East Allington 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 468 in 1801 396 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 120 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

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 East Allington 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 132/8 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 132NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX777485. 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 349 also covers the area.

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

EAST ALLINGTON was one of the numerous homes of the widespread Fortescue family. Fallapit belonged to them from the early 15th century to the mid 19th. It passed to them by the marriage of Sir Henry Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, with an heiress. Sir Edmund Fortescue so gallantly defended Salcombe Castle for the King in 1645 that upon its surrender he was allowed to march out with the garrison, bearing their arms, to Fallapit and to take with him the key of the castle. When the Fortescues sold the house this key was knocked down by the auctioneer for half a crown. Fallapit was rebuilt in a pseudo-Elizabethan style c. 1810-15, near the site of the old house, and "enlarged and beautified" in 1849. The estate was sold to William Cubitt, a member of the famous firm of London builders. He restored the church in 1875 at a cost to himself of £2,500.