Heanton Punchardon (/ˈhɛntən/ /pʌnˈtʃɑːrdən/) is a village, civil parish and former manor, anciently part of Braunton Hundred.

[4] The parish church is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury, who brought Christianity to England.

An ornate Easter Sepulchre tomb in the chancel is to Richard Coffin (1456–1523), Sheriff of Devon in 1511.

Heanton Court, the former manor house of the Manor of Heanton Punchardon, is a grade II listed building[6] situated on the north shore-line of the River Taw estuary, about a mile south-east of the parish church.

Nearly opposite to it was a large track of marsh and sand..." He later made a copy of a painting by William Payne, c. 1790,[b][7] The house as painted by Swete in about 1797 is essentially as it survives today, retaining its battlements and corner towers.

Wrafton is a large hamlet narrowly separated by a small field from edge of the main local village centre, that of Braunton to the west.