Botusfleming
| Botusfleming | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church, Botusfleming | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX404614 |
| Location: | 50°25’48"N, 4°14’53"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 750 (2011, parish) |
| Post town: | Saltash |
| Postcode: | PL12 |
| Dialling code: | 01752 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South East Cornwall |
Botusfleming or Botus Fleming is a village in south-eastern Cornwall. The 2001 census gives the parish population as 783, which decreased to 750 at the 2011 census. The village is about three miles north-west of Saltash.
There is a public house (the Rising Sun), a market garden and a small colony of artists, but the village is mostly a dormitory area for Plymouth.
Parish church
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary and has a western tower and a fine arcade between the nave and the north aisle. The church was restored in 1872 by Henry Eliott; this restoration included new roofs, floors, pews and glazing. The font is of Polyphant stone, probably 14th century in date. In a field near the church is an obelisk in memory of William Martyn built in 1762.[1]
Other buildings
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- Moditonham House is the site of the mediæval castle of the Moditons and is now a large Georgian house which is a grade II* listed building incorporating fabric from the earlier building.[2][3] Michael Loam, a Cornish engineer who introduced the first man engine (a device to carry men up and down the shaft of a mine) into the United Kingdom died here.
- The Bidwell is a 20th-century restored 14th century constructed well (with a roof) on a main street in the village, with a 19th century statue of St Mary.[4]
- The Rising Sun pub was voted number 5 in Britain's Good Pub Guide 2009.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Botusfleming) |
References
- ↑ Beacham, Peter & Pevsner, Nikolaus (2014). Cornwall. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12668-6; p. 112
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 1951; 1970 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09589-0page 44-45
- ↑ Moditonham House, Botusfleming - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ National Heritage List 1137879: The Bidwell
