West Alvington, Devon

Description
Allington or Alvington, West, a parish in Devonshire. It lies on the Marlborough creek, 1 mile SW of Kingsbridge. The terminus of the new Kingsbridge railway is in the village. It has a post office, of the name of West Alvington, under Kingsbridge, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2712; population of the civil parish, 780; of the ecclesiastical, 888. It contains the hamlets of Woolstone, Easton, Sorley, and Bawcombe. Allington Manor belonged anciently to the Bastards. Garston gardens were famous for producing, on wall-trees, oranges and lemons of as fine a quality as any in Portugal The right to a weekly market was granted to West Allington in 1270, but went into disuse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £414. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church has a screen, contains tombs of the Bastards, and is very good. The vicarages of Salcombe and Marlborough and South Milton are now separate benefices. Bowringsleigh, an ancient mansion belonging to the Ilbert family, is in the parish, as also the historic mansion of Combe Royal.