Nymet Rowland
| Nymet Rowland | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 The parish church, Nymet Rowland | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SS712082 |
| Location: | 50°51’32"N, 3°49’48"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | EX17 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Mid Devon |
Nymet Rowland is a small village, and parish of the same name, in central Devon, north of Dartmoor. It takes part of its name from "Nymet", the old name for the nearby River Yeo.[1]
The village is to be found just to the west of Lapford and south of Nymet Bridge, within the North Tawton hundred.
Parish church
Nymet Rowland has a 15th-century church; St Bartholomew. It has traces of the 12th-century church which preceded the current building remaining in the south doorway, and in the crude font.
History
Nymet Rowland achieved brief prominence in the 1870s as the home of the Cheritons (nicknamed by the newspapers as the "North Devon savages"), a farming family living under primitive conditions whose lifestyle caused national outrage.[2][3]
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References
- ↑ Reed, Michael A.: 'The landscape of Britain: from the beginnings to 1914' (1990) ISBN 0-389-20933-3
- ↑ The North Devon savages, 'In Strange Company: Being the Experiences of a Roving Correspondent': James Greenwood, 1874, ISBN 978-1-113-11713-7
- ↑ A Tribe of English Savages, New York Times, November 11, 1871