Ashwater
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| Ashwater | |
  Ashwater shown within Devon |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| Shire county | Devon |
| Region | South West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| European Parliament | South West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Devon | |
Ashwater is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 651. It is close by the Cornish border, and is about 10 miles north of Launceston.
The church is thirteenth century, with fifteenth-century windows, with an arcade that mixes thes two periods. The decorated font is Norman, described as "a great treasure" in Mee (1965)
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- Mee, A. The King's England: Devon. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1965), p.24.
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