STOKEINTEIGNHEAD, a parish, with a village and four hamlets, in Newton-Abbot district, Devon; on the coast, 2 miles SSW of Teignmouth r. station. It has a post-office under Teignmouth. Acres, 2,531; of which 216 are water. Real property, £5,018. Pop., 628. Houses, 134. The property is much subdivided-The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £467.* Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is ancient but good, and was once collegiate. There are a national school, and charities £9.

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