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Tavistock (/ ˈ t æ v ɪ s t ɒ k / TAV ... about 500 metres north of Bedford Square at Kilworthy Park. There was a small police station under part of the Bedford ...
[5] Many current national parks had been previously protected as national monuments by the president under the Antiquities Act or as other designations created by Congress before being redesignated by Congress; the newest national park is New River Gorge, previously a National River, and the most recent entirely new park is National Park of ...
It is located about 2 miles south of Tavistock on the A386 at the southwestern edge of Dartmoor National Park. Grenofen was mentioned as Grenefenne in 1238 in the Assize Rolls for Devon. [ 1 ]
Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, South West England.The moorland and surrounding land has been protected by National Park status since 1951. Dartmoor National Park covers 954 km 2 (368 sq mi).
Brent Tor is a tor on the western edge of Dartmoor, approximately four miles (6.5 km) north of Tavistock, rising to 1100 ft (330m) above sea level.The Tor is surmounted by the Church of St Michael, the parish church of the village of Brentor, which lies below the Tor.
He was born on 21 January 1940 at the Ritz Hotel in London, the son and heir apparent of John Ian Robert Russell, Lord Howland (1917–2002) (from August 1940 Marquess of Tavistock and from 1953 13th Duke of Bedford), by his first wife Clare Gwendolyn Bridgman (1903–1945), who died of an overdose of sedatives, [2] formerly the wife of Major Kenneth Chamney Walpole Hollway, MC.
Princetown is a village [a] located within Dartmoor national park in the English county of Devon.It is the principal settlement of the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest.At the 2021 census, the village had a population of 1,443.
West Devon is a local government district with borough status in Devon, England.Its council is based in Tavistock, the borough's largest town.The borough also includes the towns of Hatherleigh, North Tawton and Okehampton, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.