DUNTERTON

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]

"DUNTERTON, a parish in the hundred of Lifton, in the county of Devon, 5 miles S.E. of Launceston, and 7 N.W. of Tavistock. Milton Abbot is its post town. It is situated on the river Tamar, which bounds it on the S. and W. Green feldspar and freestone are quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter, in the patronage of the Rev. N. T. Royse. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a small stone structure of about the time of Henry VI.; it has a handsome pinnacled tower, containing three bells. A chantry formerly stood in the neighbourhood."