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Churston Ferrers

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OS grid reference
  
SX9056

Region
  
South West

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Dialling code
  
01803

Post town
  
Brixham

Unitary authority
  
Torbay

Country
  
England

Postcode district
  
TQ5

Ceremonial county
  
Devon

UK parliament constituency
  
Totnes

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Churston Ferrers is an historic civil parish, former manor and ecclesiastical parish in Devon, England, situated between the south coast towns Paignton and Brixham. Today it is administered by local government as part of Torbay. It contains the two villages of Churston, a coastal village, and the now larger Galmpton.

Map of Churston Ferrers, Brixham, UK

Churston railway station is on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway. In Churston Ferrers is situated the well regarded Churston Ferrers Grammar School.

The president of Churston Ferrers golf club is Ray Reardon, the Welsh former world number one snooker player. 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. Within the parish, off the Brixham Road, is situated Lupton House, a Palladian Country house. Both houses were seats of the Yarde-Buller family, created Baron Churston in 1858.

References

Churston Ferrers Wikipedia