North Hill ( kw, Bre Gledh) is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

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, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the east side of the

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approximately six miles (10 km) southwest of Launceston. North Hill is a large rural parish on the eastern flank of

Bodmin Moor Bodmin Moor ( kw, Goon Brenn) is a granite moorland in north-eastern Cornwall, England. It is in size, and dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history. It includes Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall, and Rough Tor, a s ...

bisected northwest to southeast by the River Lynher. It is bounded in the north by

Lewannick Lewannick (; kw, Lannwenek) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles (8 km) southwest of Launceston. The civil parish had a population of 973 at the 2011 census. ...

parish, on the east by

Lezant Lezant ( kw, Lannsant) is a civil parish and village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Lezant village is about five miles (8 kilometres) south of Launceston. The population of the parish in the 2001 census was 751, increasing slightly t ...

and

Linkinhorne Linkinhorne (in Cornish ''Lanngynhorn'') is a civil parish and village in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village itself is situated at and is approximately four miles (6.5 km) northwest of Callington and seven miles (1 ...

parishes, on the south by

St Cleer St Cleer ( kw, Ryskarasek) is a civil parish and village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the southeast flank of Bodmin Moor approximately two miles (3 km) north of Liskeard. The population of the par ...

and on the west by

Altarnun Altarnun ( ; kw, Alternonn) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located west of Launceston on the north-eastern edge of Bodmin Moor at . The parish of Altarnun includes the village of Fivelanes and the ha ...

.
GENUKI website; North Hill; retrieved April 2010 Settlements include the Churchtown, Cornwall, church town of North Hill and

Coad's Green Coad's Green (or Coads Green) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located on the B3257 in a rural area to the east of Bodmin Moor, about from the nearest town of Launceston. It is within the parish of North Hill,. It has a prima ...

, Bathpool, Congdon's Shop, Kingbeare, Middlewood, Illand or Yeiland, and Trebartha. The Trebartha estate is one of four farms mentioned in

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Trewortha Farm, a children's

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venue, incorporates a reconstruction of a Bronze Age settlement as well as a medieval village of the same name. The medieval village was excavated by the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould. Beresford, Maurice (1983). ''Lost Villages of England''; p. 415; citing J.R.I.C. vol. xi (1892) North Hill

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is in the Deanery and Hundred of East. The parish church is dedicated to St Torney whose Holy Well is situated by the River Lynher. The church has a chancel (

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in the 19th century), nave, and north and south aisles. The granite ashlar tower has three stages, is buttressed topped with battlements. The belfry contains six bells. There were also Wesleyan Methodist chapels at North Hill, Coads Green, and Bathpool and

Bible Christian The Bible Christian Church was a Methodist denomination founded by William O’Bryan, a Wesleyan Methodist local preacher, on 18 October 1815 in North Cornwall. The first society, consisting of just 22 members, met at Lake Farm in Shebbear, ...

chapels at Middlewood and Congdon's Shop.

References

External links

North Hill Local History Group
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