Holsworthy is a tiny English market town as well as civil church in the city government district of Torridge, Devon. The county town of Exeter is 36.4 miles (58.6 kilometres) to the east. The River Deer, a tributary of the River Tamar, develops the western limit of the parish, that includes the town of Brandis Corner. According to the 2011 census the population of Holsworthy was 2,641. Holsworthy remains in the East of the Torridge district of Devon. Neighbouring churches are, to the West, Pyworthy, and Holsworthy Hamlets in various other instructions. Holsworthy is 189.5 miles (305.0 kilometres) WSW of London and 36.4 miles (58.6 km) WNW of the county town of Exeter. The town is on the intersection of the A388 as well as A3072 roads. The town centre is about 140 metres (460 ft) over sea level and also the acme in the church has an altitude of 144 metres (472 feet). The river Deer, a tributary of the river Tamar, creates the western boundary of the parish. The bedrock geology of the parish is completely of Bude Formation. This sort of Sedimentary bedrock was formed in the Carboniferous period. Every one of the parish is of Bude Formation (sandstone) besides a strip of Bude Development (mudstone and also siltstone), concerning 1,600 feet (490 m) vast, across the severe north of the parish. The Bude Development creates part of the Holsworthy Group.