Description
Allington, East, a parish in Devonshire, 4 3/4 miles NW of Start Bay, and 11 from Kingsbridge Road station on the G.W.R. Allington has a post office under Mounts ; money order and telegraph office, Kingsbridge. Acreage, 3702; population, 469. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £380. The church has a screen, contains monuments of the Fortescue family, and is good; it was restored in 1875. There is a Methodist chapel. Fallapit, in the vicinity, is a noble mansion in the Elizabethan style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
