Strete Devon Family History Guide

Strete is a chapelry of Blackawton Ancient Parish in Devon.

Alternative names: Blackawton St Michael, Street

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1836
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Street or Strete, an ecclesiastical parish in Devonshire, formed out of the parish of Blackawton in 1881. It has a post office under Dartmouth; money order office, Torcross; telegraph office, Stoke Fleming. Population, 392. It sends three members to the Blackawton parish council.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £95. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is a building of stone in the Gothic style, built in 1836. A fine carved oak pulpit was erected in 1889. One of the carvings represents the archangel Michael, to whom the church is dedicated. A stained glass window represents the Angel of the Ascension.

There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

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