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Braunton is an English village, civil parish, ecclesiastical parish and former manor in North Devon. [1]

113 relations: Act of Parliament, Advowson, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Ash, Braunton, Æthelbald, King of Wessex, Baldwin FitzGilbert, Barnstaple, Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency), Barnstaple railway station, Bideford, Blowout (geomorphology), Board of Agriculture (1793–1822), Braunton Academy, Braunton Burrows, Braunton Canal, Braunton Hundred, Bristol Channel, Brynach, Celtic Britons, Chancel, Charles Vancouver, Charlotte Eliza Bousfield, Civil parish, Cleeve Abbey, Clergy house, Close Roll, Croyde, Daniel Lysons, Dean of Exeter, Demesne, Devon, Domesday Book, Dumnonia, Exeter Cathedral, Exmoor, Farm (revenue leasing), Feudal barony of Bampton, Feudal land tenure in England, Fief, Genisteae, Glastonbury Abbey, Gorges family, Graffiti, Heanton Punchardon, High Sheriff of Devon, Ilfracombe branch line, James Green (engineer), John Betjeman, John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, John Lambrick Vivian, ..., Knowle, Devon, Lancet window, Links (golf), List of Latinised names, List of the largest villages in England, Listed building, Lord of the manor, Lynmouth, Man and the Biosphere Programme, Manor, Manor of Orleigh, Manor of Powderham, Manor of Raleigh, Pilton, Marwood, Devon, Missionary, Monumental brass, Museum of British Surfing, Nicholas Hooper (1654–1731), Norman conquest of England, North Devon, North Devon Coast, North Devon's Biosphere Reserve, Oceanic climate, Old English, Palimpsest, Pilton, Devon, Plouescat, Points of the compass, Psammosere, Putsborough, Regnal year, Ribbon development, River Caen, River Taw, RM Chivenor, Samuel Lysons, Saunton, Saunton Sands, Seisin, Serjeanty, Shirwell, South Wales, South West Coast Path, South West England, Spanish Armada, Surfing, Tarka Line, Tarka Trail, Tawstock, Tristram Risdon, Tudor period, Umberleigh, United Kingdom census, 2001, United Kingdom census, 2011, Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, Watermouth Castle, Welsh people, Wharf, William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon, William Pole (antiquary), William the Conqueror, Woolacombe, Wraxall, Somerset. Expand index (63 more) »

Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Advowson

Advowson (or "patronage") is the right in English law of a patron (avowee) to present to the diocesan bishop (or in some cases the ordinary if not the same person) a nominee for appointment to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living, a process known as presentation (jus praesentandi, Latin: "the right of presenting").

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Ash, Braunton

Ash in the parish of Braunton in North Devon is a historic estate listed in the Domesday Book.

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Æthelbald, King of Wessex

Æthelbald, King of Wessex (Æþelbald meaning "Noble and Bold") was the second of the five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and Osburh.

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Baldwin FitzGilbert

Baldwin FitzGilbert (died 1090) (alias Baldwin the Sheriff, Baldwin of Exeter, Baldwin de Meulles/Moels and Baldwin du Sap) was a Norman magnate and one of the 52 Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.

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Barnstaple

Barnstaple is the main town of North Devon, England and possibly the oldest borough in the United Kingdom.

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Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency)

Barnstaple was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Barnstaple in Devon, in the South West of England.

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Barnstaple railway station

Barnstaple railway station is the northern terminus of the Tarka Line and serves the town of Barnstaple, Devon.

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Bideford

Bideford is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, south-west England.

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Blowout (geomorphology)

Blowouts are sandy depressions in a sand dune ecosystem (psammosere) caused by the removal of sediments by wind.

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Board of Agriculture (1793–1822)

The Board of Agriculture was a British voluntary association and chartered society founded in 1793 to promote agricultural improvement.

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Braunton Academy

Braunton Academy (formerly Braunton School and Community College) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status in Braunton, North Devon, England.

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Braunton Burrows

Braunton Burrows is a sand dune system on the North Devon coast.

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Braunton Canal

The Braunton Canal is a cut made to straighten the course of the upper section of the River Caen, known as Braunton Pill, and to provide a new quay for the village of Braunton in North Devon, England.

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Braunton Hundred

The hundred of Braunton was the name of one of thirty two ancient administrative units of Devon, England.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.

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Brynach

Saint Brynach was a 6th-century Welsh saint.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons, also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from the British Iron Age into the Middle Ages, at which point their culture and language diverged into the modern Welsh, Cornish and Bretons (among others).

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Charles Vancouver

Charles Vancouver (c. 1756 – c. 1815) was an Anglo-American agricultural writer.

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Charlotte Eliza Bousfield

Charlotte Eliza Bousfield (born Collins, 10 July 1828 - 20 September 1933) is best known as a diarist whose writing give an extensive insight into the world and values of a middle-class Victorian lady of staunch Methodist and temperance convictions.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Cleeve Abbey

Cleeve Abbey is a medieval monastery located near the village of Washford, in Somerset, England.

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Clergy house

A clergy house or rectory is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of religion.

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Close Roll

The Close Rolls are an administrative record created in medieval England by the royal chancery, in order to preserve a central record of all letters close issued by the chancery in the name of the Crown.

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Croyde

Croyde is a village on the west-facing coastline of North Devon, England.

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Daniel Lysons

Daniel Lysons (1762–1834) was an English antiquarian and topographer, who published amongst other works the four-volume Environs of London (1792–96).

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Dean of Exeter

The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England.

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Demesne

In the feudal system, the demesne was all the land which was retained by a lord of the manor for his own use and support, under his own management, as distinguished from land sub-enfeoffed by him to others as sub-tenants.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Dumnonia

Dumnonia is the Latinised name for the Brythonic kingdom in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries, in what is now the more westerly parts of South West England.

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Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England.

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Exmoor

Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England.

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Farm (revenue leasing)

Farming is a technique of financial management, namely the process of commuting (changing), by its assignment by legal contract to a third party, a future uncertain revenue stream into fixed and certain periodic rents, in consideration for which commutation a discount in value received is suffered.

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Feudal barony of Bampton

The feudal barony of Bampton was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed during the mediaeval era, and had its caput at Bampton Castle within the manor of Bampton.

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Feudal land tenure in England

Under the English feudal system several different forms of land tenure existed, each effectively a contract with differing rights and duties attached thereto.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty.

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Genisteae

Genisteae is a tribe of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae.

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Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England.

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Gorges family

The House of Gorges is an ancient English family with Norman origins.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural of graffito: "a graffito", but "these graffiti") are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted, typically illicitly, on a wall or other surface, often within public view.

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Heanton Punchardon

Heanton Punchardon is a village, civil parish and former manor, anciently part of Braunton Hundred.

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High Sheriff of Devon

The High Sheriff of Devon is the Queen's representative for the County of Devon, a territory known as his/her bailiwick.

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Ilfracombe branch line

The Ilfracombe branch of the London & South Western Railway (LSWR), ran between Barnstaple and Ilfracombe in North Devon.

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James Green (engineer)

James Green (1781–1849) was a noted civil engineer and canal engineer, who was particularly active in the South West of England, where he pioneered the building of tub boat canals, and inventive solutions for coping with hilly terrain, which included tub boat lifts and inclined planes.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

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John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath

John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath (20 July 1470 – 30 April 1539) was created Earl of Bath in 1536.

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John Lambrick Vivian

Lieutenant-Colonel John Lambrick Vivian (1830–1896) Inspector of Militia and Her Majesty's Superintendent of Police and Police Magistrate for St Kitts, West Indies, was a genealogist and historian who edited editions of the Heraldic Visitations of Devon and of Cornwall,Vivian, p. 763, pedigree of Vivian of Rosehill standard reference works for historians of these two counties.

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Knowle, Devon

Knowle is a village near Braunton located on the A361 road between Ilfracombe and Barnstaple in North Devon, England.

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Lancet window

A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a pointed arch at its top.

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Links (golf)

A links is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland.

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List of Latinised names

The Latinisation of names in the vernacular was a procedure deemed necessary for the sake of conformity by scribes and authors when incorporating references to such persons in Latin texts.

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List of the largest villages in England

Several places claim to be the largest village in England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Lord of the manor

In British or Irish history, the lordship of a manor is a lordship emanating from the feudal system of manorialism.

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Lynmouth

Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England, on the northern edge of Exmoor.

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Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific programme, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.

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Manor

A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

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Manor of Orleigh

Orleigh is a historic manor in the parish of Buckland Brewer, situated 4 miles to the south west of Bideford, North Devon, England.

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Manor of Powderham

Powderham is a former manor on the coast of south Devon, England, situated within the historic hundred of Exminster, about south of the city of Exeter and adjacent to the north-east of the village of Kenton.

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Manor of Raleigh, Pilton

The historic manor of Raleigh, near Barnstaple and in the parish of Pilton, North Devon, was the first recorded home in the 14th century of the influential Chichester family of Devon.

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Marwood, Devon

Marwood is a village in North Devon north of Barnstaple.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Monumental brass

Monumental brass is a species of engraved sepulchral memorial which in the early part of the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood.

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Museum of British Surfing

The Museum of British Surfing, in Braunton in the English county of Devon, contains exhibits relating to the history of surfing in the United Kingdom.

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Nicholas Hooper (1654–1731)

Sir Nicholas II Hooper (1654-1731) of Fullabrook, Braunton and Raleigh, Pilton in Devon, was a lawyer who served as Tory Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1695-1715.

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Norman conquest of England

The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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North Devon

North Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.

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North Devon Coast

The North Devon Coast was designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in September 1959.

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North Devon's Biosphere Reserve

North Devon's Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve in North Devon.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Palimpsest

In textual studies, a palimpsest is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document.

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Pilton, Devon

The ancient and historic village of Pilton is today a suburb within the town of Barnstaple, one of the oldest boroughs in England.

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Plouescat

Plouescat is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.

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Psammosere

A psammosere is a seral community, an ecological succession that began life on newly exposed coastal sand.

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Putsborough

Putsborough is a hamlet in Georgeham civil parish on the west-facing coast of North Devon, England.

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Regnal year

A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin regnum meaning kingdom, rule.

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Ribbon development

Ribbon development is building houses along the routes of communications radiating from a human settlement.

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River Caen

The River Caen is a short river running through Braunton in north Devon.

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River Taw

The River Taw rises at Taw Head, a spring on the central northern flanks of Dartmoor, crosses north Devon and close to the sea at the town of Barnstaple, formerly a significant port, empties into Bideford Bay in the Bristol Channel having formed a large estuary of wide meanders which at its western extreme is joined by the estuary of the Torridge.

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RM Chivenor

Royal Marines Base Chivenor is a British military base used primarily by 3 Commando Brigade.

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Samuel Lysons

Samuel Lysons FRS (1763 – June 1819) was an English antiquarian and engraver who, together with his elder brother Daniel Lysons (1762–1834), published several works on antiquarian topics.

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Saunton

Saunton is a village located approximately two miles from Braunton on the North Devon coast in the South West of England.

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Saunton Sands

Saunton Sands is a beach in the English village of Saunton on the North Devon coast near Braunton, popular as a longboard surfing location.

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Seisin

Seisin (or seizin) denotes the legal possession of a feudal fiefdom or fee, that is to say an estate in land.

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Serjeanty

Under feudalism in England during the medieval era, tenure by serjeanty was a form of tenure in return for some specified non-standard service, thus distinguishing it from knight-service.

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Shirwell

Shirwell is a village, civil parish and former manor in the local government district of North Devon, in the county of Devon, England.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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South West Coast Path

The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail.

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South West England

South West England is one of nine official regions of England.

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Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada (Grande y Felicísima Armada, literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in late May 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.

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Surfing

Surfing is a surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave, which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore.

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Tarka Line

The Tarka Line (named after the animal hero in Henry Williamson's book Tarka the Otter) is a railway line from Exeter to Barnstaple in Devon, England.

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Tarka Trail

The Tarka Trail is a series of footpaths and cyclepaths (rail trails) around north Devon, England that follow the route taken by the fictional Tarka the Otter in the book of that name.

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Tawstock

Tawstock is a village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon in the English county of Devon, England.

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Tristram Risdon

Tristram Risdon (c. 1580 – 1640) was an English antiquarian and topographer, and the author of Survey of the County of Devon.

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Tudor period

The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603 in England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period during the reign of Elizabeth I until 1603.

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Umberleigh

Umberleigh is a former large manor within the historic hundred of (North) Tawton, but today a small village in North Devon in England.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom

The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors.

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Watermouth Castle

Watermouth Castle is a building in Watermouth, near Ilfracombe, North Devon, England, designed by George Wightwick as a residence for the Bassett family in the mid-19th century and is not a true castle but a country house built to resemble one.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.

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Wharf

A wharf, quay (also), staith or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

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William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon

William "Kitty" Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (c. 1768 – 26 May 1835), was the only son of William Courtenay, de jure 8th Earl of Devon, 2nd Viscount Courtenay and his wife Frances Clack.

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William Pole (antiquary)

Sir William Pole (1561–1635) of Colcombe House in the parish of Colyton, of Southcote in the parish of Talaton and formerly of Shute House in the parish of Shute (adjoining Colcombe), both in Devon, was an English country gentleman and landowner, a colonial investor, Member of Parliament and, most notably, a historian and antiquarian of the County of Devon.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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Woolacombe

Woolacombe is a seaside resort on the coast of North Devon, England, which lies at the mouth of a valley (or 'combe') in the parish of Mortehoe.

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Wraxall, Somerset

Wraxall is a village in North Somerset, England west of Bristol.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunton

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