SHERFORD, a parish in the hundred of COLERIDGE,
county of DEVON, 3 miles (E.) from Kingsbridge, containing
429 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stokenham, in the
archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter. The
church, dedicated to St. Martin, contains some good
screen-work. Attached to an old farm-house at Kennedon
are some remains of the manorial seat of Justice
Hals, who lived in the reign of Henry V.