Cookbury is a village and
civil parish
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in the
local government district of
Torridge,
Devon
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, England. The parish, which lies about five miles east of the town of
Holsworthy, is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of
Thornbury Thornbury may refer to:
Places
;Australia
*Thornbury, Victoria
* Thornbury railway station, Melbourne
;Canada
* Thornbury, Ontario
;England
*Thornbury, Devon
* Thornbury, Herefordshire
*Thornbury, Gloucestershire
**Thornbury Castle
**Thornbury (UK ...
,
Bradford,
Ashwater,
Hollacombe, and
Holsworthy Hamlets
Holsworthy Hamlets is a civil parish in the northwest of Devon, England. It forms part of the local government district of Torridge and came into being on 1 April 1900 when the ecclesiastical parish of Holsworthy was split into two.
The par ...
. In 2001 its population was 158, little changed from the 146 residents it had in 1901.
The parish church has an unusual dedication to St John the Baptist and the
Seven Maccabees and still has its 13th-century tower and
chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
...
. It was designated as
redundant in 1982, but classed as a
chapel-of-ease
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.
Often a chapel of ease is deliberately b ...
in 1987 and restored in 1992, united with the neighbouring parish of
Bradford.
, Bishop of Exeter from 1307 until his death in 1326, was born in the parish at Stapledon, now a farmhouse but once the mansion of the family.
The U.K.
national cycle route 3 passes through Cookbury linking the
Tarka Trail with
Bude
Bude (; kw, Porthbud) is a seaside town in north east Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet (also known locally as the River Strat). It was sometimes formerly known as Bude Haven.''Corni ...
on the North Cornwall coast.
Within the parish of
Bradford & Cookbury are National Trust
Dunsland
Dunsland is a historic manor and former house in the parish of Bradford (or Cookbury) near Holsworthy in Devon, England. It was successively home to the Arscott, Bickford, Coham and Dickinson families and, although the ownership records are i ...
(featuring a
SSSI
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle o ...
) and a Forestry Commission woodland at
Bramble Wood.
References
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Villages in Devon
Torridge District
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