Lesnewth

Also known as Lesnewth, Cornwall, Lesnewth CP, Lesnewth civil parish

__NOTOC__ Lesnewth () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about six miles east of Tintagel Head and two miles east of Boscastle.

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Place details

Locality: Lesnewth
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 0

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Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.map_type: Cornwall
UK place.static_image: File:River_Valency_valley._-_geograph.org.uk_-_846884.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Typical South-West England complex hedgerows patterns in part of the rolling Valency valley in the civil parish.
UK place.official_name: Lesnewth
UK place.cornish_name: Lysnowydh
UK place.population: 60
UK place.population_ref: (Civil Parish, 2001)
UK place.civil_parish: Lesnewth
UK place.unitary_england: Cornwall
UK place.lieutenancy_england: Cornwall
UK place.region: South West England
UK place.constituency_westminster: North Cornwall
UK place.post_town: BOSCASTLE
UK place.postcode_district: PL35
UK place.postcode_area: PL
UK place.dial_code: 01840
UK place.os_grid_reference: SX131903

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Wikidata facts

Population: 77
Image: Lesnewth, churchyard cross - geograph.org.uk - 49231.jpg
Dialing code: 01840

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Commons category: Lesnewth
postal code: PL35
OS grid reference: SX131903
P8168: Tavoleto

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__NOTOC__ Lesnewth () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about six miles east of Tintagel Head and two miles east of Boscastle.

The parish is bounded on the north by St Juliot (where the 2011 census population is included.), on the east by St Juliot and Davidstow, on the south by Davidstow, and on the west by Minster, Cornwall. It is a small sparsely populated parish set in farmland with only a few houses, farms and a church. Lesnewth manor is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, as Lisniwen. Lesnewth was also the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall: see Lesnewth (hundred).