Hexworthy

Hexworthy
Hexworthy
	Hexworthy Location within Devon
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
	List of places UK England Devon 50°32′17″N 3°53′56″W / 50.538°N 3.899°W

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]

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". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
^ Forest Inn website
^ St. Raphael's Church website
^ Newman, P. (1996) Recording the Tinworks of Dartmoor Forest

External links

Media related to Hexworthy at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Mawer, A., Gover, J.E.B. and Stenton, F.M. Place-Names of Devon p.194

[2] "Lydford in White's Devonshire Directory (1850) on Genuki". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2009.

[3] Forest Inn website

[4] St. Raphael's Church website

[5] Newman, P. (1996) Recording the Tinworks of Dartmoor Forest

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