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m. 10 Mar 1848
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m. Abt Apr 1880
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christening: 5/5/1854
1871 Census
LUSTLEIGH, or Listleigh, a small scattered village, in a romantic dell, opening to the valley of the West Teign or Bovy river, 3½ miles S.S.E. of Moreton Hampstead on the eastern side of Dartmoor [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)] A parish in Teignbridge Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes and the Diocese of Exeter. According to Peskett, inhabitants of Wreyland in Bovey Tracey were often registered at Lustleigh. Regarded as part of the Dartmoor area LUSTLEIGH is a picturesque village with a good deal of excellent domestic building in granite of 16th to 18th century date (plate 38), and also some "olde worlde" fabrications that followed the "discovery" of the village. The moorland scenery W. of the village is locally famous, especially at Lustleigh Cleave overhanging the beautiful little river Bovey. Becka Falls, also a famous beauty spot, are near by on the Becka Brook, though actually in Manaton parish. |