MILTON-ABBOT, a parish in the hundred of TAVISTOCK,
county of DEVON, 5 miles (N. W. by W.)
from Tavistock, containing 1151 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and
diocese of Exeter, rated in the Icing's books at
£ 19. 13. 6., and in the patronage of the Duke of Bedford.
The church is dedicated to St. Constantino. In
this parish, which is watered by the river Tamar, is the
Anglo-Swiss domain of the Duke of Bedford, distinguished
for its beatitiful scenery and landscape gardening.