North Huish is a village,

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, former ecclesiastical

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and former manor in the

South Hams South Hams is a local government district on the south coast of Devon, England. Services divide between those provided by its own Council headquartered in Totnes, and those provided by Devon County Council headquartered in the city of Exete ...

district of Devon, England. The village is situated about south-west of the town of

Totnes Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about west of Paignton, about west-southwest of Torquay and abo ...

Avonwick Avonwick is a village in the civil parish of North Huish, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England. The River Avon runs through the settlement and the village's name derives from ''avon'' meaning ''river'', and ''wick'' an ol ...

is the largest village in the parish, Avonwick was only named that in 1870 and parts were previously part of different parishes until the late 20th century. The parish had a population of 360 in the 2001 census.

St Mary's Church

St Mary's Church, the parish church built in the 14th century, is now a

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in the care of the

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. It was declared redundant on 1 March 1993, and was

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in the Trust on 10 August 1998.

Manor

During the reign of King

Richard I Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was ...

(1189-1199) the manor was held by John Damarell ( Latinized to ''de Albamara''), whose male descendants held it for many generations. It then passed to the Trenchard family and thence to Tremain (''alias'' Tremayn) of

Collacombe Collacombe is an historic manor in the parish of Lamerton, Devon, England. The manor house survives as a grade I listed building, known as Collacombe Barton or Collacombe Manor (House). Descent d'Aumale The Domesday Book of 1086 lists ''COLECOM ...

Historic estates

Within the parish are situated various historic estates including: *Norreys, a seat of the le Norreys family until the reign of King Edward III (1327-1377), when the heiress married Sir John Fortescue (fl.1422) of Shepham, Captain of the captured Castle of Meaux, north-east of

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, following the

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during the Hundred Years' War. *Boterford. *Black Hall, a seat of a junior branch of the Fowell family of nearby

Fowelscombe Fowelscombe is a historic manor in the parish of UgboroughRisdon, p.179 in Devon, England. The large ancient manor house known as Fowelscombe House survives only as an ivy-covered "romantic ruin" Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, Lo ...

Polwhele, Richard, ''History of Devonshire'', 3 Vols., London, 1793, Vol.3, p.460 in the parish of

Ugborough Ugborough () is a village and civil parish in South Hams in the English county of Devon. It lies south of Dartmoor, from the A38 road, near to the town of Ivybridge. The parish, which had a population of 1,884 in 2011, includes a number of se ...

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{{Devon parishes Villages in South Hams Civil parishes in South Hams