MORETON-HAMPSTEAD AND SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY, a railway in Devon; from a junction with the South Devon line at Wolborough, 12½ miles north north-westward, to Moreton-Hampstead. It was authorized in 1862, on a capital of £105,000 in shares, and £35,000 in loans; and was completed in the early part of 1867.

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