Throwleigh
Throwleigh is a village and civil parish located 3 miles from Chagford and 6 miles from Okehampton, in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 321 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Devon, UK
- Also known as: “Throwleigh, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church, Gidleigh and Northmore Arms.
Holy Trinity Church, Gidleigh
Church
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Holy Trinity Church, Gidleigh dates from the late 15th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Gidleigh, Devon.
Spinsters’ Rock
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spinsters' Rock is a Neolithic dolmen near Drewsteignton in Devon. It is situated on Shilstone Farm west of the village. It is near the A382 road. The dolmen consists of three granite supports rising to between 1.7 and 2.3 metres surmounted by a capstone measuring 4.5 by 3.1 metres. Spinsters’ Rock is situated 2 miles east of Throwleigh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gidleigh and Whiddon Down.
Gidleigh
Hamlet
Photo: Johnragla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gidleigh is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England. Located within Dartmoor National Park, the parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Throwleigh, Chagford and Dartmoor Forest.
Whiddon Down
Village
Photo: Colin Pyle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whiddon Down is a hamlet within the parish of Drewsteignton in Devon. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 267. Whiddon Down is situated 1½ miles northeast of Throwleigh.
South Zeal
Village
Photo: pete kilgannon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Zeal is a village on Dartmoor, in Devon, United Kingdom. It has a Church of England chapel and a Methodist chapel. The church is situated in the smaller South Tawton village, down the road, for which the parish is named. South Zeal is situated 2 miles northwest of Throwleigh.
Throwleigh
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Throwleigh, West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.70128° or 50° 42′ 5″ northLongitude
-3.88725° or 3° 53′ 14″ westPopulation
321Elevation
801 feet (244 metres)Open location code
9C2RP427+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 302837279OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2635913Wikidata ID
Q1958118
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Throwleigh” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Throwleigh”
- Chinese: “Throwleigh”
- Dutch: “Throwleigh”
- French: “Throwleigh”
- Irish: “Throwleigh”
- Ladin: “Throwleigh”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Throwleigh”
- Polish: “Throwleigh”
- Swedish: “Throwleigh”
- Turkish: “Throwleigh”
- Welsh: “Throwleigh”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Throwleigh”. Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.