Otterham

Otterham
Cornwall
St Denis, Otterham
Location
Grid reference:	SX168907
Location:	50°41’13"N, 4°35’42"W
Data
Population:	228  (2001)
Post town:	Camelford
Postcode:	PL32
Dialling code:	01840
Local Government
Council:	Cornwall
Parliamentary constituency:	North Cornwall

Otterham is a village in northern Cornwall, approximately ten miles south of Bude and six miles north of Camelford.

The village is named after the River Ottery, which rises in the parish, and the village in turn gives its name to a scatter of hamlets, including Otterham Mill, Otterham Down and Otterham Station.

The parish is in the Lesnewth Hundred. At the 2001 census it had a recorded population of just 228. It is a very rural area with small hamlets and farmsteads spread fairly evenly across it.

Parish church

The parish church is dedicated to St Denis, in Otterham village. It has a 40 ft tower housing three bells. The church was built in the Norman period but was altered in 1889 when the north transept was demolished.

The church is grouped within the Boscastle group of parishes, within the Diocese of Truro.

Otterham Station

Otterham Station (50°40’30"N, 4°36’47"W, or SX154893) is a hamlet mile south-west of Otterham village.

Otterham Station is located at the junction of the A39 road ('the Atlantic Highway') and the B3262. The hamlet grew round the site of the former station on the North Cornwall Railway which closed in October 1966.

Hendraburnick Down (1,009 feet) is south of Otterham Station and there are a number of Bronze Age barrows (including Tich Barrow) on the Down. The source of the River Camel is also on Hendraburnick Down.

Outside links

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