The Parish
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Ashwater is a rural parish in North-West Devon, a few miles South East of Holsworthy. It is covered by Torridge District Council, and is in the Hundred of Black Torrington and the Deanery of Holsworthy . As well as the village itself, the parish includes several hamlets, such as Henford, Quoditch and part of Ashmill, which lies directly on the boundary between Ashwater and Broadwoodwidger parishes.
The GENUKI website has a map showing all the parishes of North-West devon here, which shows that Ashwater borders on twelve other parishes. For the historically-minded, they also have a map of Ashwater parish from 1850, which is available here
There is an entry for Ashwater in the Devon County Council Gazetteer (click here).
Ashwater Parish is also home to the Quoditch Moor Nature Reserve, which has its own website (click here).
Ashwater Station used to be on the stretch of the North Cornwall Railway from Halwill to Padstow, but the line closed in 1967. Public Transport in the parish is now much more limited.
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Last modified: Monday November 06, 2006