Bishop’s Tawton

Bishop's Tawton is a village and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. It is in the valley of the River Taw, about three miles south of Barnstaple. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,176.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chapelton railway station and Church of St John the Baptist.

Chapelton railway station

Railway station

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Chapelton railway station serves the hamlet of Chapelton, part of the civil parish of Tawstock in the English county of Devon. It is a rural station on the Tarka Line to Barnstaple, 35 miles 52 chains from Exeter Central at milepost 207 from London Waterloo.

Church of St John the Baptist

Church

Photo: William Cooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Church of St John the Baptist is the Anglican parish church for the village of Bishop's Tawton in Devon. The church has been a Grade I listed building since 1965 and comes under the Diocese of Exeter.

Herner Chapel

Church

Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Herner Chapel is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barnstaple and Umberleigh.

Barnstaple

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Barnstaple is a town and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The town lies at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel.

Umberleigh

Village

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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 3½ miles southeast of Bishop’s Tawton.