BLACKAUTON, a parish in the hundred of COLERIDGE,
county of DEVON, 5 miles (W. by N.) from
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Dartmouth, containing 1227 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£15. 8. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Col.
Scale. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, contains
a Norman font, and a wooden screen richly carved.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.