Virginstow
Virginstow is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Lifton Hundred. The population was 101 in 1801 115 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 31 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Holsworthy 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 Virginstow 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 74/11 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 74SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX377927. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX39SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 112, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 190. Geological sheet 323 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
VIRGINSTOW church (St. Bridget the Virgin) is well sighted on a ridge, commanding far views of Cornwall. Only the font now remains of the 12th century church, which was entirely rebuilt in 1851-2. The farms of Bradaford and Telleslow were Domesday estates.
