Hexworthy
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Hexworthy shown within Devon |
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| OS grid reference | SX655726 |
|---|---|
| Civil parish | Dartmoor Forest |
| Shire county | Devon |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
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Hexworthy /ˈhæksəri/[1] is a hamlet on Dartmoor, in Devon, England. It lies on the West Dart River a mile upstream from Dartmeet. Historically in the parish of Lydford,[2] since 1987 it has been in the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest.
Hexworthy has an inn, the Forest Inn, opened in the 1850s.[3]
Very close to the village, on the opposite bank of the West Dart, is the hamlet of Huccaby, which has a parish church with an unusual dedication to St Raphael.[4]
There was a long history of tin mining near Hexworthy. Tin works in the valley of the O Brook were first recorded in 1240, and the Henroost or Hexworthy Mine did not close until 1919.[5]
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- ↑ Mawer, A., Gover, J.E.B. and Stenton, F.M. Place-Names of Devon p.194
- ↑ Lydford in White's Devonshire Directory (1850) on Genuki
- ↑ Forest Inn website
- ↑ St. Raphael's Church website
- ↑ Newman, P. (1996) Recording the Tinworks of Dartmoor Forest
