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CHUDLEIGH

Volume 6 · 100 words · 1860 Edition

a market-town of England, county of Devon, and hundred of Exminster, near the Teign, 9 miles S.S.W. of Exeter, and 182 miles from London. (Pop. 1851) 2401. The town is pleasantly situated on an acclivity, and consists chiefly of a single street. It has a church, 2 chapels, and a grammar-school with 3 exhibitions to Cambridge. Market-day Saturday. The greater part of the town was destroyed by fire in 1808. The district is famous for its cider. In the vicinity are Ugborough Park, the seat of Lord Clifford, and Chudleigh rock, a great mass of limestone, with a remarkable cavern.