Nymet Rowland

Coordinates: 50°51′32″N 3°49′48″W / 50.859°N 3.830°W / 50.859; -3.830
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50°51′32″N 3°49′48″W / 50.859°N 3.830°W / 50.859; -3.830

Nymet Rowland Church

Nymet Rowland is a small village, and

Hundred; today the North Tawton hundred. It falls within the Cadbury Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes.[2]

Description

Nymet Rowland has a 15th-century church (St. Bartholomew). Traces of the 12th-century church remain in the S. doorway, and in the crude font.

History

Nymet Rowland achieved brief prominence in the 1870s as the home of the Cheritons (nicknamed by the media the "North Devon savages"), a farming family living under primitive conditions whose lifestyle caused national outrage.[3][4]

Notes and references

  1. ISBN 0-389-20933-3
  2. ^ Nymet Rowland Community Page, Devon Libraries Local Studies Service
  3. ISBN 978-1-113-11713-7 Google Books reprint
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  4. ^ A Tribe of English Savages, New York Times, November 11, 1871,

External links

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