Revelstoke, Devon

Description
Revelstoke, a parish in Devonshire, on the coast, 1 1/2 mile SE of Newton Ferrers, and 7 miles S by E of Plympton station on the G.W.R. It contains the fishing village of Noss Mayo, and has a post office under Plympton; money order and telegraph office, Newton Ferrers. Acreage, 1541; population, 470. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Crabs, lobsters, pilchards, and herrings are caught in large quantities. Lord Revelstoke is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The magnificent church of St Peter was erected in 1882 at a cost of £32,000, borne entirely by Lord Revelstoke, and is a stone edifice in the Perpendicular style. It stands on a commanding site overlooking the Yealm. Its marble, granite, and carved oak-work is unsurpassed in the county, and it has a beautiful organ. A chapel of ease in the village of Noss Mayo, built in 1840, is now used as a school and a library and reading-room.