Kingston
Kingston is located within South Hams local authority area. Historically it formed part of Ermington Hundred. It falls within Plympton 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 354 in 1801 399 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.
A parish history file is held in Kingsbridge 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 Kingston 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 131/7 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 131NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX637478. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX64NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Outdoor Leisure 20, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 349 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), to be included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
KINGSTON village has many attractive old houses. The church (St. James the Less), built of the local slate, is mainly an early 14th century building, probably cruciform originally, with N. and S. transepts. The N. transept was enlarged into an aisle, by a westward extension, in the 15th century At Wonwell and Langston are traces of former "mansions."
