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Alverdiscott
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Alverdiscott (pronounced Alscott, or ) is a village, civil parish, former manor and former ecclesiastical parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, centred south-south-west of Barnstaple. Besides the small village of Alverdiscott, other settlements in the parish include the hamlets of Stony Cross and Woodtown, both to the west. Part of the village nucleus is known as Alscott Barton. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 283.
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Place details
- Locality
- Torridge
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Alverdiscott
- UK place.static_image_name
- All Saints church, Alverdiscott (geograph 3512777).jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- All Saints Church is medieval with later additions.
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 9.57
- UK place.population
- 283
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SS520253
- UK place.civil_parish
- Alverdiscott
- UK place.shire_district
- Torridge
- UK place.shire_county
- Devon
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- BARNSTAPLE
- UK place.postcode_area
- EX
- UK place.postcode_district
- EX31
- UK place.dial_code
- 01271
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Torridge and Tavistock
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Alverdiscott (pronounced Alscott, or ) is a village, civil parish, former manor and former ecclesiastical parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, centred south-south-west of Barnstaple. Besides the small village of Alverdiscott, other settlements in the parish include the hamlets of Stony Cross and Woodtown, both to the west. Part of the village nucleus is known as Alscott Barton. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 283.
==History== A scheduled monument is associated with the place, a Roman marching camp fort in the west of the area, on a former Iron Age enclosure. The church is built of granite with sloped slate roofs over the main body (nave) and squatter extension to the nave. It has an archetypal Norman font, Norman doorway, tall tower and sixteenth-century pulpit, and is a Grade II* listed building.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alverdiscott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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