TINGMOUTH-WEST, (Devon) at the mouth of the r. Teign, S. W. of Exmouth. The Danes landed here in 970, to discover the
country previous to their invasion of it; and in Q. Anne's war the French burnt it, the houses being then almost all
thatched; but by a brief the inh. were soon enabled to build better. Here is a haven, the E. side of which is a shoal of
sand, that takes up a great space bet. the port and the T.