Parracombe
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.3|St Petrock's Church, Parracombe|St Petrock's Church Parracombe is a rural settlement south-west of Lynton, in Devon, England. It is situated in the Heddon Valley, on Exmoor. The population at the 2011 census was 293.
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- North Devon
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thumb|upright=1.3|St Petrock's Church, Parracombe|St Petrock's Church Parracombe is a rural settlement south-west of Lynton, in Devon, England. It is situated in the Heddon Valley, on Exmoor. The population at the 2011 census was 293.
A number of Bronze Age barrows exist nearby, along with several other small earthworks throughout the parish. Beacon Castle and Voley Castle, both Iron Age Hill forts, are situated nearby. Rowley Barton ("rough clearing") was a manor mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, along with East and West Middleton.