Bere Ferrers, sometimes called Beerferris, is a village and civil parish on the Bere peninsula in West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is located to the north of Plymouth, on the west bank of the River Tavy. It has a railway station on the Tamar Valley Line.
The civil parish includes the whole of the Bere peninsula, including the village of Bere Alston and the smaller settlements of Tuckermarsh, Rumleigh, Buttspill, Braunder, Cotts, Hewton, Weir Quay, Clamoak, Gnatham and Collytown. In 2001 the parish had a population of 3,066;Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : West Devon Retrieved 29 January 2010 this had decreased to 2,989 in 2011.
Parish church
Sources Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890, pp. 1–36, Willoughby de Broke
See also Bere Ferrers rail accident Exeter to Plymouth railway of the LSWR
References
External links
1999 Parish appraisal GENUKI page