Kentisbury

Kentisbury
Devon
The Church of St Thomas
Location
Grid reference:	SX561993
Location:	50°46’33"N, 4°2’32"W
Data
Local Government
Council:	North Devon

Kentisbury is a village, within a wider parish of the same name, in the north of Devon, ten miles north-east of Barnstaple, at the edge of the Exmoor National Park.

The parish has no central 'hub' village but consists of three small hamlets; Patchole, Kentisbury Ford and Kentisbury, and its population at the 2001 census was recorded as just 266, increasing to 299 at the 2011 census.

Parish Church

The parish church is the Church of Saint Thomas, and the parish is part of the benefice of Shirwell.

Early history

There is evidence of an Iron Age enclosure on Kentisbury Down.

Kentisbury is mentioned in the Domesday Book, shown as Chentesberia.

About the hamlets

The nearest public house is the Old Station House Inn, which, as its name suggests, was opened in the Station House of the former Lynton & Barnstaple Railway following its closure in 1935. A project is in existence to re-open the railway as a tourist attraction.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Kentisbury)