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2 unusual facts about Morice Town


Campbell Tait

Born in Morice Town, Devon to Deputy Surgeon-General and author, William Tait, and his wife Emma, Tait entered the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in 1902.

Morice Town

It named after Sir William Morice who owned the land at the time that it was being developed for housing for the employees in the Naval Dockyard.



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James Polkinghorne

This match, the purse for which was £200 a side for the best of three back falls, took place at Tamar Green, Morice Town, near Devonport, on 23 October 1826, in the presence of upwards of 12,000 spectators.