Yarnscombe
Yarnscombe is a small village and parish in the Torridge area of Devon, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles from Great Torrington and 7 miles from Barnstaple. In the year 2001 census the population was recorded at 300.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 331 residents
- Description: village in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Yarnscombe, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parish Church of St Andrew and Chapelton railway station.
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 northeast of Yarnscombe.
Herner Chapel
Church
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herner Chapel is a church, which is situated 2½ miles northeast of Yarnscombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harracott and Alverdiscott.
Harracott
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harracott is a hamlet, which is situated 2 miles north of Yarnscombe.
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 west of Yarnscombe.
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 3 miles east of Yarnscombe.
Yarnscombe
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Yarnscombe, Torridge District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.99378° or 50° 59′ 38″ northLongitude
-4.05041° or 4° 3′ 2″ westPopulation
331Elevation
456 feet (139 metres)Open location code
9C2QXWVX+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 1611360949OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12265982Wikidata ID
Q1850099
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Yarnscombe” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yarnscombe”
- Chinese: “Yarnscombe”
- Dutch: “Yarnscombe”
- French: “Yarnscombe”
- Irish: “Yarnscombe”
- Ladin: “Yarnscombe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yarnscombe”
- Polish: “Yarnscombe”
- Swedish: “Yarnscombe”
- Turkish: “Yarnscombe”
- Welsh: “Yarnscombe”
- “Yarnscombe”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Yarnscombe Village Hall and Timbercleave Plantation.
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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 “Yarnscombe”. Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.