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3 unusual facts about Bickleigh, Mid Devon


Cadeleigh

Between 1885 and 1963 Cadeleigh also had a railway station, although it was actually located much closer to the nearby village of Bickleigh (in fact, the railway station was named "Cadeleigh and Bickleigh" before 1906).

Charles Carew

Carew was the son of Reverend Robert Baker Carew, Rector of Bickleigh, Devon, grandson of Sir Thomas Carew, 6th Baronet (see Carew baronets).

Devon Railway Centre

The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway.


Butterleigh

Butterleigh is a village in Mid Devon, England situated about three miles south east of Tiverton.

Highweek

Theobald's guardians were Henry and Matilda de Bickleigh and it is likely that they abandoned Castle Dyke in favour of a new manor house built in the nearby valley of the River Lemon around this time.

Shillingford, Devon

Shillingford is a village two miles (3 km) north-east of Bampton on the River Batherm in Mid Devon, close to the border with West Somerset.


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