WEMBWORTHY, a parish, with a small village, in Crediton district, Devon; near Eggesford r. station, and 4 miles SSW of Chulmleigh. It has a post-office, designated Wembworthy, North Devon. Acres, 2,411. Real property, £1,545. Pop., 453. Houses, 90. Most of the land belongs to the Earl of Portsmouth. Rashleigh-Barton belongs to J. H. Tremayne, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £146.* Patrons, the Rev. J. P. Johnson and others. The church was enlarged and beautified about 1830. There is a national school.

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