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Cockington

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Cockington is a village in Torquay in the English county of Devon. [1]

29 relations: Agatha Christie, Anglo-Saxons, Brewery, Building, Cary family, Cricket, Deer park (England), Devon, Edwin Lutyens, Estate (land), Exeter, George Carey (c. 1541–1616), Handicraft, Hillfort, History of Torquay, Iron Age, James VI and I, Robert Cary (priest), Robert fitz Martin, Robert Sweet (botanist), Silversmith, Terraced house, Torbay, Torbay (UK Parliament constituency), Torquay, Watermill, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, William de Falaise, Workshop.

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Brewery

A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.

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Building

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.

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Cary family

The Cary family (also Carey) is an English aristocratic family with a branch in Ireland.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Deer park (England)

In medieval and Early Modern England, a deer park was an enclosed area containing deer.

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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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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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Estate (land)

Historically, an estate comprises the houses, outbuildings, supporting farmland, and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property, such as a country house or mansion.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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George Carey (c. 1541–1616)

Sir George Cary (c. 1541 – 15 February 1616), of Cockington in the parish of Tor Mohun in Devon, was an English administrator and Member of Parliament who held various offices in Ireland.

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Handicraft

A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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History of Torquay

The History of Torquay, a town in Torbay, on the south coast of the county of Devon, England, starts some 450,000 years ago with early human artefacts found in Kents Cavern.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Robert Cary (priest)

Robert Cary (1615?–1688) was an English churchman, for a short while archdeacon of Exeter, known as a chronologist.

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Robert fitz Martin

Robert fitz Martin (10?? – c. 1159) was a Norman knight from the west of England who supported Henry I in his campaigns in Wales.

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Robert Sweet (botanist)

Robert Sweet (1783–20 January 1835) was an English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist.

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Silversmith

A silversmith is a craftsman who crafts objects from silver.

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Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.

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Torbay

Torbay is a borough in Devon, England, administered by the unitary authority of Torbay Council.

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Torbay (UK Parliament constituency)

Torbay is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kevin Foster, a Conservative.

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Torquay

Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.

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Watermill

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.

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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in September 1934 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1935 under the title of The Boomerang Clue.

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William de Falaise

William de Falaise (11th century), also called William of Falaise, was a Norman from Falaise, Duchy of Normandy, today in the Calvados department in the Lower Normandy region of north-western France.

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Workshop

Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.

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References

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

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