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Withycombe-Rawleigh

WITHYCOMBE-RAWLEIGH, a parish, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon; containing, with part of the town of Exmouth, 1192 inhabitants. It is bounded on the west by the river Exe, and comprises 1882 acres, of which 240 are common or waste. The manor was formerly held by the tenure of finding the king, whenever he should hunt in Dartmoor, two good arrows stuck in an oaten cake. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of East Budleigh: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £200, and the vicarial for £210; the glebe comprises 4 acres. A portion of the church was taken down about 1745, and a new edifice erected about half a mile from Exmouth.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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