Holsworthy is a little English market community and also civil parish in the local government area of Torridge, Devon. The county town of Exeter is 36.4 miles (58.6 km) to the east. The River Deer, a tributary of the River Tamar, creates the western boundary of the church, which includes the village of Brandis Corner. According to the 2011 census the population of Holsworthy was 2,641. Holsworthy is in the East of the Torridge district of Devon. Neighbouring parishes are, to the West, Pyworthy, and also Holsworthy Hamlets in other instructions. Holsworthy is 189.5 miles (305.0 kilometres) WSW of London and also 36.4 miles (58.6 km) WNW of the county town of Exeter. The town gets on the crossway of the A388 and also A3072 roads. The community centre is about 140 metres (460 feet) over water level and also the highest point in the parish has an altitude of 144 metres (472 ft). The river Deer, a tributary of the river Tamar, forms the western border of the parish. The bedrock geology of the parish is completely of Bude Formation. This sort of Sedimentary bedrock was created in the Carboniferous period. Every one of the church is of Bude Development (sandstone) with the exception of a strip of Bude Development (mudstone and siltstone), regarding 1,600 feet (490 m) broad, throughout the severe north of the parish. The Bude Formation creates part of the Holsworthy Group.