Kingsteignton, Devon

Description
Kingsteignton, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the river Teign, 1 1/2 mile NNE of Newton Abbot station on the G.W.R., was originally called Teignton Regis, is a large place with a commodious wharf, and exports very great quantities of pipe clay and potters' clay. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newton Abbot. Acreage, 3945; population of civil parish, 1808; of the ecclesiastical, 1705. The chief landowner is Lord Clifford. Green Hill and Teignbridge House are chief residences. The climate was formerly remarkable for agues and other diseases, but has been corrected by means of drainage. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £330 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is ancient, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels and charities. Gale the theological writer was a native. King Stemdale, an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1851 from the civil parishes of Bakewell and Hope, Derbyshire. It is on the river Wye, 9 miles NW of Bakewell, and 3 from Buxton station on the M.R. and L. & N.W.R. Post town, Buxton. Population, 222. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £136 with residence. The church, erected in 1848, is a small building in the Early English style.