Townstall, Devon, England Genealogy: Difference between revisions

TOWNSTALL (St. Clement) is one of the '''parishes''' in the borough, seaport, and market-town of Dartmouth, otherwise Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, having separate jurisdiction, in the union of Totnes, locally in the hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of Devon, 30¾ miles (S. by W.) from Exeter, and 204 (W. S. W.) from London. Dartmouth comprises the parishes of St. Petrox, St. Saviour, Townstall (St. Clement), and part of Stoke-Fleming. The living of St. Saviour's is annexed to the vicarage of Townstall. There are places of worship for '''Particular Baptists''', '''Independents''', and '''Wesleyans'''.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50914 A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 8-15.</ref>