Starcross
Starcross is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Exminster Hundred. It falls within Kenn 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.
A parish history file is held in Dawlish 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 Starcross 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 102/4 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 102NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX976817. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX98SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Starcross as included in the Library's illustrations catalogue 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:
Starcross is a large village in the parish of Kenton on the estuary of the Exe and the ancient landing-place for Kenton. There was an inn here (the Courtenay Anns) and "several neat buildings" by the time Polwhele wrote (1793), and the opening of the South Devon Railway in 1846 brought more people. Starcross never fulfilled expectations as a watering-place, being overshadowed by Dawlish, but it still wears, along the river front, a placid air of early Victorian days.
