Description
Huish, South, a parish in Devonshire, on the coast, 3 miles SW of Kingsbridge station on the G.W.B. It includes the hamlets of Galmpton, Silverhill, and Hope Cove, and its post town is Kingsbridge. Acreage, 1166; population of the civil parish, 293. The curacy is annexed to the vicarage of Malborough, in the diocese of Exeter. Patrons of the benefice, the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. The church is modern, and comprises nave, S aisle, N transept, and chancel. There is a chapel for Plymouth Brethren at Galmpton. A lifeboat station is at Hope Cove.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
