Ashwater is a village and
civil parish in the
Torridge
Torridge may refer to:
* Torridge District, a local government district in the county of Devon, England
* River Torridge, is a river in Devon in England
* Torridge Lass
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district of
Devon, England.
According to the 2001 census it had a population of 651 that had risen to 673 by the
2011 census. It is close to 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 the two periods. The decorated
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Norman
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Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
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, described by Mee as "a great treasure". The former rectory is a Grade II listed building.
References
External links
Parish website*
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Villages in Devon
Torridge District
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