Coryton
Coryton is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Lifton Hundred. It falls within Tavistock Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 154 in 1801 205 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.
A parish history file is held in Tavistock Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.
Maps: The image below is of the Coryton area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.
On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 87/15,97/3 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 87SE,97NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX455838. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX48SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 112, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 201. Geological sheet 337 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
CORYTON lies in a beautiful situation where the Lyd valley opens out The church (St. Andrew) has a pleasant exterior, with some 13th century work in the chancel, but the interior is totally uninteresting as a result of thorough restoration in 1885. There was formerly a large quarry, opened in 1778, which produced excellent slates for roofing, tombstones, chimney-pieces, billiard tables, etc.
