Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England Genealogy: Difference between revisions

STOKEINTEIGNHEAD (St. Andrew), a '''parish''', in the union of Newton-Abbott, hundred of Wonford, Teignbridge and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (S.S.W.) from Teignmouth. The church is a cruciform structure, containing some good screenwork: it anciently belonged to a college for a warden and several chaplains, established in honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew, by John de Stanford, in the reign of Edward III.<ref>Lewis,Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51309&amp;strquery=Stokeinteignhead A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp.224-229.</ref>