THORNBURY, a parish in the hundred of BLACK-TORRINGTON,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (N.E. by E.)
from Holsworthy, containing 517 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£11.3. llf., and in the patronage of William Morris
Fry, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a
Norman door, and contains a monument of an armed
knight and his lady, with several monumental effigies of
the Edgecumbe family.