HUISH (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of
STANBOROUGH, county of DEVON, 3 miles (S.W.) from
Kingsbridge, containing 383 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of West
Allington, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese
of Exeter. On the rocks near the sea are the remains
of an old castle, which, according to tradition,
suffered from Cromwell's party during the civil war:
a cannon ball and a curious antique key were found,
about seven years since, within the walls. At Woodville,
in this parish, lemons, oranges, citrons, and olives,
flourish against the garden walls, with only a temporary
protection from the weather; about seven years since
the Mediterranean aloe blossomed in open ground, and
attained the height of twenty-seven feet, but died
immediately, though not twenty years of age, leaving
numerous suckers. The fishing cove in Bigbury bay
called Outer Hope, is in this parish.