Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SALTERTON, or Woodbury-Salterton

SALTERTON, or Woodbury-Salterton, a chapelry in Woodbury and Colaton-Raleigh parishes, Devon; 3 miles E of Topsham r. station. It was constituted in 1845; and its post town is Woodbury, under Exeter. Pop., 498. Houses, 100. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £133. Patron, Mrs. Thornycroft. The church is in the Doric style. There is a free school.


(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: Devon AncC
Place names: SALTERTON     |     SALTERTON OR WOODBURY SALTERTON     |     WOODBURY SALTERTON
Place: Woodbury Salterton

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