CHURSTON-FERRERS, a parish in the hundred of HAYTOR, county of DEVON, if mile (N. W.) from Brixham, containing 726 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Brixham, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church contains an ancient wooden screen. This parish lies on the coast of the English channel, having the navigable river Dart running along its western side, and Torbay bounding it on the north. There is an almshouse for seven poor people.