TAWTON (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of
WONFORD, county of DEVON, 3 miles (E. by S.) from
Oakhampton, containing 1878 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £10, endowed with £15
per annum and £200 private benefaction, and £1400
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Canons of Windsor. The church is dedicated to
St. Andrew.