Description
Cornworthy, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Dart, 4 miles SSE of Totnes station on the G.W.R. It contains the hamlets of Allaleigh and East Cornworthy, and its post town is Totnes; money order and telegraph office, Totnes. Acreage, 2625 of land and 258 of tidal water and foreshore; population, 401. An Augustinian nunnery was founded on the farm of Court-Prior by the ancestors of the Edgcombes, and some remains of it exist. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £170 with residence. The church is a fine ancient edifice, with a square tower, and has an ancient carved oak screen and a very fine monument of Sir T. Harris of the year 1610. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
