BOYTON, a parish partly in the hundred of BLACK-TORRINGTON,
county of DEVON, but chiefly in the
hundred of STRATTON, county of CORNWALL, 5 miles (N.
by W.) from Launceston, containing, with the hamlet of
Northcott, 489 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, endowed with £ 200 royal bounty, and £ 200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rev.
G. Prideaux. The Bude and Launceston, or Tamar,
canal crosses the parish. A fair is held annually on the
5th of August. The old mansions of Bradridge and
Beardon have been converted into farm-houses. Between
this place and North Tamerton there is an ancient
thatched building, called Hornacott Chapel, now occupied
by a labourer.