Holsworthy
Holsworthy is a little English market community and civil parish 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, 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 area of Devon. Neighbouring churches are, to the West, Pyworthy, and Holsworthy Hamlets in other directions. Holsworthy is 189.5 miles (305.0 km) WSW of London as well as 36.4 miles (58.6 kilometres) WNW of the county town of Exeter. The town is on the junction of the A388 as well as A3072 roads. The community centre has to do with 140 metres (460 ft) above water level and also the highest point in the parish has an altitude of 144 metres (472 feet). The river Deer, a tributary of the river Tamar, creates the western limit of the church. The bedrock geology of the parish is totally of Bude Formation. This type of Sedimentary bedrock was created in the Carboniferous period. All of the parish is of Bude Development (sandstone) except for a strip of Bude Formation (mudstone as well as siltstone), concerning 1,600 feet (490 m) wide, throughout the severe north of the parish. The Bude Formation develops part of the Holsworthy Group.
