HALBERTON, a parish in the hundred of HALBERTON,
county of DEVON, 3 miles (E.) from Tiverton,
containing 1598 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £31, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. This
church, dedicated to St. Andrew, once appertained to
the abbey of St. Augustine in Bristol, and in the churchyard
was anciently a chantry chapel. A fraternity of
St. John was also attached to the church, A branch of
the Grand Western canal passes through the parish.