Description
Stoke Gabriel, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Devonshire, on the river Dart, 4 miles SE of Totnes station, and 3 1/2 from Paignton station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Totnes; money order and telegraph office, Totnes. Acreage, 2366; population, 618. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Waddeton Court, Sandridge, and Maisonette are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is chiefly Decorated English, and has been restored. There is a Baptist chapel. John Davis the celebrated navigator was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
