Noss Mayo
| Noss Mayo | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Noss Mayo and the Swan Inn | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX546476 |
| Location: | 50°18’39"N, 4°2’35"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | PL8 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Hams |
Noss Mayo is a quiet, waterside village in south-western Devon, about six miles south-east of Plymouth but a world away in temperament. The population was recorded as 510 in 1991.
The village stands on the southern shore of Newton Creek, an arm of the estuary of the River Yealm, opposite Newton Ferrers, a larger village on the north shore. The two villages were included in the top 20 prettiest towns and villages in Devon in a list compiled by readers of "Visit Devon".[1]
Noss Mayo is about a mile inland but the tidal creek opens to the mouth of the Yealm which in turn opens into the English Channel.
The first documentary reference of Noss Mayo was in 1286 as Nesse Matheu. The manor here was held by Matheu son of John from 1284 to 1309.[2] Noss Mayo was given by King Edward II in 1287 to Mathew Fitzjohn of the manor of 'Stok'.
The village's church, dedicated to St Peter, was built in 1882 by Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (head of the family firm of Barings Bank) to a design by James Piers St Aubyn.[3] It took over from the Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman in Revelstoke a vanished village on the coast just over a mile to the south. The latter church was built in 1226,[4]
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References
- ↑ "Devon’s prettiest towns and villages: your top 20". http://blog.visitdevon.co.uk/devon-towns-villages-prettiest/. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- ↑ Watts, Victor (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8page 606
- ↑ "A Brief History of Newton & Noss". Newton Ferrers & Noss Mayo. http://www.newtonnoss.co.uk/history.asp. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
