Unusually for a Devon village it has excellent bus services between Barnstaple and Exeter.

The parish church of Holy Trinity dates from the 16th century, but it is of old foundation and its incumbents are recorded from 1277.

It has a notable granite arcade, wagon roof with carved bosses, an early 16th-century rood screen and a Norman font.

The south door is original and has blank Perpendicular tracery; the communion rails are c.

[4] The parish records include the baptisms of the three children of William and Ann Blackmore (of Town) during the 1820s.