TAWTON (South), a parish, with two villages and six hamlets, in Okehampton district, Devon; on the NE border of Dartmoor, 4 miles E by S of Okehampton r. station. Post town, Okehampton, North Devon. Acres, 10,879. Real property, £7,774; of which £510 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1,758; in 1861, 1,541. Houses, 330. The manor, with Oxenham House, belongs to H. A. Hoare, Esq. Limestone is largely worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £150.* Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is old. There are a Wesleyan chapel, three alms houses, and other charities £33.

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