Northcott
Northcott is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Black Torrington Hundred. The population was 71 in 1801 115 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.
A parish history file is held in Holsworthy Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database.
Maps: The image below is of the Northcott area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.
On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 74/10 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 74SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX336923. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX39SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 112, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 190. Geological sheet 323 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
NORTHCOTT is a hamlet of the Cornish parish of Boyton, across the Tamar, but is constituted as a separate civil parish in Devon.
