DAVIDSTOW, a parish in the hundred of LESNEWTH, county of CORNWALL, 35 miles (N. E.) from Camelford, containing 363 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the King, as Prince of Wales. The church is dedicated to St. David.