Landcross
| Landcross | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 The Landcross Tunnel on the Tarka Trail | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SS460238 |
| Location: | 50°59’35"N, 4°11’44"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Torridge |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Torridge and West Devon |
Landcross is a hamlet in northern Devon, just south of the little town of Bideford. It has a civil parish named for it to (the smallest in Devon), which is bordered clockwise from the north by the parishes of Bideford, Weare Giffard, Monkleigh, and Littleham, its eastern border being formed by a meander of the River Torridge and the western by the River Yeo. In 2001 the parish population was just 70, compared to 58 in 1901.[1][2]
Parish church
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The parish church, Holy Trinity Church, is a small church with has ancient origins; it was rebuilt in 1435 but retains its Norman font.
The church also contains some finely carved early 16th-century bench-ends. General George Monck, the Parliamentary general who restored King Charles II to his father's fallen throne, lived at Great Potheridge in Merton parish to the south, and was baptised in this church in 1608.[3]
The tower of Holy Trinity was replaced by a turret after it was destroyed by a lightning strike in the 1820s.[4]
The Landcross Tunnel
Near to Pillmouth on the River Torridge was the entrance to the Rolle Canal, opened in 1827. An extension of the London and South Western Railway between Bideford and Great Torrington was opened in 1872, and the line which ran through the parish now forms part of the Tarka Trail of footpaths and cycle routes.[2]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ "Map of Devon Parishes". Devon County Council. http://www.devon.gov.uk/devon_districts_2002_.pdf. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harris, Helen (2004). A Handbook of Devon Parishes. Tiverton: Halsgrove. p. 100. ISBN 1-84114-314-6.
- ↑ Hoskins, W. G. (1972). A New Survey of England: Devon (New ed.). London: Collins. p. 422. ISBN 0-7153-5577-5.
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8