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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brownston like this:
BROWNESTONE, a chapelry, with a village, in Modbury parish, Devon; near the South Devon railway, 3 miles N of Modbury. Statistics, with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Modbury, in the diocese of Exeter. The church was erected by the late Rev. Prebendary Oxenham; and is a bad specimen of modern Gothic.
Brownston is now part of SOUTH HAMS District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH HAMS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Brownston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brownston, in South Hams and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24726
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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