WERRINGTON

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]

"WERRINGTON, a parish and township in the hundred of Black-Torrington, county Devon, 2 miles N. of Launceston. It is situated on the road from Launceston to Stratton, near the river Tamar, which here divides the counties of Devon and Cornwall, and on the Bude canal. It is chiefly the property of the Duke of Northumberland, who occasionally resides at Werrington House, the old seat of the Morrices and Drakes, who formerly held the manor. There are mines of manganese. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Exeter, value £220. The church is dedicated to SS. Martin and Giles."