GILES-on-the-HEATH (ST.), a parish in the hundred
of BLACK-TORRINGTON, county of DEVON, 4
miles (N. by E.) from Launceston, containing 301 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, and
in the patronage of Lord Valletort. There is a trifling
endowment, the bequest of Roger Harvey in 1767, for
teaching children.