Holsworthy
Holsworthy is a little English market community and civil church in the local government district of Torridge, Devon. The county town of Exeter is 36.4 miles (58.6 kilometres) to the eastern. The River Deer, a tributary of the River Tamar, creates the western limit of the parish, that 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 area of Devon. Neighbouring churches are, to the West, Pyworthy, and also Holsworthy Hamlets in various 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 town centre is about 140 metres (460 ft) over sea level and the highest point in the church has an elevation of 144 metres (472 feet). The river Deer, a tributary of the river Tamar, creates the western border of the parish. The bedrock geology of the church is entirely of Bude Formation. This kind of Sedimentary bedrock was created in the Carboniferous period. Every one of the parish is of Bude Development (sandstone) with the exception of a strip of Bude Formation (mudstone and siltstone), about 1,600 feet (490 m) vast, across the extreme north of the parish. The Bude Development develops part of the Holsworthy Group.
