Alverdiscott or Alscott, a parish in Devonshire, 4 miles from Bideford station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Bideford, the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2364; population, 269. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £158. The church is old, and has an interesting monument and some very good stained glass, especially in the east window. A small Methodist chapel stands at Stone-Cross.