Burrington is a village and

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. In 2001 the population was 538. The village has a church, a Methodist chapel, a pub and shop-cum-Post Office. Unusually for a Devon village it has excellent bus services between

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and

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. The church, Holy Trinity, is

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and the pub, the ''Barnstaple Inn'', is Grade II listed. The pub is one of only two buildings within the village that are still thatched. The parish church of Holy Trinity dates from the 16th century, but it is of old foundation and its

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s are recorded from 1277. It has a notable granite arcade, wagon roof with carved bosses, an early 16th-century rood screen and a Norman font. The tower is in the position of a north transept. The south door is original and has blank Perpendicular tracery; the communion rails are c. 1700. Northcote Manor, dating from at least the 1700s is located within the parish. The parish records include the baptisms of the three 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, the author of ''

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''.

References

External links

Burrington village website

Historical information on Burrington from Genuki

Northcote Manor website
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