John Lyle, Henry Cadd, Richard Venning, John Ham, John Allin, Richard Hayman.
And of these, John Lyle rang at the accession of King George the Fourth, and of his present Majesty King William the Fourth, being then in his ninety-sixth year: but all are now gathered to their fathers.
And here, as appertaining more to the general character of the country than to any particular parish, in reference to the terrific cliffs which surround this coast, it may be proper to state a fact communicated by Mr. Kingdon; that, from actual measurement taken by himself, Hennacleve cliff on Westcot Down, in the parish of Moorwinstow, is 430 feet above the level of the beach.
Stratton measures 2300 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 3563 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 710 | 19 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 960 | in 1811, 1094 | in 1821, 1580 | in 1831, 1613 |
giving an increase of 68 per cent in 30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. Jacob Hawker, presented by the King as Prince of Wales in 1833.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
This parish, like the adjoining one of Kilkhampton, is composed of compact and of schistose varieties of dunstone, occasionally interspersed with beds of calcareous schist and limestone.