LEIGH (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of COLYTON,
county of DEVON, 2 miles (W. by S.) from
Colyton, containing 327 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £ 11. 8. 9. Charles Gorden,
Esq. was patron in 1825. The church is dedicated
to St. Lawrence. The Rev. James How, in 1816, gave
£ 200 stock towards the support of a Sunday school, the
dividends arising from which are applied to that purpose.