CLAYHEDON, a parish in the hundred of HEMYOCK,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellington,
containing 822 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated
in the king's books at £38. 5., and in the patronage
of the Rev. W. Clarke. The church is dedicated to St.
Andrew. A charity school was endowed with £ 110, by
Mary Waldron, in 1749, producing £7- 10. per annum,
for teaching children of this parish and the parish of
Hemyock.