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Hexworthy
HexworthyLocation within Devon
OS grid reference	SX655726
Civil parish	Dartmoor Forest
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
List of places UK England Devon 50°32′17″N 3°53′56″W / 50.538°N 3.899°W / 50.538; -3.899

Hexworthy /ˈhæksəri/ is a hamlet on Dartmoor, in Devon, England. It lies on the West Dart River a mile upstream from Dartmeet. Historically in the parish of Lydford, since 1987 it has been in the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest.

Hexworthy has an inn, the Forest Inn, opened in the 1850s.

Very close to the village, on the opposite bank of the West Dart, is the hamlet of Huccaby, which has a parish church with an unusual dedication to St Raphael.

There was a long history of tin mining near Hexworthy. Tin works in the valley of the O Brook were first recorded in 1240, and the Henroost or Hexworthy Mine did not close until 1919.

References

1. Mawer, A., Gover, J.E.B. and Stenton, F.M. Place-Names of Devon p.194
2. "Lydford in White's Devonshire Directory (1850) on Genuki". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
3. Forest Inn website
4. St. Raphael's Church website
5. Newman, P. (1996) Recording the Tinworks of Dartmoor Forest

External links

Media related to Hexworthy at Wikimedia Commons

• Villages in Devon
• Dartmoor