North Tamerton Methodist Church - geograph

North Tamerton ( kw, Tre war Damer) 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 ...

in east

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, England, UK. The village is situated approximately eight miles (13 km) southeast of

Bude Bude (; kw, Porthbud) is a seaside town in north east Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet (also known locally as the River Strat). It was sometimes formerly known as Bude Haven.''Cornish ...

and eight miles (13 km) north of Launceston.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 ''Bude & Clovelly''

Geography

North Tamerton is a thinly populated rural parish and the only village is North Tamerton itself, the other settlements being farmsteads and hamlets. It came within the

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

, and later the registration district, of Stratton. It is bounded to the east by the

River Tamar The Tamar (; kw, Dowr Tamar) is a river in south west England, that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east) and Cornwall (to the west). A part of the Tamar Valley is a World Heritage Site due to its historic mining activities. T ...

which for much of its length delineates Cornwall's border with

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 ...

, but here Cornwall extends across the river making North Tamerton the only parish in Cornwall which includes land east of the Tamar.
GENUKI website; North Tamerton; retrieved May 2010 The name Tamerton derives from 'estate on the Tamar'. To the west, the parish is bounded by the Cornish parishes of Whitstone and

Week St Mary Week St Mary ( kw, Gwig Sen Maria) is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south of Bude close to the River Tamar and the border between Cornwall and Devon in the Hun ...

and population at the 2001 census was 288, increasing to 356 at the 2011 census. The village of North Tamerton on high ground above the confluence of the River Tamar and its tributary the River Deer. The

Bude Canal The Bude Canal was a canal built to serve the hilly hinterland in the Cornwall and Devon border territory in the United Kingdom, chiefly to bring lime-bearing sand for agricultural fertiliser. The Bude Canal system was one of the most unusual ...

ran through the parish and there was a canal wharf at North Tamerton. The canal was unusual in using six

inclined planes An inclined plane, also known as a ramp, is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle from the vertical direction, with one end higher than the other, used as an aid for raising or lowering a load. The inclined plane is one of the six clas ...

instead of

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to climb from sea level to its maximum altitude of : one of the six inclines was south of Tamerton wharf.

Parish Church

The 15th century church is dedicated to St Denis and is located at . The church has a chancel, nave, south aisle and a granite ashlar battlemented tower in height. The belfry houses a ring of six bells, and a local tradition says that the treble bell came from

Tetcott Tetcott is a civil parish, small settlement and former manor (once the home of the Arscotts of Tetcott) in Devon, England. The parish lies about five miles south of the town of Holsworthy and is bordered on the north by the parish of Clawton, ...

church, across the River Tamar, and John Taylor the bell-founder having recast North Tamerton's ring of five in the early 19th century sold the treble to Tetcott so that the parishioners at North Tamerton could hear it across the valley and decide to acquire it.

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