Whitstone is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford 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. The population was 471 in 1801 409 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 90 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Teignmouth 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 Whitstone 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 79/4 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 79NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX869935. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX89SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 114, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 325 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Whitstone as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. 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:

WHITESTONE is very hilly and beautiful, with fine woods along its N. slopes. There are magnificent views in all directions, especially from Waddlesdown (815 ft.).

Several of the farmsteads and hamlets of the parish date from pre-Conquest times (e.g. aldridge, Whitestone, Heath Barton, Halsford, Rowhorne, and West Town), and most of the rest from the period of forest-clearing in the 13th century At the remote hamlet of Old ridge the medieval chapel was rebuilt in 1789 and again in 1842. It is a plain, not unpleasing little building, amid beautiful scenery.

Whitestone church (St. Catherine of Alexandria) stands high. Its tower has been for centuries a landmark for mariners entering Exmouth haven, 15 m. away. The church is attractive, mostly a 15th century reconstruction of an earlier building, much restored again early in the 17th century, probably about 1621 when the W. gallery was put in. Only the front of the gallery now re- mains, the rest having been taken down in 1912. Some medieval glass remains in two windows: the rest was removed about 1862 by the then rector, who substituted for it the poor stuff we see to-day.