Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LANDSCOVE

LANDSCOVE, a chapelry in Staverton parish, Devon; near the river Dart and the South Devon railway, 4 miles N of Totnes. It was constituted in 1852; and its post-town is Ashburton, under Newton-Abbot. Pop, 399. Houses, 80. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £75.* Patron, the Vicar of Staverton. The church is a handsome modern edifice, and was erected at the expense of Miss Champernoune. There is a public school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Landscove EP       Staverton AP/CP       Devon AncC
Place: Landscove

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