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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Spreyton like this:
SPREYTON, a parish in Okehampton district, Devon; 2½ miles SSE of North Tawton r. station, and 7 ENE of Okehampton. Post town, Okehampton, North Devon. Acres, 3,606. Real property, £3,805. Pop., 358. Houses, 72. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £135.* Patron, the Rev. W. B. Doveton. The church is old but good.
Spreyton is now part of WEST DEVON District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST DEVON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Spreyton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Spreyton, in West Devon and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6018
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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