Charleton Devon Family History Guide

Charleton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon. Buckland Tout Saints is a chapelry of Charleton.

Other places in the parish include: Frogmore, Lidstone, Goveton, and Gaveton.

Alternative names: Charleton with Buckland Tout Saints

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1561
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Plymouth Brethren, and Wesleyan Methodist. 

Adjacent Parishes

• Buckland Tout Saints
• Salcombe
• Moreleigh
• South Pool
• Loddiswell
• West Alvington
• Woodleigh
• Malborough
• Dodbrooke
• East Allington
• Sherford

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHARLETON, a village and a parish in Kingsbridge district, Devon. The village stands on a sea-creek, 2 miles SSE of Kingsbridge, and 11 S by E of Kingsbridge Road r. station; and is a straggling place, in two parts, called East and West. The parish includes also the hamlets of Goveton, Lidstone, and part of Frogmore Post Town, Kingsbridge. Acres, 2,779; of which 400 are water. Real property, with Sherford, £7,451. Pop., 568. Houses, 127. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £522. Patron, Mrs. J. Twysden. The church is ancient; consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, with a tower; and has an ancient carved screen.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Devon
• Civil Registration District: Kingsbridge
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
• Diocese: Exeter
• Rural Deanery: Woodleigh
• Poor Law Union: Kingsbridge
• Hundred: Coleridge
• Province: Canterbury