DOWN (EAST), a parish in the hundred of BRAUNTON,
county of DEVON, 6 miles (N. N. E.) from Barnstaple,
containing 422 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the Icing's books at £ 18. 3. 9. The
Rev. J. P. Coffin was patron in 1800. The church is
dedicated to St. John the Baptist. At a place called
Nortcote are several stones, probably commemorative of
some British heroes slain in battle.