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Ashwater
Location within Devon
OS grid reference SX3895
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BEAWORTHY
Postcode district EX21
Dialling code 01409
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50°44′N4°17′W / 50.73°N 04.29°W / 50.73; -04.29

Ashwater is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. [1] [2] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 651 that had risen to 673 by the 2011 census. [3] [4] It is close to the Cornish border, and is about 10 miles north of Launceston. [1]

The church is thirteenth century, with fifteenth-century windows, with an arcade that mixes the two periods. The decorated font is Norman, described by Mee as "a great treasure". [5] The former rectory is a Grade II listed building. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 Bude & Clovelly (Boscastle & Holsworthy) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN   9780319231456.
  2. ↑ "Ashwater - Introduction". www.ashwaterparish.org.uk. Atwater Parish Council. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Key Statistics for 2001 Census: Ashwater (Parish)". www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Key Statistics for 2011 Census: Ashwater (Parish)". www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Mee, A. (1965). The King's England: Devon. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 24.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "THE OLD RECTORY INCLUDING GARDEN WALL ADJOINING AT REAR (1317694)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 31 December 2018.



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