Description
Stoke-in-Teignhead, a parish, with a village and four hamlets, in Devonshire, on the coast, 3 miles SSW of Teignmouth station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Teignmouth; money order office, Combe-in-Teignhead; telegraph office, Shaldon. Acreage, 2167; population of the civil parish, 511; of the ecclesiastical, 631. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £320 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is ancient, was once collegiate, and has been both enlarged and restored. There are Bible Christian and Brethren chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
