Morwenstow

Morwenstow
Morwenstow is located in Cornwall
Morwenstow
Morwenstow
Location within Cornwall
Civil parish
  • Morwenstow
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
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Cornwall
50°54′32″N 4°33′11″W / 50.909°N 4.553°W / 50.909; -4.553

Morwenstow (Cornish: Logmorwenna)[1] is a civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish abuts the west coast, about six miles (10 km) north of Bude[2] and within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Morwenstow is the most northerly parish in Cornwall.[3] As well as the churchtown (a hamlet called Crosstown), other settlements in the parish include Shop, Woodford, Gooseham, Eastcott, Woolley and West Youlstone. The population at the 2011 census was 791.[4] Morwenstow parish is bounded to the north and east by parishes in Devon, to the south by Kilkhampton parish and to the west by the Atlantic.[5] The River Tamar has its source at a spring on Woolley Moor,[6] at 50°55′25″N 4°27′44″W / 50.9235°N 4.4622°W / 50.9235; -4.4622, which is in the parish near the border with Devon.

Morwenstow is the one-time home of the eccentric vicar and poet Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), the writer of Cornwall's anthem Trelawny. Hawker is also credited with reviving the custom of Harvest Festivals.

  1. ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 Bude & Clovelly ISBN 978-0-319-23145-6
  3. ^ AA Book of British Villages. Drive Publications Limited. 1980. p. 288. ISBN 9780340254875.
  4. ^ "2011 Census. Retrieved Feb 2015".
  5. ^ [1] GENUKI website; Morwenstow; retrieved April 2010
  6. ^ Neale, John. Discovering the River Tamar. Amberley. 2010.