Tawstock
Tawstock is a village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon in the English county of Devon. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Barnstaple, Bishop's Tawton, Atherington, Yarnscombe, Horwood, Lovacott and Newton Tracey and Fremington.Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Chapelton railway station.
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.
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. Chapelton railway station is situated 2 miles southeast of Tawstock.
Tawstock Tower
Hotel
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Tawstock Tower is a folly building dating from the 18th-century that stands in the village of Tawstock in North Devon. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since February 1965.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barnstaple and Newton Tracey.
Barnstaple
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
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.
Newton Tracey
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newton Tracey is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Horwood, Lovacott and Newton Tracey, in the North Devon district of Devon, England, on the B3232 road about 4 miles south of Barnstaple. Newton Tracey is situated 2 miles southwest of Tawstock.
Alverdiscott
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alverdiscott is a village, civil parish, former manor and former ecclesiastical parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, centred 5.5 miles south-south-west of Barnstaple. Alverdiscott is situated 3 miles southwest of Tawstock.
Tawstock
- Type: Locality
- Location: North Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.0387° or 51° 2′ 19″ northLongitude
-4.0611° or 4° 3′ 40″ westElevation
305 feet (93 metres)Open location code
9C3Q2WQQ+FHGeoNames ID
7300276
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