Tremaine, Cornwall

Tremaine
Cornish: Tremen
Tremaine
 Tremaine shown within Cornwall
Population 53 (Civil Parish, 2011)
OS grid referenceSX237889
Civil parishTremaine
Unitary authorityCornwall
Ceremonial countyCornwall
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town LAUNCESTON
Postcode district PL15
Dialling code 01566
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentNorth Cornwall
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Coordinates: 50°40′23″N 4°29′49″W / 50.673°N 4.497°W / 50.673; -4.497

Tremaine or Tremain (Cornish: Tremen)[1] is a small village and a rural civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the Registration District of Launceston and the population in the 2001 census was 87. It had decreased to 53 at the 2011 census.[2]

The parish is bounded to the north by Warbstow and Jacobstow parishes, to the east by North Petherwin parish, and to the west by Tresmeer and Treneglos parishes.

Tremaine village is 10 miles (16 km) north-west of the town of Launceston near the River Ottery. The parish church, St Winwallo's, stands in the village at OS Grid Ref SX234890. It is a Norman building but some of the windows are later insertions, the font is Norman.

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References

  1. Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. 2011 Census Note ONS raw data (as opposed to this County Council figure) is for an area 'too small to publish all data for reasons of confidentiality of living people' its parish data being combined with Treneglos into output area E00095798 so more demographic statistics will become available in a few decades from 2011

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