Ringmore is located within South Hams local authority area. Historically it formed part of Ermington 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 309 in 1801 204 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 72 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 Ringmore 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 131/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 131SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX652459. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX64NE, 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:

RINGMORE a very attractive village with much good building of 16th and 18th century date, is worth a careful exploration. The coastal scenery is also beautiful. The church* (All Saints), though heavily restored in 1862-3, and lavishy coloured in the best Victorian manner, is worth inspection. It appears to be c. 1300 in date, but the N. transept contains Norman work from an earlier church. At Okenbury, a Domesday manor, are substantial remains of the former medieval mansion.

*Additional material provided by Dr D. Collinson. Ringmore Historical Society (2006).

The church at Ringmore is known as All Hallows rather than All Saints. I believe that has always been so. The north transept contains Saxon rather than Norman work. This was determined by Prebendary F.C.Hingeston-Randolph who undertook the extensive restoration work in the 1860s. He was a notable church architect and church historian, and worked a great deal and for many years with archival material at the cathedral, Exeter. This small error was compounded by Pevsner in his Devon book, and persisted there for many years, but it has been corrected in its most recent edition. The error was also compounded by Miss Cresswell in her account of All Hallows. When Hingeston-Randolph restored the church he built out the north wall that connected with the north transept, largely using its original stone, to incorporate the organ he gave to All Hallows. His extension created a tiny north aisle lady chapel which Miss Cresswell took to be extremely ancient and a part of the very early church. There is a letter from Hingeston-Randolph to Miss Cresswell (possibly at the Devon Record Office) explaining that he himself had designed and built the little chapel as part of his extension of the north wall.