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Adjacent to the village hall and auto mechanic is the orchard (also known as the Town Orchard), which is around 5 acres (2.0 hectares) of public park land, gifted to the parish in 1965 by a local. [56] The orchard hosts the annual Lustleigh May Day, and there is a large granite rock with carved throne used for crowning of the May Queen.
Following the post-war revival, the event moved to the Town Orchard in the village centre, where a new rock was carved, and all May Queens from 1954 to present are engraved upon it. [3] [13] On top of the granite boulder in the orchard is a granite throne, [14] carved to celebrate the millennium and bearing the 'MM' mark.
The church graveyard contains the remains of former Lustleigh residents. The graveyard is now full, and with the exception of those with family plots, new burials take place at the modern cemetery on Mill Lane. A memorial lamp, donated by James Nutcombe Gould (1849–1899) and his wife Edith (1859–1900), is now a Grade II listed object. [6]
The Lustleigh Show is an annual country show held in the village of Lustleigh, Devon, England. The show takes place on the August Bank Holiday Monday every year, and has been running since 1887. The show typically attracts upwards of 4,000 visitors, to a village with a population under 700.
Sutreworde was a village and manor in historical record, also noted as Suðeswyrðe, located within the Teignbridge Hundred.The modern identity of this village has been the subject of academic debate, but is thought to have been within the parish of Lustleigh, but not at the location of the current village.
William is believed to have added the south chapel to the Church of St John the Baptist, near to the manor house in Lustleigh. There is an effigy of him within the church. [7] At his death, William's will stated that he should be buried with his ancestors at the church in Lustleigh, but his executors interred his body at Holbeton [a] instead ...
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The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep-sided valley, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, with the River Bovey flowing at the bottom approximately South-Easterly. [6]Nothing can spoil the Cleave, where the granite, piled up like giants' castles, crowns the gorge, and is spread all the way to the stream below.