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Once called Antony-in-East, Antony St Jacob, and East Antony, the parish is now just called 'Antony'.
It is situated in the Hundred and deanery of East, and is separated from the town of Devonport by
the River Tamar. It is bounded on the north by the River Lynher and St German creek, east by
the Hamoaze (a section of the River Tamar), south-east by St John's Lake, south by the parish of St John and Whitesand Bay, and on
the west by Sheviock.
The parish is named after the saint and possibly Anta's Farm, and was mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086. The village is situated in the South East corner of Cornwall to the immediate West of the River Tamar. It is called Antone in the Domesday Book of 1086. Antony is in the Caradon district near to the mouth of the River Tamar. The new parish of Torpoint lies in the south-east corner of the older Antony parish. The area is mainly farmland to the West and the town of Torpoint lies in the east of the parish, and Torpoint parish was created from Antony in 1819. There are two forts in the parish, Scraesdon Fort and Tregantle Fort, the latter is currently used as a base camp for the adjacent military firing range.
Torpoint is a small town situated on the Rame peninsular on the banks of the river Tamar some two and a half miles from Plymouth. It is the deanery and Hundred of East. It was created from part of Antony parish in 1819. The Carew-Pole family lived here in Antony House.
The parish is situated on the Rame peninsula on the south-east coast of Cornwall. Its history has been closely linked with the ferry service to Devonport and Plymouth which began in the 18th century. In 1700 Torpoint did not exist but, with the building of the naval dockyard at Devonport, it grew rapidly, with workers there choosing to live across the river near the ferry. In 1939 the naval shore establishment of H.M.S. Raleigh was established here; its purpose was to provide training for new entrants to the Royal Navy. It is still very much a Naval town with families coming and going.