Definition & Meaning | English word HALWILL

Definitions of HALWILL

1. A village in Torridge, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4299).

Examples of Using HALWILL in a Sentence

• In 2018, Tommy Boy also acquired Amherst Records, Harlem Music, and Halwill Music, which hold masters and publishing rights for a diverse collection of '70s Soul, Disco, and Jazz artists including The Stylistics, Van McCoy, and Glenn Medeiros.
• The North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway was a railway built to serve numerous ball clay pits that lay in the space between the London and South Western Railway's Torrington branch, an extension of the North Devon Railway group, and Halwill, an important rural junction on the North Cornwall Railway and its Okehampton to Bude Line.
• Halwill is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district, in Devon, England just off the A3079 Okehampton to Holsworthy road.
• The line onward led into several main line branches: to Barnstaple and Bideford (and later Ilfracombe); to Halwill and Holsworthy, with Halwill itself becoming a junction later; and to Plymouth, reached at first over part of the route of the rival broad gauge interest.
• The section was opened as part of a plan by the County Council to extend the Tarka Trail to Hatherleigh, from where the Ruby Way will continue to Halwill Junction and then on to Holsworthy and Bude.
• Ashbury railway station was located on the Okehampton–Bude line 3¾ miles east of Halwill Junction, and served the hamlet of Ashbury and the village of Northlew in the English county of Devon.
• The former Camelford railway station was on the ex-LSWR North Cornwall line which ran from Halwill to Wadebridge and Padstow.

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