The parish includes the tything of Canonteign, where there are two notable historic houses. Canonteign Barton is a late Tudor stone house and a Grade I listed building.[1] Canonteign House is a neo-classical building completed for Captain Pownoll Pellew, who in the last year of his life succeeded his father as Viscount Exmouth.[2]Шаблон:Sfn
The west tower is a Gothic Survival addition of 1630Шаблон:Sfn and has a ring of eight bells. John III and Christopher IV Pennington of Stoke Climsland, Cornwall cast a ring of six bells for the tower in 1785. John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, Leicestershire added a new treble and second bell in 1973, increasing the ring to eight.[4]
The Teign Valley Railway was built from Шаблон:Rws to Christow in 1882. But Christow railway station was not opened until 1903, when the line was extended to Exeter. The line was closed to passenger trains in 1958 and freight in 1961.
Notable former residents
As well as the Viscounts Exmouth, Christow was the home of Lady daughter of the 1st Viscount. She was the wife of Admiral Sir Lawrence Halsted, died in 1835 and is buried at Christow. Arthur Marshall (1910–89) lived in Christow in later life, and fictionalised the village as "Appleton". The adventurers The Turner Twins (born 1988) grew up in Christow.
Amenities
Christow has a pub, the Artichoke Inn,[5] that was built in or before the 17th century.[6] The village has also a community primary school.[7] The village has also a Community Hall with tennis courts and a skate park. There is also a GPs' practice[8] and Gidley's Meadow, a small industrial estate.
