SLAPTON, a parish in the hundred of COLERIDGE,
county of DEVON, 6 miles (S. W.) from Dartmouth,
containing 689 inhabitants. The living is-a discharged
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and
diocese of Exeter, endowed with £ 600 private benefac-
tion, £400 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Parishioners. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. John and Charles
Kelland, about. 1690, bequeathed £150, which, with
accumulations, now produces about £20 per annum,
applied to the instruction and apprenticing of poor
children.