Description
Chivelstone, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands near Start Bay, 5 1/2 miles SE of Kingsbridge, and 13 from Dartmouth station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Kingsbridge; money order and telegraph office, Frogmore. The parish includes also the hamlets of Ford, Allington, and Prawle, and extends southward to the sea, between Start and Prawle Points. Acreage, 2715 of water, and 97 of tidal water and foreshore ; population, 436. 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, and contains a carved screen, and a pulpit formed out of one block of wood. There is a small Congregational chapel at Ford.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
