This name brings to mind the former significance of the two villages, as home to an important railway junction, where the North Cornwall Railway (forming part of a main line railway from Exeter to Plymouth) diverged from the earlier Okehampton to Bude Line, see Halwill Junction railway station. Portions for the two routes separated and rejoined at Halwill station, giving the villages a much better service than larger habitations in the area.
There is a football pitch in Halwill as well as a newsagents, fish and chip shop and other shops. The local football team play on the football pitch.
↑Grehan, John (2016). The First Vcs: The Stories Behind the First Victoria Crosses in the Crimean War and the Definition of Courage. Havertown: Frontline Books. pp.81–82. ISBN9781473851719.
