Blackawton, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 6 miles W of Dartmouth, and 6 3/4 from Kingswear station on the G.W.R. It has a post office (R.S.O.) under Totness; money order and telegraph office, Dartmouth. Acreage of parish, 7447 of land and 36 of foreshore and water; population of the civil parish, 1015; of the ecclesiastical, 588. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £96 with residence. The church is Perpendicular English, and contains a carved oak pulpit and screen, and several neat monuments, and was well restored in 1887—the chance! in 1892-93. The hamlet of Street was formed out of the civil parish of Blackawton into an ecclesiastical parish in 1881. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
