Woodleigh (St. Mary)
WOODLEIGH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Kingsbridge, hundred of Staneorough, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (N.) from Kingsbridge; containing 269 inhabitants. It comprises 1975 acres, of which 240 are common or waste. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £22. 8. 4.; net income, £392; patrons, Exeter College, Oxford. The church contains an altar-tomb representing the Resurrection of Our Saviour.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.