Washfield is a parish and village on the river Exe, commanding a pleasant prospect of the country and is 2½ miles north-west from Tiverton station on the Exe Valley branch of the Great Western Railway, in the Tiverton Division of the county, West Budleigh Hundred, petty sessional division of Tiverton rural district, county court district and rural deanery of Tiverton and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter.
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of a chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells dating from 1787 to 1901; both the tower and the bells were restored in 1900-1901 at a cost of £500 by the late John Coles Esq. JP: there is a very ancient Norman font and a richly-carved Jacobean screen, dated 1624 and made by Bernard Seridge; on the wall of the north aisle is a brass with kneeling effigies of Henry Worth Esq. ob.3 August 1606, his wife and daughter with a shield of arms, and at the foot a Latin inscription: there is also an inscribed brass with a long rhyming epitaph and two shields of arms. The church was restored in 1874 at a cost of about £1000 and in February 1891, a flagstaff and weathercock were placed on the tower by the Rev. C. Govett (Rector 1890 - 99) and the churchwarden, Mr. Robert Morgan: there are 150 sittings; the lych gate was erected by the late Sir Edwin H. Dunning. The register dates from the year 1556. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £370 including 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. John Maurice Turner BD of London University.
The Memorial Hall was erected in 1924 to commemorate the late Madame de las Casas. There are charities of over £30 yearly value. Worth House, pleasantly situated, is the property and residence of Roger Pilkington Young Esq. The Worth estate which had been the property and residence of the elder branch of the Worth family since the first half of the 12th century, was sold in the years 1877 and 1888. Albert de la Cassas Esq. who is Lord of the manor, and Roger Pilkington Young Esq. are the chief landowners.
The soil is light; subsoil, partly clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and grass. the are is 3294 acres of land and 16 of water; the population in 1931 was 315.
POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE: Letters through Tiverton which is the nearest money office.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Bowden, William, Newpark
Britton, Miss, Beecroft
de Las Casas, Albert, Beeches
Dixon, Captain Joseph Percy, Little Hatswell
Jones, Montague Francis, Brambles
Turner, Rev. John Maurice, BD (rector), The Rectory
Worrall, Captain Robert Douglas MC, Beauchamp
Young, Roger Pilkington, Worth House
COMMERCIAL
Arnold, Thomas, farmer, Emmerford
Balment, Charles, tobacconist
Balment, Frederick Charles, shopkeeper & post office
Brice, George, farmer, Mill Farm
Chave, Albert, farmer, Beauchamp Farm
Clarke, Robert James, farmer, Marsh Farm
Cole, Cecil Courtney, farmer, Courtney
Curtis, Henry, farmer, Velaines
Edwards, Alfred James, farmer, Ennerleigh
Elston, Frank, farmer, Hatherland Mill
Gammon, John Henry, farmer, Hatswell
Gill, Frederick, farmer, Church Pitt
Heal, Albert, smallholder, Spilliford
Henson, John, farmer, Lower Pitt
Hocking, Edgar John, farmer, Little Haydon
King, Henry Shilson, farmer, Easterland
Langworthy, Charles, farmer, Webland
Lewis, William James, farmer, Kensington House
Manley, Joseph William, farmer, Cotleigh
Meager, George Henry, dairyman, Swines Bridge
Mogford, Frederick, farmer, Higher Pitt
Mogford, John, farmer, Pilemore
Morrish, Alex John, farmer, Ramsterland
Norman, Ronald C, farmer, Moorhayes
Palfrey, Tom, smallholder, Cowlings
Raymont, Bert, farmer, Great Harpbridge
Sellick, John Greed, farmer, Winbow
Skinner, William, farmer, Middle Hill
Troake, Walter George, farmer, Hatherland
Tucker, William, farmer, Stanterton
Venn, George, farmer, Selwells
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