STONEHOUSE, WEST and EAST, (Devon) The former is the W. side of the passage at Crumwell-Ferry, near Plymouth, which shews
the ruins of the houses formerly burnt by the French. It was heretofore the estate of one Stonehouse, but at length came
to the Edgcombs; of whom, Sir Richard, built a house, castle-like, with round turrets at each end, on the decline of a
hill in the midst of a deer-park, near the mouth of the Tamar; from which there is a prospect of St. Nicholas-Island,
Plymouth, Saltash, and Milbrooke. East-Stone-house, anciently called Hipeston, the manor and seat of Joel Stonehouse, in
the R. of Henry III. which also descended to the Edgcombs, is become a large populous T.