Bow
Bow is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England, about 8 miles west of Crediton. According to the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,120, which was slightly more than the 1,095 recorded at the 2011 Census.Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,100 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Devon, UK
- Also known as: “Bow, Devon” and “Nymet Tracey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include White Hart Hotel and Church of St Bartholomew.
Church of St Petrock
Church
Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Petrock is situated 1½ miles east of Bow.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coleford and Penstone.
Coleford
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coleford is a small hamlet in Mid-Devon, England. It includes a pub, The New Inn with their resident parrot of over 40 years Captain, and also has a park. Coleford is situated 3 miles east of Bow.
Penstone
Hamlet
Penstone is a hamlet of some 21 houses in Devon, England, about 1 mile from the villages of Colebrooke and Coleford, close to the point where the Exeter-Barnstaple and former Exeter-Okehampton rail lines diverge; the latter is now a freight line but there has… Penstone is situated 3½ miles east of Bow.
Weeke
Hamlet
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Weeke is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ miles northeast of Bow.
Bow
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Bow, Mid Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.80106° or 50° 48′ 4″ northLongitude
-3.81501° or 3° 48′ 54″ westPopulation
1,100Elevation
417 feet (127 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BWQOpen location code
9C2RR52M+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 31716262OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Bow” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bow”
- Chinese: “Bow”
- Dutch: “Bow”
- French: “Bow”
- Irish: “Bow”
- Italian: “Bow”
- Ladin: “Bow”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bow (Devon)”
- Polish: “Bow”
- Spanish: “Bow (Devon)”
- Spanish: “Bow”
- Swedish: “Bow, Mid Devon”
- Swedish: “Bow”
- Urdu: “بو، ڈیون”
- Welsh: “Bow, Dyfnaint”
- Welsh: “Bow”
- “Bow”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Church Room and Bow Village Hall.
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