Peters Marland is a small village andcivil parish in thelocal government district ofTorridge,Devon, England. The parish, which lies about four miles south of the town ofGreat Torrington, is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes ofLittle Torrington,Merton,Petrockstowe,Buckland Filleigh,Shebbear andLangtree.[1] In 2001 its population was 234, down from the 286 residents it had in 1901.[2]
In 1850 the parish was recorded as covering 2,200 acres with 351 parishioners. At that time most of the land within the parish belonged to Rev. John Moore-Stevens (died 1865), Archdeacon of Exeter, whose son was living atWinscott House in the parish; much also belonged to G. Oldham of Twigbear.[3] Both Winscott and Twigbear are formermanors that have their origins before theNorman Conquest, as also are Week and Winswell in the parish.[4]
The parish church, in the village, is dedicated to St Peter. It was extensivelyrestored in the 1860s by the Moore-Stevens family and is, according toW. G. Hoskins, "entirely without interest".[4][5]
Ball clay is quarried in the east of the parish, as it has been for many years. There was a brick and tile works here until 1940; many houses in Great Torrington are built of its cream-coloured bricks. TheNorth Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway served the works between 1925 and 1982.[2] Today the former railway line forms part of theTarka Trail series of footpaths and cycle tracks.
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