Description

Arlington, a parish in Devon, near East Down, 6 miles NNE of Barnstaple station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Barnstaple; money order office, Comb Martin; telegraph office, Bratton Fleming. Acreage, 2590 ; population of the civil parish, 238; of the ecclesiastical, with Loxhore, 430. The manor belongs to the Chichester family, and came into their possession in the time of Henry VII.; Arlington Court, the family seat, is a very handsome edifice. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £305. The church, with the exception of the tower, has been rebuilt; it is in the Gothic style, and contains many memorials of the Chichesters.