Avonwick
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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 old word for village, but it was not so named until the 1870s, previously being known as Newhouse.
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It is catalogued under the topic Villages in South Hams.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- North Huish
- Image
- St James Church, Avonwick - geograph.org.uk - 1067227.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01364
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- Avonwick
- OS grid reference
- SX715584
- P8168
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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 old word for village, but it was not so named until the 1870s, previously being known as Newhouse.
Avonwick has about 120 houses in the main village and has rapidly grown in size over the last few years, with three developments adding 17 houses in the late 1990s, 7 houses in 2000 and 33 houses in 2012.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avonwick” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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