RINGMORE

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

"RINGMORE, a parish in the hundred of Ermington, county Devon, 5 miles W. of Kingsbridge, and 4 S.W. of Modbury, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the coast of Bigbury Bay, near the mouth of the Avon. Mr. Roe's harriers meet in this parish. Small vessels come up the Avon laden chiefly with coal, and a considerable mackerel and pilchard fishery is carried on. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £235, and the glebe contains 100 acres. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £400. There are two schools."