INSTOW, a parish in the hundred of FREMINGTON,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Bideford,
containing 353 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £ 12. 17. 3.,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £300 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of C. W. Sibthorp,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
The navigable river Torr runs on the north, and the
Torridge on the west, of the parish. A trifling endowment
Was given by John Tucker for teaching poor
children.