Luffincott is a
civil parish
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in the far west of
Devon
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, England. It forms part of the
local government district
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of
Torridge
Torridge may refer to:
* Torridge District
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and lies about six miles south of the town of
Holsworthy. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of
Tetcott,
Ashwater,
St Giles on the Heath and
Northcott. Its western border follows the
River Tamar
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which forms the county boundary with
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.
The
A388 road between Holsworthy and
Launceston runs just inside the eastern border of the parish. In 2001 its population was 45, down from 62 in 1901 and for
ecclesiastical purposes, it is united with Tetcott.
The name ''Luffincott'' has a variety of early forms, first appearing in documents as ''Leghygnecoth′'' in 1242 with variants such as ''Loghingecote'' (1285), ''Lughyngcote'' (1330), ''Loghynton que vocatur Loghyngecote'' (1346) and ''Luffencote'' (1577). Its derivation is ''cot'' (cottage or small settlement) of ''Luhha''′s people.
The
manor is believed to have been the origin of the "Lippingcott"
Devonshire gentry family (which later moved to Wibbery (mod:
Webbery) in the parish of
Alverdiscott), whose surname is a corruption of the name of this manor.
[''The Lippincotts in England and America, Edited from the Genealogical Papers of the Late James S. Lippincott'', Philadelphia, 1909, p.]
Lysons & Lysons, ''Magna Britannia'', Vol.6, ''Devon'', London, 1822, p.323, ''Luffincott/Luffingcott''
St James's Church, Luffincott is a Grade I
listed building
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, declared
redundant in 1975. It stands near to the farmyard of Luffincott Barton, a mid-19th-century farmhouse and out-buildings which were part of the
Tetcott estate. According to
Pevsner, Luffincott Barton is the only other building of interest in the parish.
References
Villages in Devon
Torridge District
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