St Giles in the Wood is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England.

There are also a number of hamlets including High Bullen, Healand and Kingscott (where there is a Baptist chapel dating from 1833, and a late 19th-century school),[3] and in the south-west of the parish is the Royal Horticultural Society's Rosemoor Garden.

[4] The most notable historic residence within the parish is Stevenstone House, now demolished, the seat of the Rolle family since the 16th century, which when held by Hon.

[5] The present large farmhouse is built on the site of the mansion house belonging to Tristram Risdon, an early historian of Devon who died in 1640.

His next eldest brother was John Chafe (d. 1619), a merchant of Exeter who married Anne May of North Molton (sometimes given as "Mayho",[9] thus possibly of the Mayhew family of Boringdon Hall connected by marriage with the Parkers of North Molton, later Earls of Morley), whose son was Thomas Chafe (1611-1662), MP.