Brownston is located within South Hams local authority area. Historically it formed part of Ermington Hundred. Hamlet in Modbury parish.

You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database.

Maps: The image below is of the Brownston 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 126/9 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 126SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX699528. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX65SE 75SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Outdoor Leisure 20, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 349 also covers the area.