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Hexworthy

Hamlet in Devon, England

Field	Value
country	England
region	South West England
shire_county	Devon
civil_parish	Dartmoor Forest
official_name	Hexworthy
os_grid_reference	SX655726
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The bridge across the West Dart at Hexworthy.

Hexworthy 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, since 1987 it has been in the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest.

Hexworthy has an inn, the Forest Inn, opened in the 1850s.

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.

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.

References

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".
[https://forestinndartmoor.co.uk/ Forest Inn website]
[http://www.straphaelhuccaby.org/ St. Raphael's Church website]
[http://www.pdmhs.com/PDFs/ScannedBulletinArticles/Bulletin%2013-2%20-%20Recording%20he%20Tinworks%20of%20Dartmoor%20Forest.pdf Newman, P. (1996) ''Recording the Tinworks of Dartmoor Forest'']

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