Bigbury, a village a parish, and a bay in Devonshire. The village stands on the right side of the river Avon, 1 1/2 mile from the bay, 3 1/2 miles S of Modbury, and 9 S of Ivy-bridge station on the G.W.R. The parish also includes the hamlet of St Ann's Chapel. It has a post office under Kings-bridge ; money order and telegraph office, Aveton Gifford. Acreage, 2885; population of the civil parish, 365; of the ecclesiastical, 355. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £340 with residence. The church is Perpendicular English, with tower and spire, and is good. It was restored in 1872. There is a Baptist chapel. the bay extends from Bolt-Tail to Stoke-Point; measures 7 1/2 miles across the entrance, and 3 3/4 thence to the head; receives the rivers Avon and Erme, is beset with rocks, and very dangerous in navigation; has several coves in its coast; and presents a variety of picturesque views.
