Holsworthy
Holsworthy is a little English market town and also civil church in the local 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, creates the western limit 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 area of Devon. Neighbouring churches are, to the West, Pyworthy, as well as Holsworthy Hamlets in 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 crossway of the A388 as well as A3072 roads. The community centre is about 140 metres (460 ft) over water level and the acme in the church has an altitude of 144 metres (472 ft). The river Deer, a tributary of the river Tamar, forms the western limit of the church. The bedrock geology of the parish is totally of Bude Formation. This kind of Sedimentary bedrock was formed in the Carboniferous duration. All of the parish is of Bude Formation (sandstone) except for a strip of Bude Formation (mudstone and siltstone), concerning 1,600 feet (490 m) wide, throughout the severe north of the parish. The Bude Formation forms part of the Holsworthy Group.