Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OLDRIDGE

OLDRIDGE, a chapelry in St. Thomas parish, Devon; 3 miles S W of Crediton r. station. Post-town, Crediton, North Devon. The statistics are returned with the parish. The limits include only four farms and a fewcottages. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £60. Patron, J. W. Buller, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1789.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Devon AncC
Place: Oldridge

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