Ashwater

Ashwater
St Peter's church
Ashwater Ashwater shown within Devon
OS grid reference	SX3895
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

Coordinates: 50°44′N 4°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. 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).

References

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

External links

Media related to Ashwater at Wikimedia Commons
Ashwater in the Domesday Book

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