Tremaine, Cornwall

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]

Not to be confused with Tremayne, Cornwall.

Tremaine
Tremaine
Location within Cornwall
Population53 (Civil Parish, 2011)
OS grid referenceSX237889
Civil parish
  • Tremaine
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLAUNCESTON
Postcode districtPL15
Dialling code01566
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

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.

See also
  • 3806 Tremaine, an asteroid

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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