LANDKEY, a parish in Barnstaple district, Devon; near the river Taw, 2½ miles ESE of Barnstaple r. station. Post-town, Barnstaple. Acres, 3,162. Real property, £4,622. Pop., 699. Houses, 148. The property is divided among a few. There are extensive lime-works. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is old but good, and has a massive tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a slightly endowed school, and charities £47.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))