HEANTON-PUNCHARDEN, a parish in the hundred
of BRAUNTON, county of DEVON, 4 miles (W.N.W.)
from Barnstaple, containing 485 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£22. 7. 11., and in the patronage of - Bassett, Esq.
The church, dedicated to St. Augustine, contains a handsome
monument bearing the arms of the Coffin family;
it has also a wooden screen. The navigable river Tor
runs on the south of this parish.