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The railway for around a mile south of Tavistock North station is open to the public as a footpath and nature reserve and one can walk across the viaducts that overlook the town. [31] The trackbed of the Tavistock North route is almost intact to Bere Alston, where it joins today's Tamar Valley Line. The possible re-opening of a rail link has ...
Tavistock Goose Fair, known locally as the Goosey, [1] or Goosie, [2] Fair, is the annual fair in the stannary town of Tavistock in the west of Devon, England.It has been held on the second Wednesday of October since 1823 [2] and it is one of only three historically established traditional fairs in the UK to carry the name, the other being the larger Nottingham Goose Fair, and the smaller ...
When the South Devon & Tavistock Railway was built by Brunel in the 1850s, several tunnels and bridges were necessary to cover the terrain. The most northerly tunnel of the railway was located in Grenofen. [2] The tunnel is 374 yards long and today forms part of the Tavistock to Plymouth cycle route, part of the Drake's Trail. [3] [4]
The paper exists as the result of the merging of two rival papers in 1986. The Tavistock Times, founded in 1920, competed with the older Tavistock Gazette, founded in 1857, and each at various points threatened to put the other out of business. [2] The paper has a circulation of about 8,000 in 2007, [3] and is owned by the Tindle Newspaper Group.
Tavistock Town Hall is a municipal building in Bedford Square, Tavistock, Devon, England. The structure, which remains the main venue for civic events in the town, is a Grade II listed building . [ 1 ]
Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline as the Israel-Hamas war enters a fifth day. Palestinian civilians were scrambling to find safe havens on Wednesday morning (11 October) as Israel stepped up a ...
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Bere Alston is about 12 km north of the centre of Plymouth as the crow flies, but the road trip requires either a long detour via Tavistock or else negotiating narrow lanes and a narrow bridge. Trains still run to Bere Alston railway station on the picturesque Tamar Valley Line between Plymouth and Gunnislake, and trains reverse at this station.