Ringmore (Shaldon)
Ringmore (Shaldon) is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford Hundred. Historic buildings listed under: Teignmouth.
A parish history file is held in Shaldon & Teignmouth 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 Ringmore (Shaldon) 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 110/10 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 110SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX926721. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX97SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Ringmore as included in the Library's illustrations collection. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
ST. NICHOLAS consists of the two old villages of Ringmore and Shaldon, which were annexed to Teignmouth for urban purposes in 1881. They are attractively situated on the S. bank of the Teign estuary, and connected with Teignmouth by a ferry and by Shaldon Bridge, opened in 1827. The original wooden bridge has been largely replaced by iron as it now carries the main Exeter toTorquay road.
Ringmore church (St. Nicholas) was thoroughly restored in 1896. Apart from a Norman font, it contains nothing of note. Shaldon church (St. Peter), at the end of the bridge, was built 1893-1902.
Shaldon village is very pleasing. It contains much late Georgian stucco, especially in the Fore Street and the Strand, and is a good place in which to idle away a summer morning.
