Churston Ferrers
| Churston Ferrers | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Churston Ferrers, with the church and Churston Court | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX902561 |
| Location: | 50°23’41"N, 3°32’41"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Brixham |
| Postcode: | TQ5 |
| Dialling code: | 01803 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Torbay |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Totnes |
Churston Ferrers is a small village sitting between the south coast towns Paignton and Brixham in south-eastern Devon.
Churston railway station is on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway from which steam trains run daily. In Churston Ferrers is situated the well regarded Churston Ferrers Grammar School.
The village was described by White in 1850 as:
CHURSTON-FERRERS is a pleasant village, on a gentle eminence on the south side of Torbay, 1½ miles W. of Brixham. Its parish has 2527A. 3R. 8P. of land, and 772 inhabitants, of whom 261 are in Galmpton hamlet, near the river Dart, 1 mile W. of the village. The lofty eminence of Warborough Common commands an extensive view of Torbay, and the south-eastern coast of Devon. Sir J.B.Y. Buller, Bart., is lord of the manor of Churston-Ferrers, and his eldest son resides at Churston Court, the ancient seat of the Yardes, which has lately been modernised, . . . J.F. Luttrell, Esq., owns Galmpton, and Col. Carlyon has a seat and estate at Greenway. The soil is mostly freehold, and well-adapted for the growth of corn. The Church is an ancient structure, with a tower and four bells. . . . The perpetual curacy is annexed to the vicarage of Brixham; and the tithes were commuted in 1840, the vicarial for £180, and the rectorial for £212. The latter belong to Miss Knollis. Here is a small dissenting chapel."—From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)
Churches
The parish church is St Mary The Virgin, in the north part of the village.
The Chapel of the Good Shepherd is also within the ecclesiastical parish, in Galmpton.
About the village
Churston Court, the former manor house of Churston Ferrers and today a hotel, is a Grade II* listed building situated to the immediate west of the parish church. Also within the parish, off the Brixham Road, is Lupton House, a Palladian Country house. Both houses were seats of the Yarde-Buller family, created Baron Churston in 1858.
Sport and leisure
- Golf: Churston Ferrers Golf Club
Cultural references
The novelist Agatha Christie was a regular guest of Lord Churston at Churston Court, and in her work The ABC Murders, the third murder takes place in Churston.
Outside links
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