Burrington, Devon

Burrington, Devon

Burrington is a village and civil parish in North Devon, England.

Burrington is a typical Devon village with a church, a Methodist Chapel, a pub (Barnstaple Inn) and shop cum Post Office. Unusually for a Devon village it has excellent bus services between Barnstaple and Exeter. The church, Holy Trinity, is Grade 1 listed and the pub, the Barnstaple Inn, is grade 2 listed. The pub is one of only two buildings within the village that are still thatched.

The parish records include the baptisms of the 3 children of William and Ann Blackmore (of Town) during the 1820s. William is described as the Schoolteacher.

One of the vicars of Burrington was Samuel Davis, the second of whose wives was Jane Elizabeth Blackmore - half sister of Richard Doddridge Blackmore (who wrote Lorna Doone)

External links

* [http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Burrington Genuki Burrington page]


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