Churston Ferrers, Devon

Description
Churston Ferrers, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the coast with a station on the G.W.R., 220 miles from London, and gives the title of Baron to the family of Yarde Buller. The parish includes also the hamlet of Galmpton, and its post town is Brixham (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Churston railway station. Acreage, 2533 of land and 106 of tidal water and foreshore; population of the civil parish, 567; of the ecclesiastical, including Brixham, 2106. The manor belonged anciently to the Ferrers, passed to the Yardes and the Bullers, and belongs now to Lord Churston of Churston Ferrers, who was raised to the peerage in 1858. Lupton is the seat of Lord Churston. The living is a vicarage annexed to the vicarage of Brixham in the diocese of Exeter; value, £494. Patron, the Crown. The church is an ancient edifice with a low tower, and was restored in 1865. There is a small Congregational chapel at Galmpton.