a borough and market town in the county of Devon, and hundred of Lifton, 195 miles from London, and twenty-one from Exeter. There is very little trade in this place, the manufacture of serges having of late years disappeared. The corporation consisted of a mayor, burgesses, a recorder, and eight aldermen. It returned two members to parliament till 1832, but it is now disfranchised. The population amounted in 1801 to 1430, in 1811 to 1440, in 1821 to 1907, and in 1831 to 2055.