Peter Tavy
| Peter Tavy | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Peter Tavy | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX513776 |
| Location: | 50°34’47"N, 4°6’2"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Tavistock |
| Postcode: | PL19 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Devon |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Torridge and West Devon |
Peter Tavy is a village in Devon, 3 miles northeast of Tavistock. It takes its name from the River Tavy, which runs close to the village and separates the parishes of Peter Tavy and Mary Tavy, the latter a mile or two to the south across the valley. The village is not on the Tavy but the pretty Hartford Bridge outside the village crosses it.
Peter Tavy is on Dartmoor, close to the boundary of the national park.
The parish church, St Peter's, is largely built of granite and has a buttressed west tower.
Near Peter Tavy Moor is the grave of George Stephens (d. 1763) marked by a granite post. It is said he died after losing the prospect of marriage to Mary Bray, a farmer's daughter.[1] Stephens died by his own hand and so was buried outside of the parish boundary, as was the custom with suicides. Village tales say that his ghost still haunts the nearby moor.
At Willsworthy, above the village, is a former manor house and a chapel which has beem converted into a house.[2]
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