Ringmore is a village and a

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located on the coast of

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...

, England.The population taken at the 2011 census was 208.

History

Ringmore was first mentioned in the

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, in which it was referred to as "Reimore". Until 1908, there was a manor (or estate) located in Ringmore. Due to the absence of a lord in the manor, there are no official written records of the past of the village. The small sandy bay located at the coast was once Ringmore's "port". From here the boats departed that went fishing for

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and to rescue seafarers wrecked on the rocks near

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.http://www.ringmore.info/history.php
"Ringmore History". Ringmore Village website. Retrieved 11 - 5 - 2014.

Description

Ringmore is a village on the coast of Devon, England, at the head of a valley. From the village one can see Bigbury Bay and Aymore Cove. Within it are two 13th-century buildings, namely its Church of All Hallows and The Journey's End inn, previously known as The New Inn.http://www.ringmore.info/index.php
"Ringmore". Ringmore Village website. Retrieved 11 - 5 - 2014. The church of All Hallows is early English in style (13th-century); the tower with its spire is also of that date and stands to the south of the nave. The nave, chancel and two transepts have plain lancets without any tracery. Some of the windows have been renewed. The parish of Ringmore extends to and includes at its southern boundary the shoreline hamlet of

Challaborough Challaborough is a village and popular surfing beach in the District of South Hams on the south coast of Devon, England. The village is in the parish of Ringmore, though the eastern part of the small bay and beach lies in Bigbury parish. Th ...

and, to the north, a group of houses at

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. Most of its land is owned by the

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, and a large part of the village is designated as a Conservation Area. By common consent there is no street lighting and there is, from 2017, a mobile phone mast near the village (close to St Anne’s Chapel).

Location

Ringmore lies within the

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South Hams South Hams is a local government district on the south coast of Devon, England. Services divide between those provided by its own Council headquartered in Totnes, and those provided by Devon County Council headquartered in the city of Exeter ...

, wedged between

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to the west and

Bigbury Bigbury is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 582, compared to 260 in 1901, and decreasing to 500 in 2011. The southern side of the parish lies on ...

to the east. On the south it borders the sea.

Notes

References

Ringmore.info
the village's website. {{coord, 50.298, -3.894, type:city_region:GB, display=title Villages in South Hams Civil parishes in South Hams