UGBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of ERMINGTON,
county of DEVON, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Modbury,
containing 1429 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£20, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Master and
Wardens of the Grocers' Company. The church contains
a Norman font and some remains of ancient
screen-work. There was formerly a chapel at Earlscomb.
A fair for cattle is held on the third Tuesday
in every month. Sir John Kempthorn, a distinguished
admiral, was born at Widescomb, in this parish, in
1620.