Bere Ferrers

DistrictShire countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townYELVERTONPostcode districtPL20Dialling code01822PoliceDevon and CornwallFireDevon and SomersetAmbulanceSouth Western UK Parliament 50°27′04″N 4°10′37″W / 50.451°N 4.177°W / 50.451; -4.177

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

• Bere Ferrers rail accident
• Exeter to Plymouth railway of the LSWR

References

External links

• 1999 Parish appraisal
• GENUKI page