Chavassery
village in Kannur District, Kerala, India
Chavassery is a small town in Irrity Municipality in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. The village hold a place in state history due to an arson of a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus here in January 1970 by Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers that claimed four lives and gravely injured ten passengers.
Demographics
As of 2011 India census, Chavassery had a population of 22480 with 10902 males and 11578 females. Chavassery is the part of Keezur-Chaavssery Grama Panchayath extending from Palottupalli to Keezur.
Transportation
Chavassery is the main town between Mattanur and Iritty.
There are three bus stops in Chavassery: Chavassery Old Post Office, Chavassery Town, and Chavassery School Stop.
Mainly two roads start from Chavassery: Chavassery-Naduvanad road and Chavassery-Veliyambra Road. The national highway passes through Kannur town. Goa and Mumbai can be accessed on the northern side, and Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram can be accessed on the southern side. The road to the east of Iritty connects to Mysore and Bangalore.
The public source identifies “Chavassery” as village in Kannur District, Kerala, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chavassery, village and Kannur.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5088479. Authority coordinates are 11.965, 75.618. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 2011.
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