BUDLEIGH (EAST), a parish (formerly a market
town) in the eastern division of the hundred of BUDLEIGH,
county of DEVON, 4 miles ("W. S.w.) froni
Sidmouth, containing 1706 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of
Withycombe-Rawleigh annexed, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £30,
and iii the patronage of Lord Rolle. The church is de*'
dicated to All Saints. There is a meeting-house for
Independents. The river Otter flows through the parish.
The antiquity of this place is evinced by its having given
name to the hundred: the market was formerly held on
Sunday, and afterwards on Monday, but it has been
Wholly discontinued: a pleasure fair is held annually
on Easter-Tuesday. Budleigh-Salterton, in this parish;
is rising into repute as a watering-place; hot and cold
baths have been built, and there is comfortable accommodations
for visitors. A chapel of ease has been erected
at the expense of Lord Rolle; and there is a place of
worship forWesleyan Methodists. At Poer-Hayes is
an old mansion, noted as the birthplace of Sir Walter
Raleigh, in 1552, who was beheaded in 1618, besides
some remains of an ancient chapel, dedicated to St.
James.