TAMERTON (NORTH), a parish in the hundred
of STRATTON, county of CORNWALL, 5 miles (S. S. W.)
from Holsworthy, containing 479 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall,
and diocese of Exeter, and in the alternate patronage
of P. Coffin, Esq., and Miss I'Ans. The church is
dedicated to St. Denis. The river Tamar and the Bude
canal run through the parish, in a parallel direction,
from north to south. There is a dilapidated chapel at
Hornacot, in this parish.