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Branscombe is a village in the East Devon district of the English County of Devon. The parish covers 3,440 acres (1,390 ha). Its permanent population in 2009 was estimated at 513 by the Family Health Services Authority, reducing to 507 at the 2011 Census.
Branscombe Church. St Winifred's Church is a Church of England church in Branscombe in Devon, England.The church is dedicated to Saint Winifred, a Welsh saint. It is among the oldest and most architecturally significant parish churches of Devon.
Edge, (originally, Egge [1]), is an ancient and historic house in the parish of Branscombe, Devon, England and is today known as Edge Barton Manor.The surviving house is grade II* listed [2] and sits on the steep, south-facing side of a wooded valley, or combe.
Berry Camp or Berry Cliff, is an Iron Age Hill fort on a partially eroded cliff top close to Branscombe in Devon. [1] The cliff is situated some 140 metres (460 ft) above sea level. [2] Berry Camp is a rectangular promontory hillfort located on a plateau, close to the cliff edge at Langham Field on Littlecombe Hill at Berry Cliff, Branscombe ...
The Hooken Undercliff is on the cliff route between Beer, Devon and Branscombe. A slump in the Chalk cliffs in 1790 separated a 10-acre (40,000 m 2) tract of land, now a wooded and sheltered habitat with chalk pinnacles on the seaward side. It is reached via a steep footpath leading from the clifftop to Branscombe Beach.
The beaching location was at Branscombe around 1 mile (1.6 km) off the Devon coast, near the coastal town of Sidmouth on 20 January. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] This area of the coastline where MSC Napoli was beached is a part of Britain's first natural World Heritage Site , the Jurassic Coast .
Branscombe Manor Mill Old Bakery, Branscombe Manor Mill water wheel. The Old Bakery, Manor Mill & Forge is a collection of buildings in Branscombe, Seaton, Devon, England. The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1965. The property consists of three buildings: a bakery, a watermill and a forge.
Stourton married Margery Wadham, a daughter of Sir John Wadham (c. 1344 – 1412) of Edge, Branscombe, Devon, [1] of Merryfield, Ilton, Somerset, and of Wadham, Knowstone near South Molton, Devon by his second wife Joan Wrottesley. Sir John Wadham was MP for Exeter in 1399 and for Devon, as a knight of the shire with Sir Philip Courtenay, in 1401