He was buried in the city's Sewri Cemetery and as per his last wishes Sarayu Srivatsa buried the soil from his grave in Odcombe, Somerset, on 19 July 2002 (his birthdate).
In the 1860s the village church was redeveloped, during which the preserved shoes of Thomas Coryat were lost.
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Notable residents of the village include Humphrey Hody, a 17th-century monk and theologian, George Strong, a 19th-century soldier awarded the Victoria Cross in the Crimean war, and Thomas Coryat, a 17th-century traveller and writer; author of Coryat's Crudities.
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