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 This
beautiful parish of North Hill is on the eastern side of Bodmin Moor
with rugged hills of Twelve Men's Moor on the horizon,
wooded slopes and farmland of the Lynher Valley.
The Withey Brook leaves the moor here, falling in cascades
through Castick Woods to join the
River
Lynher at Trebartha, and Tremollett Stream adds to the
growing river at Bathpool, where the waters are known to
overflow the banks and flood the hamlet, most recently
December 2008.
There are beef and sheep farms and some arable land
producing potatoes and maize, also specialist dairy farms.
Part of the parish on
the
Bodmin Moor side of the river falls
within Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty -
but how can a line be drawn in such a lovely area!
villages
 In
North Hill village is the parish church of
St Torney which dates
from around 1289, a large church which has many splendid
family monuments, a Norman font and a tower built from
regular granite blocks which houses six bells.
North Hill village hall was built just
after the second world war as a 'Victory Hall' and is the
venue for activities from art classes to table tennis.
The present day public house, the Racehorse Inn, was originally
the village school which was closed in 1961. In earlier
centuries was the Ring O'Bells and the
Rodd Arms.
In the
village of Coads Green is the thriving primary school. This was
originally the Methodist Chapel until a new chapel was built
on adjacent land. Coads Green Village Hall just across the
road is a centre for a host of social activities.
The
parish council meets monthly at the village halls
alternating between the two villages.
Smaller
settlements in the parish are the hamlets of Bathpool,
Congdon's Shop, Illand and Newtown.
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