Moretonhampstead

Moretonhampstead
Town centre
Moretonhampstead is located in Devon
Moretonhampstead
Moretonhampstead
Location within Devon
Population1,703 [1]
OS grid referenceSX752860
• London215 miles (346 km)
Civil parish
  • Moretonhampstead
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWTON ABBOT
Postcode districtTQ13
Dialling code01647
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
Websitehttp://www.moretonhampstead.com/
List of places
UK
England
Devon
50°39′37″N 3°46′02″W / 50.6603°N 3.7671°W / 50.6603; -3.7671

Moretonhampstead is a market town,[a] parish and ancient manor in Devon, situated on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, within the Dartmoor National Park. The parish now includes the hamlet of Doccombe (/ˈdɒkəm/), and it is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Drewsteignton, Dunsford, Bridford, Bovey Tracey, Lustleigh, North Bovey and Chagford.[4]

At the 2011 census the population of the parish was 1,703,[1] and Moorland electoral ward, in which Moretonhampstead lies, had a population of 2,806.[5] The parish church is dedicated to St. Andrew.[6] Along with a few other places in Devon, it is one of the longest place names in England with 16 letters. Moretonhampstead is twinned with Betton in France.

  1. ^ a b "Moretonhampstead Parish". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Devon – Moretonhampstead". Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516. history.ac.uk. 18 June 2003. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Local Government Act 1972". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Map of Devon Parishes" (PDF). Devon County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  6. ^ Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Devon: Being Observations on Many Churches in Denonshire. George Oliver and John Pike Jones (editors), 1828, Exeter: E. Woolmer.


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