Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COFTON

COFTON, a chapelry in Kenton parish, Devon; near the Starcross station of the South Devon railway, 6½ miles S by E of Exeter. Post town, Starcross, under Exeter. Pop., 450. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Exeter. Value, £100.* Patron, the Earl of Devon.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kenton CP/AP       Devon AncC       Kent AncC
Place: Cofton

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