HUNTSHAW, a parish in the hundred of FREMINGTON,
county of DEVON, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Great
Torrington, containing 291 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and
diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £11.7.1.
The Earl of Orford was patron in 1787. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. John Lovering,
in 1671, bequeathed £200 to purchase lands, a moiety
of the proceeds of which, viz., £ 16, is applied in teaching
sixteen children. Huntshaw has also the right of
sending two poor boys to the school at Weare-Giifard.