ALWINGTON, a parish in the hundred of SHEBBEAR,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (S.W. by W.) from
Bideford, containing 386 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £17- 4. 9., and
in the patronage of Richard Pine Coffin, Esq. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. In Yeo Vale, so
called from being intersected by the river Yeo, are
the remains of an ancient chapel. Here are almshouses
for three poor persons, endowed, in 1696, byR. Coffin,
Esq.