Buckland Tout Saints is located within South Hams local authority area. Historically it formed part of Stanborough Hundred. It falls within Woodleigh 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 9 in 1801 37 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 Buckland Tout Saints 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 132/11,12 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 132SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX757461. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX74NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Outdoor Leisure 20, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 355 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

BUCKLAND TOUT SAINTS in beautiful wooded country, takes its second name from the Toutsaints family who held the manor in 1238. The church (St. Peter) was rebuilt in 1779, but was thoroughly restored in the early 1870s, and is now uninteresting. Buckland House, in a well-wooded park, is a Georgian house on a much older site. Courtlands contains much 15th and 16th century work disguised by later alterations. Bearscombe, a large good looking farmhouse of late 16th century date, was formerly called Woodmanston and corresponds to the manor of Buckland held by one Odeman or Wodeman in 1086. Its present name derives from the Beares who lived here in the 17th century, of whom "Justice Beare," a notorious persecutor of nonconformists, was one. The extensive slate quarries in this parish, which had a large export trade to Holland before the war of 1781, closed down in the late 19th century.