COLERIDGE is a parish and village on the river Taw, 3 miles south from Eggesford station on the North Devon branch of the London and South Western railway, 5½ south from Chulmleigh and 10 north-west from Crediton, in the Northern division of the county, North Tawton hundred, South Molton petty sessional division, Crediton union and county court district, rural deanery of Chulmleigh, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter.  The church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: it was partially restored in 1873 by the Earl of Portsmouth, at a cost of £400.  The register dates from the year 1556.  The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Nymet Roland, average tithe rent-charge £186, joint net yearly value £263, including 115 acres of glebe, in the gift of W. H. Kelland esq. and held since 1872 by the Rev. Frederick Emmanuel Gutteres S.C.L of New Inn Hall, Oxford, who resides at Nymet Rowland.  The manor was purchased by the Hon. Newton Fellowes, afterwards 4th Earl of Portsmouth, from Montagu Parker esq. whose family had held it for a considerable time.  The Earl of Portsmouth is now lord of the manor and principal landowner, and impropriator of the rectorial tithe, commuted at £200.  Mr. Born, of Colwall, Herefordshire, Mr. Born, of Bellstone, Mr. Issac, the Misses Kingdon and others are also landowners.  Coleridge Barton, formerly the property of Sir J. H. Williams bart. was bought in 1876 by Mr. William Harris, yeoman: Birch Barton is the property of Charles Henry Jellicoe Radford esq. of Exeter; Gilscot belongs to Silvanus Partridge Kelland esq. of South Molton and William Henry Butcher esq. of Truro; Frost is the property of the Earl of Portsmouth.  The soil is loam; the sub-soil is shale.  The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats.  The area is 3,670 acres; rateable value £2,872; the population in 1891 was 395.

EAST LEIGH is a hamlet, 1½ miles south.

Sexton, John Cockerham.

WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 6 p.m.  Letters through Wembworthy R.S.O arrive at 8.10 a.m.  The nearest money order office is at Wembworthy & telegraph office at Lapford station.

A School Board of 5 members was formed Aug. 23, 1872; J. Hannaford, Chulmleigh, clerk to the board.

Board School (mixed), built in 1874, for 95 children; average attendance, 55; Mrs. Catherine Luxton, mistress.

COLERIDGE

BRAILEY Miss
PARTRIDGE Mrs. Park mill
PEAKE Chas. Edwd. A.M.I.C.E., Gilscot

COMMERCIAL

BLACKMORE Joseph, millwright
BORN Arthur, saddler
BORN Thomas, basket maker
BROOKS Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper
COCKERHAM John, thatcher & sexton
COCKERHAM Robert, shoe maker
DENSHAM Richard, farmer, Birch
ELSTON Richard, farmer, Oak
FISHER John, farmer, Lower Chilverton
FISHER William, farmer, Leigh Barton
HARRIS Wm., yeoman, Coldridge Barton
HEYWOOD John Rouncely, shoe maker
HOOPER William, farmer, Chilverton
HOOPER Wm. Dart, farmer, Park Farm
ISSAC William, saddler
KEENOR John, mason
KELLAND Robert, farmer, Frost
LEACH Uriah, carpenter

LUXTON George, farmer & landowner, Tawbridge
LUXTON Henry, farmer, Southmoor
MOON John Frank, farmer, Gilscott
NEWCOMBE William, wheelwright
NORTHAM Wm, farmer, Skinnersland
OLDING George, grocer & farmer
PARTRIDGE Frances (Mrs.), farmer and miller (water), Park mill
SHARAM John, tailor
SANDERS John, Stag's Head P.H. & blacksmith
STAPLETON Richard, marine store dealer
STONE Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Hankridge
STONEMAN Richard, road contractor
WOODMAN William, farmer, Frog Berry

EAST LEIGH

BASTOW John, blacksmith
CHAMMINGS Wm., farmer, Trinity Leigh
COCKERHAM Edmund, thatcher
FISHER William, farmer
ISSAC John Fras., farmer, West Leigh
LUXTON John, farmer, West Leigh
LUXTON William, farmer, Venn
VICARY Samuel, dairyman