Lawhitton Rural

This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Lawhitton Rural is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:

Coordinates: 50°37′01″N 4°19′34″W / 50.617, -4.326

Lawhitton is a small village and civil parish in east Cornwall, United Kingdom.

The parish of Lawhitton is in the Launceston registration district. It is a comparatively small parish and Lawhitton village is the principal settlement. The county border with Devon forms the parish's eastern boundary. To the north, it is bounded by St Thomas by Launceston parish, to the west by Launceston St Mary's parish and to the south by Lezant parish. The population of the parish in the 2001 census was 270.

The village of Lawhitton is 3 miles (5 kilometres) south-east of Launceston and half-a-mile from the county border with Devon which follows the River Tamar. The parish church of St Michael is in Lawhitton village at OS Grid Ref SX355825: it is of various periods of English Gothic architecture. One of the important road crossings of the Tamar is 2.5 km from the village at Greystone Bridge: the arched stone bridge was built in 1439.

Wikipedia content modification information:

  • This page was last modified on 22 December 2008, at 00:03.

Wikipedia Authorship and Review

Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.

Wikipedia Usage Guidelines

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Lawhitton Rural".

The URL for this specific entry is:

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.