View of Bickleigh (1824)
D. Havell
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Polwhele, Revd. Richard. The history of Devonshire. London: Cadell, Dilly & Murray, 1793-1806. Vol. II. pp. 357-8.BICKLEIGH, Bichelie in Domesday, may come from Buch, a cow, and Leigh, a place - Buch-leigh, the place of cows. Bickleigh is in length about four miles and half from north to south, and about two miles and half in the widest part from east to west. It is composed of marshes and some pretty high grounds. There are in the parish two bridges and half - one across a small river called the Dart, another across a mill-stream, of one arch each ; and half of a bridge across a rivulet by the name of Little Exe, the other half belonging to Tiverton - all built of stone, and repaired by the commissioners of the Tiverton turnpike. The parish is enclosed with common Devonshire hedges; the roads pretty good. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Also published: Amsterdam : A.Poncia
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1824