Holsworthy
Holsworthy is a little English market town as well as civil church in the local government area of Torridge, Devon. The county town of Exeter is 36.4 miles (58.6 km) to the eastern. The River Deer, a tributary of the River Tamar, develops the western boundary 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 area of Devon. Neighbouring parishes are, to the West, Pyworthy, and Holsworthy Hamlets in other directions. Holsworthy is 189.5 miles (305.0 kilometres) WSW of London and 36.4 miles (58.6 kilometres) WNW of the county town of Exeter. The community gets on the junction of the A388 as well as A3072 roads. The town centre is about 140 metres (460 feet) above water level and the acme in the church has an elevation of 144 metres (472 ft). The river Deer, a tributary of the river Tamar, forms the western boundary of the parish. The bedrock geology of the parish is totally of Bude Formation. This type of Sedimentary bedrock was formed in the Carboniferous period. Every one of the parish is of Bude Formation (sandstone) except for a strip of Bude Formation (mudstone and siltstone), regarding 1,600 feet (490 m) vast, throughout the severe north of the parish. The Bude Formation creates part of the Holsworthy Group.
