JACOBSTOWE, a parish in the hundred of BLACK-TORRINGTON, county of DEVON, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Hatherleigh, containing 269 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £11. 4. 4. L. Burton, Esq. was patron in 1814. The church is dedicated to St. James.