LEIGH (NORTH), a parish, with a village, in Honiton district, Devon; on an affluent of the river Axe, 3¼ miles SSE of Honiton r. station. Post town, Honiton. Acres, 994. Real property, £1,130. Pop., 253. Houses, 52. The manor belonged to Lord Petre; passed, in 1794, to J. M. Howe, Esq.; and belongs now to Mrs. Proby. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £240. * Patron, J. Woodcock, Esq. The church is ancient; comprises nave, N aisle, and chancel; and contains an ancient oak screen and a small piscina. There are a national school, and charities £21.

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