CHIVELSTONE

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]

"CHIVELSTONE, a parish in the hundred of Coleridge, in the county of Devon, 7 miles S. of Kingsbridge, its post town. It is pleasantly situated in a valley, and contains the hamlets of Ford, South Allington, and Prawle. The South Devon railway passes within a few miles of the village, and has a station at Kingsbridge Road. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Stokenham, in the diocese of Exeter, and in the patronage of the crown. The church, dedicated to St. Sylvester, is an old stone edifice, with a beautiful screen and curious pulpit. Thomas Newman, Esq., is lord of the manor."

"EAST ALLINGTON, (or East Alvington), a hamlet in the parish of Chivelstone, hundred of Coleridge, in the county of Devon, 5 miles to the S.E. of Kingsbridge.

"FORD, a hamlet in the parish of Chivelstone, county Devon, 4 miles S.E. of Kingsbridge."

"PRAWLE, a hamlet in the parish of Chivelstone, county Devon, 6 miles S.E. of Kingsbridge. It is situated near Prawle Point, and is a coastguard station."