CHIVELSTONE, a parish in the hundred of COLERIDGE, county of DEVON, 6 miles (S. B. by S.) from Kingsbridge, containing 637 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stokingham, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter. The church is dedicated to St. Sylvester. At Ford there is a meeting-house for dissenters.