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unusual facts about County of Devon



Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale

On 19 January 1925 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Merrivale, of Walkhampton in the County of Devon.


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Calvados

The Conseil General of Calvados and Devon County Council signed a Twinning Charter in 1971 to develop links with the English county of Devon.

Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear

The Church of St Thomas of Canterburyis situated in the village of Kingswear in the English county of Devon, it stands in a slightly elevated position at the junction of Higher Street and Church Hill close to the railway station and the Dartmouth Lower Ferry and overlooks the River Dart.

Fuller-Eliott-Drake baronets

The Fuller-Eliott-Drake Baronetcy, of Nutwell Court, Buckland Abbey, or Monachorum, Sherford, and Yarcombe in the County of Devon, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

John Foot, Baron Foot

He remained in the Liberal Party during the long period of its post-war decline and was subsequently made a life peer on 29 November 1967 as Baron Foot, of Buckland Monachorum in the County of Devon.

John Richardson, Baron Richardson

Sir John Samuel Richardson, Baron Richardson of Lee in the County of Devon, 1st Baronet LVO FRCP (16 June 1910 – 15 Aug. 2004) was a British surgeon, President of the General Medical Council, 1973–80, etc.

Pole baronets

The Pole, later de-la-Pole, later Reeve-de-la-Pole Baronetcy, of Shute House in the County of Devon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 September 1628 for John Pole, Member of Parliament for Devon.

River Burn

The River Burn, Devon, a tributary of the River Tavy on Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England

Yondertown

Yondertown is a mining hamlet located in an Area of Great Landscape Value on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in the English county of Devon.