Bere Ferrers

Bere Ferrers

Bere Ferrers leading down to the River Tavy
Bere Ferrers
Bere Ferrers shown within Devon
Population 2,989 (2011)
OS grid reference SX4563
Civil parish
  • Bere Ferrers
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town YELVERTON
Postcode district PL20
Dialling code 01822
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Devon and Somerset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Bere Ferrers, sometimes called Beerferris, is a village and civil parish on the Bere peninsula in West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is located to the north of Plymouth, on the west bank of the River Tavy. It has a railway station on the Tamar Valley Line.

The civil parish includes the whole of the Bere peninsula, including the village of Bere Alston and the smaller settlements of Tuckermarsh, Rumleigh, Buttspill, Braunder, Cotts, Hewton, Weir Quay, Clamoak, Gnatham and Collytown. In 2001 the parish had a population of 3,066;[1] this had decreased to 2,989 in 2011.[2]

Parish church

Sources

  • Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890, pp. 1–36, Willoughby de Broke

See also

References

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : West Devon Retrieved 29 January 2010
  2. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
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