Wear Gifford

During the past six years it has been the practice among some public bodies, including the Devon County Council, to sanction the alteration of the way in which the name of this Parish has been spelt "Weare Giffard" and in many quarters this has now become the general way of spelling it. As the alteration has, however, never been allowed by the Local Government Board, the District Auditor informed the Hon. Clerk to the Parish Council (Mr J M Tucker) on Wednesday last, the alteration in spelling the name was entirely illegal. A meeting of the Parish Council will shortly be called in order to rectify the error, and to revert to the old way of spelling the name until it has been legally altered.

Gazette articled dated 6 November 1906