NEWTON (ST-PETROCK), a parish inthe hundred
of SHEBBEAR, county of DEVON, 1\ miles (S. W.) from
Great Torrington, containing 278 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstable,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in. the king's books at
£8. 5. 7. The Rev. F. D. Lempriere was patron in
1824.