SHELDON, a parish in the hundred of HAYRIDGE,
county of DEVON, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Cullompton,
containing 186 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, endowed
with £ 600 private benefaction, and £ 800 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of John R. Drewe, Esq,
The church is dedicated to St. James.