Avonwick is a village in the civil parish of

North Huish North Huish is a village, civil parish, former ecclesiastical parish and former manor in the South Hams district of Devon, England. The village is situated about south-west of the town of Totnes. Avonwick is the largest village in the parish, A ...

, in the South Hams district, in the county of

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...

, England. The River Avon runs through the settlement and the village's name derives from ''avon'' meaning ''river'', and ''wick'' an old word for ''village'',St James' Church Avonwick on the Society of Cornishes website
/ref> but it was not so named until the 1870s, previously being known as Newhouse. Avonwick has about 120 houses in the main village and has rapidly grown in size over the last few years, with three developments adding 17 houses in the late 1990s, 7 houses in 2000 and 33 houses in 2012. The village church, dedicated to St James in 1878, is one of only a few

proprietary chapel A proprietary chapel is a chapel that originally belonged to a private person, but with the intention that it would be open to the public, rather than restricted (as with private chapels in the stricter sense) to members of a family or household, o ...

s remaining in the country. The village also has a pub, one of the oldest lawn tennis clubs in the world/ Avon Vale Tennis and Croquet Club
and a garage, with a further restaurant on the road to

South Brent South Brent is a large village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the small hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and many scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8&n ...

.The Turtley Corn Mill
/ref> The village had a succession of shops from 1871, but the last village shop closed in 2018. The village has one of the oldest walkways in Devon: known as the Cobbly Way or Cobbly Walk, the cobbled track alongside the river shows traces of ancient cart ruts over its 400-yard length.

Avonwick railway station Avonwick railway station is a closed railway station situated in the village of Avonwick in Devon, England. It was the first station on the Kingsbridge branch line. History The station opened on the 19 December 1893 when the Great Western Rai ...

opened about outside the village in 1893, on the branchline between South Brent and

Kingsbridge Kingsbridge is a market town and tourist hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards bear the name of ''Kingsbridge'' (East & North). Their combined population at the abo ...

. The station and line closed in 1963.

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