Kingswear

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

KINGSWEAR, a parish in the hundred of HAYTOR,county of DEVON, 3¼ miles (S. W. by S.) from Brixham,containing 328 inhabitants. The living is a perpetualcuracy, annexed to the vicarage of Brixham, in thearchdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, endowedwith £200 private benefaction, £200 royalbounty, and £300 parliamentary grant. The churchis dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket. Kingswear issituated on the eastern side of Dartmouth harbour,near the mouth of which are vestiges of a castle, andon the brow of a hill near the village are some remainsof military earth-works. From Dartmouth castle oppositeto the ruins of a fort here, a chain was formerlystretched to prevent ships entering the harbour: thisfort was taken from Sir Henry Carew by General Fairfax,in January 1646.