Woodland: The little village of Woodland, in the Hundred of Haytor, Deanery of Ipplepen and Archdeaconry of Totnes, is about three miles distant from the town of Ashburton. … (description of ownership of the manor )… Lake, Levaton and Gurrington are estates in this parish; Lake appears to have been bought by Thomas Pynsent, Gurrington by Thomas Culling and Levaton by William Dyer, at the time of the dismemberment of the manor (1658) … (Woodland parish cut out of Ipplepen in 1536, the Parish Church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist) … In the chancel are many gravestones and several mural tablets belonging to the Dyers, and on the south, there is an ornamented slab bearing the following inscription: “In memoriam Thomae Pynsent de Lake Generosi, qui obit decimo tertio die Maii A.D. 1690. Aet suae 75.” Above are the arms of Pynsent, gu; a chevron engrailed between 3 estoiles of six points az. In the tower, the arch of which has been lately opened, we noticed a very ancient parish chest, coeval with the date of the church. … (ongoing description of Church and parish) … The parish extends over 1,606 acres and the census of 1871 shoed a populated of 160 people: Chas. Worthy, late 82nd Regt. Ashburton, 24th April 1874.
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