| WEST OGWELL IN KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF 1923 |
West Ogwell is 3 miles west from Newton Abbot station on the South Devon section of the Great Western Railway, 1 mile south from the Newton and Ashburton road and 2 miles west from the Newton and Totnes road. The church (name not known) is a very small building of stone in the perpendicular style, the interior length, including the belfry, being only 52 feet, and the breadth across the transepts 32 feet; it consists of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower containing three bells, all apparently cast in 1633; there are three sedilia and an oaken pulpit; the screen, existing here at the beginning of the present century, has now disappeared; there are 80 sittings. The register dates from the year 1681.
The living is a rectory, united to that of East Ogwell. Ogwell House, now (1923) unoccupied, was originally erected by Sir Thomas Reynell in 1589: of this building, only the offices remain; the present residence dates from 1790, and is a handsome building of stone, standing in about 6 acres of gardens and meadow. John Isaac Esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. |
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West Ogwell Church - 2010 © Richard J. Brine |
RESIDENTS Badcock, Arthur William, Moor View Isaac, John, Ogwell Barton Lutte, Ernest Frederick, Cleavelands Martin, Richard, Rosemount Phillips, Adrian, Under Cleave Rowell, Alfred Owen, Ogwell Green Scott, Rev, Hubert Guillum Stanley, MA, Rector, The Rectory COMMERCIAL Badcock, Henry, farmer, Metley Coleridge, James, farmer, Westwoods Daw, Thomas Henry, baker Ellicott, William Elliott, wheelwright Hopkins, Thomas William, farmer, Tor Farm Isaac, John, farmer, Ogwell Barton Loder, Frederick George, edge tool maker, Holbeam Luxton, John, butcher Marks, Herbert Ernest, farmer, Buttercombe Mills, John, farmer, Witheridge Nickols, George, the Jolly Sailor Inn Northway, John, market gardener Palk, Richard, farmer, Rydon Farm Phillips, Adrian, farmer, Under Cleave Pinhey, Richard, farmer, Parsonage Farm Rowell, Alfred Owen, farmer, Stubbins Underhay, Richard Henry, farmer, Manor Farm Underhay, Walter, farmer, Holbeam. Webber, Henry, mason |
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19 August, 2010
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