THURLESTONE

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

"THURLESTONE, a parish in the hundred of Stanborough, county Devon, 4 miles S.W. of Kingsbridge, its post town, and 13 W. of Kingsbridge-road railway station. The village is situated on the eastern bank of the river Avon, near Bigbury Bay, in the English Channel. The parish includes the hamlets of Buckland, Banthorn, and Avonmouth. The soil is loamy, with a subsoil of rock. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £321. There is a day-school for both sexes. The Earl of Devon is lord of the manor."

"AVONMOUTH, a hamlet in the parish of Thurlestone, hundred of Stanborough, in the county of Devon, 4 miles to the W. of Kingsbridge. It lies at the mouth of the small river Aven, or Avon, which has its source in Dartmoor and falls into the English Channel."

"BANTHAM, a hamlet in the parish of Thurlestone and hundred of Stanborough, in the county of Devon, 4 miles from Kingsbridge. It is situated on the coast, at the mouth of the river Aven, opposite to Burr Island, in Bigbury Bay."

"BUCKLAND, a hamlet in the parish of Thurlestone, hundred of Stanborough, in the county of Devon, 3 miles to the W. of Kingsbridge. It is seated on the coast of the English Channel."