Morwenstow
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Morwenstow () is a civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish abuts the west coast, about six miles (10 km) north of Bude and within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
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Place details
- Locality
- Morwenstow
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cornwall
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.map_type
- Cornwall
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Morwenna, Morwenstow.jpg
- UK place.official_name
- Morwenstow
- UK place.cornish_name
- Logmorwenn
- UK place.civil_parish
- Morwenstow
- UK place.unitary_england
- Cornwall
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North Cornwall
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Cornwall
- Population
- 791
- Elevation
- 121
- Image
- Cattle and Church - geograph.org.uk - 1907364.jpg
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- Morwenstow
- OS grid reference
- SS208150
- historic county
- Cornwall
- P8168
- Mountain cuscus
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Parish church
- History and description
- Cornish wrestling
- Literary associations
- Notable people
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Morwenstow () is a civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish abuts the west coast, about six miles (10 km) north of Bude and within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Morwenstow is the most northerly parish in Cornwall. As well as the churchtown (a hamlet called Crosstown), other settlements in the parish include Shop, Woodford, Gooseham, Eastcott, Woolley and West Youlstone. The population at the 2011 census was 791. Morwenstow parish is bounded to the north and east by parishes in Devon, to the south by Kilkhampton parish and to the west by the Atlantic. The River Tamar has its source at a spring on Woolley Moor, at , which is in the parish near the border with Devon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morwenstow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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