Claim: Brownston, a hamlet in Devon, England and located within Modbury Parish, has a church dedicated to St John the Baptist (a Jewish itinerant preacher in the early 1st century AD).
Evidence: Brownston is a hamlet in Devon, England. It is located within Modbury Parish. Its church (dedicated to St John the Baptist) is now a private home and was built in 1844. John the Baptist (late 1st century BC – c. AD 30) was a Jewish itinerant preacher in the early 1st century AD.