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4 unusual facts about North Devon


Ashley Eastham

He signed his first professional contract in May 2009, then in July he played for the first team in the pre-season South West Challenge Cup held in North Devon, including playing in the 5–0 win over Barnstaple Town.

Helen Fry

Helen Fry (born 1967) is historian and biographer born in Ilfracombe, North Devon.

Riverine Herald

He was born on 26 February 1819 at Bideford, North Devon, England as the son of a Royal Navy Commander R.T. Haverfield, and his wife, née Ross.

Sir Samuel Way, 1st Baronet

Samuel, the eldest child, remained behind, studying at Shebbear College in Shebbear, a small village in North Devon, and later at a school in Chatham in Kent.



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Baron Zouche

He married Adeline (Alice) de Belmeis, daughter of Phillip de Belmeis and Maud la Meschine and died at North Molton in North Devon.

Charles Henry Darling

Married, thirdly, at Ilfracombe, North Devon on 10 December 1851 to Elizabeth Isabella Caroline Salter (born circa 1820 – died 10 December 1900).

Evan Henry Llewellyn

Llewellyn was the fourth son of Llewellyn Llewellyn of Buckland Filleigh, North Devon.

Exmoor Steam Railway

The Exmoor Steam Railway is a narrow gauge steam railway and locomotive manufacturer, located at Bratton Fleming in North Devon.

Harvest jug

They are traditional in the south-west of England, especially the ports of Barnstaple and Bideford in north Devon and Donyatt in Somerset.

John Denzel

A cadet branch of the family had earlier acquired by marriage lands in North Devon, which were subsequently held from 1454 to the present by the Fortescue family.

Molton

North Molton, village, parish and former manor in north Devon, England

National and Local Government Officers' Association

NALGO provided a wide range of benefits for its members, including one of the first holiday camps at Croyde in north Devon and shortly afterwards a second, larger camp at Cayton Bay near Scarborough.

Portreath

In the late 1770s, during the American Revolutionary War, lieutenant-colonel of the North Devon militia, Francis Basset, commanded local miners to fortify the port, which helped counter a Franco-Spanish invasion fleet gathered as part of the European theatre of the war, some of them still standing to this day.

Serpell Report

There would have been some more network cuts, such as the Trowbridge-Melksham-Chippenham line, the branches north of Norwich, the north Devon line from Exeter towards Barnstaple, the line between Swansea and Stokesay, and the mid-Wales branch west of Shrewsbury.

Sexton

Sexton's Burrows, peninsula at the harbour of Watermouth Bay on the North Devon coast, England

Shirwell

The parish was successively the seat of two of the leading families of North Devon, the Beaumonts (to the end of the 15th century) and their heirs the Chichesters of Raleigh, Pilton, both of which families lived on the estate of Youlston within the Manor of Shirwell.

The Weird Weekend

By 2005 it was the largest cryptozoological conference in Britain, and in 2006, when the CFZ relocated from suburban Exeter to the small village of Woolfardisworthy in North Devon, the Weird Weekend followed, and the 2006 event was a massive success.

Ukulele Songs from the North Devon Coast

Ukulele Songs From the North Devon Coast is an EP by the British singer/songwriter Darren Hayman.