Ashwater
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Coordinates: 50°44′N 4°17′W / 50.73°N 4.29°W
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 Ashwater
Ashwater shown within Devon |
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| OS grid reference | SX3895 |
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| District | Torridge |
| Shire county | Devon |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BEAWORTHY |
| Postcode district | EX21 |
| Dialling code | 01409 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Torridge and West Devon |
| List of places: UK • England • Devon | |
Ashwater is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 651. It is close by the Cornish border, and is about 10 miles north of Launceston.
The church is thirteenth century, with fifteenth-century windows, with an arcade that mixes the two periods. The decorated font is Norman, described as "a great treasure" in Mee (1965).
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[edit] References
- Mee, A. The King's England: Devon (Hodder and Stoughton, 1965), p. 24.
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