Ashwater
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| Ashwater | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St Peter's church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX3895 |
| Location: | 50°44’4"N, 4°17’20"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Beaworthy |
| Postcode: | EX21 |
| Dialling code: | 01409 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Torridge |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Torridge and West Devon |
Ashwater is a village in western Devon; a place of 673 souls according to the 2011 census.
The village is on a slope of a valley above the little River Carey, and just three miles east of the River Tamar which forms the border of Cornwall. It is about ten miles north of Launceston in the latter county.
The church is thirteenth century, with fifteenth-century windows, with an arcade that mixes the two periods. The decorated font is Norman, and described by Mee as "a great treasure".[1]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ashwater) |
- Ashwater Parish
- Ashwater in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ Mee, A. (1965). The King's England: Devon. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 24.