#alwington

[goldsmithestates]

The Alwington tree at ALWINGTON, a parish in Bideford district, Devon; on the river Yeo, 4 miles SW by W of Bideford r. station. 

It contains the hamlets of Fairy-Cross, Ford, and Wood town; and its Post Town is Bideford.  

The Coffin family held the manor for nine centuries since the Conquest, and had a handsome residence on it called Portledge.  

The estate itself was sold in 1998, to Michael Cannon, pub entrepreneur and former owner of Fuddrucker's restaurant chain and is now owned by oil executive Tony Buckingham 

[devonrider]

The village of Alwington has a well known landmark nearby known as the Alwington tree. It is on the outskirts of the village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. 

The parish, referred to in the Doomsday book, is on the coast and includes the villages of Alwington, Fairy Cross, Ford and Knotty Corner. The parish has a total population of 381 (2001 census), increasing at the 2011 census to 400.

It’s somewhere I’ve cycled to and from a few times.