Woodbury (Devon)

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Woodbury
Woodbury
Woodbury
Coordinates 50 ° 41 ′  N , 3 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 3 ° 24 ′  W
OS National Grid SY011872
Woodbury (England)
Woodbury
Woodbury
Residents 1605 (2011)
administration
ZIP code section EX5
prefix 01395
Part of the country England
region South West England
Shire county Devon
District East Devon
Civil Parish Woodbury
British Parliament East Devon

Woodbury is a village and civil parish in East Devon in the English county of Devon . Woodbury is about eleven kilometers southeast of the city of Exeter . The Parish has 3466 inhabitants, the village itself 1605 inhabitants, both in the 2011 census .

geography

Located on the east bank of the River Exe estuary, the Parish has boundaries - clockwise, starting from the estuary - to Exeter (not far from Topsham ) and the parish of Clyst St George , Clyst St Mary , Farringdon , Colaton Raleigh , Bicton and Lympstone . Woodbury is part of the constituency Woodbury and Lympstone that counted 5,260 residents in the 2011 Census.

The village itself is seven kilometers north of central Exmouth on the B3179 road between Clyst St George and Budleigh Salterton . About three kilometers north is the east-west running A3052 road and about two kilometers west of the village runs along the estuary of the A376 road , which connects Exeter with Exmouth and runs through the parish of Parish. The small settlements of Ebford and Exton are on this road.

history

Woodbury Castle is an Iron Age castle complex located on Woodbury Common .

The former Manor of Nutwell was west of the village on the estuary and later belonged to a branch of the Drake family . The house now at Nutwell Court was built in 1810.

The railway line, which runs along the estuary and connects Exeter to Exmouth, opened in 1861. The route is now operated as the Avocet Line , and the closest station is in Exton.

The clergyman and botanist W. Keble Martin spent his retirement in Woodbury.

The village

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Swithun and dates from the early 15th century (consecrated in 1409). Her Perpendicular Style is mixed with older elements of the Decorated Style . The interesting elements of the building include the carved rood screen , the baptismal font from the 15th century, the Elizabethan altar surrounds, the Jacobin pulpit and a table grave from the 17th century for a man and his wife with a resting depiction in effigy .

Woodbury is related to Bretteville-sur-Odon in Normandy, France .

supporting documents

  1. ^ Office for National Statistics: Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: East Devon , accessed January 27, 2010.
  2. ^ Parish population 2011.
  3. ^ Map of Devon Parishes. ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.devon.gov.uk
  4. ^ Woodbury and Lympstone Ward 2011.
  5. ↑ OS Explorer card 110 and 115.
  6. ↑ a b c Helen Harris: A handbook of Devon parishes. A complete guide for local and family historians . Halsgrove, Tiverton, Devon 2004, ISBN 1-84114-314-6 , pp. 188 .
  7. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner: South Devon. (=  Buildings of England . BE5). Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex 1952, pp. 312–313 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
  8. ^ British Towns Twinned with French Towns.

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