Place:Otterham, Cornwall, England

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NameOtterham
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates50.6878°N 4.5961°W
Located inCornwall, England
See alsoLesnewth Hundred, Cornwall, Englandhundred in which it was located
Camelford Rural, Cornwall, Englandrural district of which it was a part 1894-1974
Camelford Registration District, Cornwall, Englandregistration district of which it was part 1837-1995
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Otterham (Cornish: Prasdowrgi) is a village and a civil parish in the north of Cornwall, England. The village is situated approximately ten miles (16 km) south of Bude and six miles (10 km) north of Camelford.

Otterham Mill, Otterham Down and Otterham Station (see Wikipedia) are neighbouring settlements to Otterham village; all take the name from the River Ottery which rises in the parish.

The parish is in the Hundred of Lesnewth and Deanery of Trigg Major. Otterham parish is bounded to the north by the parish of St. Gennys, to the east by Warbstow, to the south by Davidstow and to the west by St. Juliot. The parish is rural with small hamlets and farmsteads spread fairly evenly across it; the population of the parish in the 2001 census was 228.

Otterham was part of the Camelford Rural District from 1894 until 1974.

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