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Nymet Rowland is a small village, and civil parish of the same name, in central Devon, England, north of Dartmoor. It takes part of its name from "Nymet", the old name for the nearby River Yeo. It is located just to the west of Lapford and south of Nymet Bridge, within the Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Winkleigh Hundred; today the North Tawton hundred. It falls within the Cadbury Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes.
Description
Nymet Rowland has a 15th-century church (St. Bartholomew). Traces of the 12th-century church remain in the S. doorway, and in the crude font.
History
Nymet Rowland achieved brief prominence in the 1870s as the home of the Cheritons (nicknamed by the media the "North Devon savages"), a farming family living under primitive conditions whose lifestyle caused national outrage.
Notes and references
External links
Media related to Nymet Rowland at Wikimedia Commons
Nymet Rowland community page
Genealogical research information about Nymet Rowland
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Nymet Rowland
- Lapford Yeo
- Bow, Devon
- List of places in Devon
- North Tawton and Winkleigh Hundred
- Deanery of Cadbury
- Christow
- Crediton Rural District
- Margaret Partridge
- Grade II* listed buildings in Mid Devon
