BRENTOR, a parish in the hundred of TAVISTOCK,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (N.) from Tavistock, containing
151 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter,
endowed with £ 1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Duke of Bedford. The church, dedicated to St.
Michael, occupies the summit of a lofty isolated rocky
eminence, and serves as a land-mark for vessels entering
Plymouth harbour. The small river Lid runs
through this parish, in which there is also a fine sheet
of water, called Stowford lake. Here are mines of
manganese.