North Tawton 600 ft (185m) east-west by 390 ft (120m), and was located adjoining the Roman road between "Isca Dumnoniorum" (Exeter) and Okehampton. In addition, the site of a temporary marching camp has been identified half a mile to the north. By the time of the Domesday survey (1086), there were six farm / manor holdings in what is now North Tawton Parish, including that of Tawton which was the forerunner of the town we know today. St Peter's Church is first recorded in 1257. Only the tower of the present building dates from that time, with the rest being mostly 14th
Celtic language decline in England a "vicus", and others end in elements denoting Roman features, such as "-caster", denoting "castra" ('forts'). There is a substantial body of names along the lines of "Walton"/"Walcot"/"Walsall"/"Walsden", many of which must include the Old English word "wealh" in the sense 'Celtic-speaker', and "Comberton", many of which must include Old English "Cumbre" 'Britons'. These are likely to have been names for enclaves of Brittonic-speakers─but again are not that numerous. In the last decade, however, scholars have stressed that Welsh and Cornish place-names from the Roman period seem no more likely to survive than Roman names in England: 'clearly name loss