Buckfastleigh
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Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district, in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway (A38) at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. For ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery. It is 18 miles (29 km) east-northeast of Plymouth, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Exeter and has a population of 3,661. It is a centre of tourism and is home to Buckfast Abbey, the South Devon Railway, the Buckfastleigh Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary, the Tomb of Squire Richard Cabell and The Valiant Soldier Museum Heritage & Visitor Centre. With 13 let
Key facts
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- Buckfastleigh - Hamlyn House - geograph.org.uk - 892810.jpg
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- 240
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- Hamlyn House
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.shire_county
- Devon
- UK place.shire_district
- Teignbridge
- UK place.civil_parish
- Buckfastleigh
- UK place.official_name
- Buckfastleigh
- UK place.population
- 3,326
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- (2011)
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- SX7366
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Central Devon
- UK place.post_town
- BUCKFASTLEIGH
- UK place.postcode_area
- TQ
- UK place.postcode_district
- TQ11
- UK place.dial_code
- 01364
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Brook manor house and Sherlock Holmes
- South Devon Railway Trust
- Climate
- Buckfast Abbey
- Buckfastleigh Rangers Football and Social Club
- Notable people
- Caves
- References
Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district, in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway (A38) at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. For ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery. It is 18 miles (29 km) east-northeast of Plymouth, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Exeter and has a population of 3,661. It is a centre of tourism and is home to Buckfast Abbey, the South Devon Railway, the Buckfastleigh Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary, the Tomb of Squire Richard Cabell and The Valiant Soldier Museum Heritage & Visitor Centre. With 13 letters, Buckfastleigh is one of the longest place names in England with no repeated letters, tied with Buslingthorpe, Leeds and Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, but exceeded by Bricklehampton in Worcestershire with 14 letters.
==Geography== Geographically, Buckfastleigh straddles the confluence of two small streams from Dartmoor which feed into the River Dart just to the east of the town. About one mile to the north lies Buckfast, home of Buckfast Abbey. To the northwest lie Holne and Scorriton on the southern breastwork of the Dartmoor upland. Pridhamsleigh Cavern is nearby and is neighboured by Ashburton and Lower Dean.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buckfastleigh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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