Sheviock
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Location within Cornwall | |
Population | 646 (2011) |
OS grid reference | SX 369 551 |
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Unitary authority | |
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Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | TORPOINT |
Postcode district | PL11 |
Dialling code | 01503 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Cornwall |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Sheviock (Cornish: Seviek, meaning strawberry bed)[1] is a coastal civil parish and a hamlet in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is two miles (3 km) south of St Germans and three miles (5 km) south-west of Saltash.[2]
Sheviock parish is in the St Germans Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 683, which had decreased to 646 at the 2011 census.[3] To the north, the parish is bordered by St Germans Creek (the tidal estuary of the River Tiddy, a tributary of the Lynher River) and to the south by the sea[which?]. To the east, Sheviock is bordered by Antony parish and to the west by Deviock parish.