Ashwater

Ashwater

infobox UK place
country = England
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latitude= 50.73
longitude=-04.29
official_name =Ashwater
population =
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shire_county= Devon
metropolitan_borough=
metropolitan_county =
region=South West England
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postcode_district =
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os_grid_reference= SX3895

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).

External links

* [http://www.ashwaterparish.org.uk/ Parish website]

Referencess

*Mee, A. "The King's England: Devon" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1965), p. 24.


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