[3] Historically, East Allington formed part of Stanborough Hundred, and for ecclesiastical purposes, it falls within Woodleigh Deanery.

[2] It was in East Allington Church, on 12 November 1943, that the announcement was first made to the people of a large part of the South Hams that they were all to be evacuated from the area by 20 December 1943.

Ultimately, 749 American soldiers died at Slapton Sands in April, 1944 in a German attack during the exercises.

1426), Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, by his second marriage to the daughter and heiress of Nicholas de Fallopit.

He defended Salcombe Castle for the king and on its fall in 1646 was allowed by the parliamentarians to march out honourably with the armed garrison which he took to Fallapit.

Mary died an early death on 1 August 1710; a monument exists to her in St Andrew's Church, East Allington.

[10] Her monument survives in St Mary's Church, Buckland Filleigh, consisting of a tablet of white and veined buff marble.

[13] Elizabeth's heir was her great-nephew Edmund Wells (1752–1779), who by royal licence assumed the name and arms of Fortescue.

[15] The house was rebuilt circa 1810–15 in a pseudo-Elizabethan style near the site of the ancient mansion, and was "enlarged and beautified" in 1849.

Mr G. H. Robinson sold the house in 1948 to Mr Shelley, who held it to May 1950 when he sold the house and grounds to Miss Marva Claire Temple (died 1976), who ran her co-educational boarding school, St Thomas More's School, there from May 1950 to 1958, when she retired.

On the 17th December 1997, the school closed, and in 1999, the house and estate were sold to CSMA (Civil Service Motoring Association).