bulsdon | Rd. | farmer | Grindhill | |||
| Cutland | Albt. Jn. | parish clerk | ||||
| Dawe | Samuel | farmer | North Wrixhill | |||
| Dennis | Geo. | farmer | Higher Fursden | |||
| Down | Wm. | farmer, over 150 acres | Lower Voaden | |||
| Elworthy | Jn. | farmer, over 150 acres | Langworthy, Broadbury | |||
| Evely | Horace J. | grocer | ||||
| Fielding | Leroy | farmer | Bratton Town | |||
| Forsayeth | Rd. | M.R.S.C. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. | physician & surgeon | Mill Park | ||
| Gimblett | Wilfred Hy. | farmer | South Barton | |||
| Gratton | Thos. | farmer | East Reed | |||
| Gratton | Wm. | farmer | Metherell Farm | |||
| Hammond | Jn. | farmer, over 150 acres | Blackabroom | |||
| Hamlyn | Wltr. | farmer | Blagrove | |||
| Hearn | Philip Hy. | landowner & farmer, over 150 acres | Swaddledown | |||
| Herrod | Wm. Geo. | farmer | South Reed | |||
| Hill | Jn. | farmer & blacksmith & county instructor in farriery | Post Office, Broadbury | |||
| Hillman | Alfrd. | farmer | Risdon | |||
| James | Colin | farmer | Bannadon | |||
| Jones | Lawson | farmer | Wrixel | |||
| Jordan | Chas. | farmer, over 150 acres | Redstone | |||
| Lintern | Wm. Geo. | Clovelly Hotel | ||||
| Lovell | Ellen | Mrs. | farmer | Higher Voaden | ||
| Lovell | Rt. | farmer | Mendea | |||
| Luxton | Cecil V. | farmer, over 150 acres | Chelmsworthy | |||
| Luxton | Fred. | landowner & farmer | Hillside | |||
| Medland | Wesley S. | shopkeeper | ||||
| Napper | Jn. | farmer | South Ville | |||
| Paige | Wm. | farmer, over 150 acres | Moorstone | |||
| Roberts | Edwin | farmer | Bucketts | |||
| Skidmore | Fras. Albt. | carpenter | ||||
| Vallance | Bessie | Mrs. | farmer | Lower Northcombe | ||
| Vanstone | Edwin | farmer | Grindhill | |||
| Westlake | Eliz. | Miss | landowner & farmer | Grindhill | ||
| Wills | Victor | farmer | Bratton Mill | |||
| Wivell | Saml. | farmer, over 150 acres | Burrow | |||
| Wonnacott | Walt. | farmer | Fursdon | |||
| Wood | Percvl. Frank | landowner & farmer | Boasley | |||
| Woodman | Wm. | farmers | Littleburrow | |||
| Woodrow | Jn. | farmer | North Breazle | |||
| Woodrow | Alfd. | farmer | Brockscombe | |||
| Wooldridge | Alfd. | farmer | Broadcroft |