Dunkeswell | |
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The gatehouse at Dunkeswell Abbey | |
Location within Devon | |
Population | 1,361 (2011) |
OS grid reference | ST1407 |
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District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | HONITON |
Postcode district | EX14 |
Dialling code | 01404 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Devon and Somerset |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Dunkeswell is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England, located about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the town of Honiton. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,553,[1] reducing to 1,361 at the 2011 Census.[2] There is an electoral ward with the same name whose population at the above census was 2,000.[3] The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Hemyock, Luppitt, Combe Raleigh, Awliscombe, Broadhembury and Sheldon.[4]