Forda

Forda is a hamlet in the county of Devon, in England’s South West, identified by the postcode district PL16. As a small named place within the county, it shares its wider landscape with long-established settlements and parish history. One such place in Devon’s past is Marystow, also known as Stow-St. Mary, which was recorded as a village and parish in the Tavistock district. Together these names speak to the layered geography and parish traditions of Devon: Forda’s straightforward postal identity, and Marystow’s historic parish status in Tavistock. For the curious traveller or local reader, these brief notes offer a starting point — a prompt to look deeper into maps, parish records and local stories to discover how hamlets like Forda sit within the county’s patchwork of places and parishes.