PORTLEMOUTH (EAST), a parish in the hundred of COLERIDGE, county of DEVON, 6 miles (S. by E.) from Kingsbridge, containing 391 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £29. 18. 4., and in the patronage of the Duke of Bolton. The church, dedicated to St. Onolaus, has a handsome wooden screen. Portlemouth commands one of the most beautiful sea-views in tbe county, including Kingsbridge, the aestuaries, and Salcombe harbour. Walter Jago and others, in 1679, left small sums towards the support of a schoolmaster for teaching Latin and arithmetic.