BRIDGE-RULE, a parish comprising East Rule in
the hundred of BLACK-TORRINGTON, county of DEVON,
and West Rule in the hundred of STRATTON, county
of CORNWALL, 4 miles (W.) from Holsworthy, containing
436 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £14, endowed
with £SOO private benefaction, £ 400 royal bounty, and
£600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Rev. T. H. Kingdon. The river Tamar flows past th;s
place, over which there is a bridge; and from this
bridge, together with the manor having been held by
Ruald, or Reginald, soon after the Conquest, Bridge^
Rule derives its name. The church stands in. that part
of the parish which is in Devonshire: the part that is
in Cornwall is intersected by the Bude and Launceston
canal.