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:
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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