Roborough
Roborough is a village and civil parish 5.5 mi from Great Torrington, in Devon, England. Situated topographically on the plateau between the Torridge and Taw Rivers, the parish covers 1,258 ha and contains a population of some 258 parishioners.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 294 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in the district of Torridge, Devon in the England, UK
- Also known as: “Roborough, Devon” and “Roborough, Torridge”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Saint Peter and Eaglescott.
Eaglescott
Aerodrome
Photo: John Maynard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eaglescott Airfield is located in Burrington, 6 nautical miles east southeast of Great Torrington, in Devon, England. It is also the northern operating base of the Devon Air Ambulance. Eaglescott is situated 1½ miles east of Roborough.
Church of Saint George and All Saints
Church
Photo: William Cooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of Saint George and All Saints is situated 2 miles southwest of Roborough.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Riddlecombe and St Giles in the Wood.
Riddlecombe
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashreigney is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, about 15 miles south of the town of Barnstaple. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 446, compared to 540 in 1901. Riddlecombe is situated 3 miles southeast of Roborough.
St Giles in the Wood
Village
Photo: Bernice, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Giles in the Wood is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. The village lies about 2.5 miles east of the town of Great Torrington, and the parish, which had a population of 566 in 2001 compared with 623 in 1901… St Giles in the Wood is situated 3 miles northwest of Roborough.
Umberleigh
Village
Photo: Lobsterthermidor, Public domain.
Umberleigh is a former large manor within the historic hundred of Tawton, but today a small village in North Devon in England. It used to be an ecclesiastical parish, but following the building of the church at Atherington it became a part of that parish. Umberleigh is situated 4½ miles northeast of Roborough.
Roborough
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Roborough, Torridge District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.93541° or 50° 56′ 8″ northLongitude
-4.02667° or 4° 1′ 36″ westPopulation
294Elevation
482 feet (147 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RBHOpen location code
9C2QWXPF+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 1605563505OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Roborough” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Робороугх”
- Cebuano: “Roborough”
- Chinese: “Roborough”
- Dutch: “Roborough”
- French: “Roborough (Torridge)”
- French: “Roborough”
- Irish: “Roborough”
- Italian: “Roborough”
- Ladin: “Roborough”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Roborough”
- Persian: “روبورو، توریج”
- Polish: “Roborough”
- Swedish: “Roborough”
- Turkish: “Roborough, Torridge”
- Welsh: “Roborough”
- “Roborough”
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Highlights include Ye Olde Inn and Owlacombe Wood.
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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 “Roborough”. Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.