Nymet Rowland | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Devon#UK |
Coordinates: | 50.859°N -3.83°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | England |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Devon |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Mid Devon |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | GST |
Utc Offset1: | +0:00 |
Nymet Rowland is a small village, and civil parish of the same name, in central Devon, England, north of Dartmoor. It takes part of its name from "Nymet", the old name for the nearby River Yeo.[1] It is located just to the west of Lapford and south of Nymet Bridge, within the Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Winkleigh Hundred; today the North Tawton hundred. It falls within the Cadbury Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes.[2]
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.
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]