Tresmeer
Tresmeer
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 Tresmeer Church | |
  Tresmeer Location withinCornwall | |
| Population | 271 (Civil Parish, 2011) |
| OS grid reference | SX234875 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LAUNCESTON |
| Postcode district | PL15 |
| Dialling code | 01566 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Tresmeer(sometimes spelledTresmere) (Cornish:Trewasmeur) is a hamlet and acivil parishin northeastCornwall,England, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated approximately seven miles (11 km) northwest of Launceston.[1]
The civil parish is bounded to the north byTreneglosandTremaineparishes, to the east byEgloskerry,and to the west byTreneglosparish. The population of Tresmeer parish in the 2001 census was 216, increasing to 271 at the 2011 census.[2]
Tresmeer is in the Registration District ofLaunceston.The parish church of St Nicholas is in the churchtown atOS Grid Ref SX233874.
Tresmeer was served by a railway station at the hamlet of Splatt on theNorth Cornwall Railwayline until closure of the route in 1966.
There is a Cornish cross in the churchyard. According to Arthur Langdon it was formerly in the churchyard ofLaneast.He observed it in the 1890s placed at the head of the grave of a late vicar of Tresmeer.[3]
References
[edit]- ^Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190Bude & ClovellyISBN978-0-319-23145-6
- ^"Parish population 2011".Retrieved15 February2015.
- ^Langdon, A. G. (1896)Old Cornish Crosses.Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 209-10
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