Clannaborough
A couple of miles outside Bow in the Crediton direction is the small Parish of Clannaborough.
The 16th century church, dedicated to St Petrock,
is at the North end of a narrow strip of land stretching 6 miles to
the South, making up just 874 acres.
For about three hundred years from 1654 Clannaborough was the home to the Wreford family. .
William Wreford (1781-1852) "found drowned"
Robert Phayre (1853-1886) shot
dead by insurgents in Burma
John Julian Wreford Hardman (1863-1900) dies in the Boer War; remembered in Clannaborough Church
The Frekes of Clannaborough:
Clergymen 1733-1809