LOXHORE PARISH

Introduction

Loxhore parish a former manor is in the local government district of North Devon in England. It lies about five miles north-east of the town of Barnstaple and is surrounded clockwise from the north by Arlington, Bratton Fleming and Shirwell. In 2021 its population was 156, down from the 202 residents it had in 1901. The parish church of St Michael was built in the 15th century and restored in several stages from before 1844 to c.1900. Despite the restoration it retains several notable features; its screen, two pillars of the north arcade which are of oak instead of the usual stone, a decorated 16th-century font cover, and monuments to the Hammond family.Other notable features in the parish are Roborough Castle, Cunnilear Camp (an Iron Age hill fort), a small motte on a hill and the house of Hill which has late medieval origins. The Manor of Loxhore was once owned by the de Meulles and Beaumont families whose main seat was at Youlston Park in the adjacent Shirwell parish.

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