In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chivelstone like this:
CHIVELSTONE, a village and a parish in Kingsbridge district, Devon. The village stands near Start bay, 5¼ miles SE of Kingsbridge, and 14 S of Brent r. station; and has a post office under Kingsbridge. The parish includes also the hamlets of Ford, Allington, and Prawle; and extends southward to the sea, between Start and Prawle points. ...
Acres, 2, 806; of which 110 are water. Real property, with South Poole and East Portlemouth, £8, 096. Pop., 523. Houses, 112. The manor belongs to T. Newman, Esq.; but most of the property to N. Pitts, Esq. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Stokenham, in the diocese of Exeter. The church stands conspicuously on a hill; is ancient; was not long ago repaired; and contains a carved screen, and a pulpit formed out of one block of wood. There is a small Independent chapel at Ford.
Chivelstone through time
Chivelstone is now part of South Hams district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Hams has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chivelstone itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chivelstone, in South Hams and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3079
Date accessed: 15th May 2024
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