COVE, 4 ½ miles north from Tiverton and 2 ½ from Bampton station on the Exe Valley section of the Great Western railway, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1886. The church of St. John the Baptist, erected in 1846 on the site of an earlier building, is an edifice of stone in a plain Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave and vestry, and has 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £168, in the alternate gift of Maj.-Gen. John Spurway, of Oakford, and the Rev. Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan bart. and held since 1886 by the Rev. Arthur Rawlings M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who resides at Tiverton.

Cove House, the seat of Mrs. North Row, is pleasantly situated on the slope of the eminence on which the church stands; the present mansion, an imposing edifice of stone was erected in 1800, and has since been considerably enlarged: the family are descended from Sir Row, of Totnes, about 1490; the manor of Cove was acquired in 1763, by Robert Row, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King at Arms, 1758.