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  2. History of Devon - Wikipedia

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    Ancient extent of Devon. Devon is a county in south west England, bordering Cornwall to the west with Dorset and Somerset to the east. There is evidence of occupation of the county from the Stone Age onwards. Its recorded history starts in the Roman period, when it was a civitas.

  3. Hundatorra - Wikipedia

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    Hundatorra or Hundetorre is a deserted medieval village near Hound Tor on Dartmoor, Devon.The site has seen two periods of historic occupation, the first in the Bronze Age from around 1700 – 1200 BCE and deserted by 1000 BCE, and the reoccupation during the Medieval Warm Period until approximately the 14th century.

  4. History of Plymouth - Wikipedia

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    The History of Plymouth in Devon, England, extends back to the Bronze Age, when the first settlement began at Mount Batten a peninsula in Plymouth Sound facing onto the English Channel. It continued as both a fishing and continental tin trading port through the late Iron Age into the Early Medieval period, until the more prosperous Saxon ...

  5. Okehampton Castle - Wikipedia

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    Okehampton Castle is a medieval motte and bailey castle in Devon, England.It was built between 1068 and 1086 by Baldwin FitzGilbert following a revolt in Devon against Norman rule, and formed the centre of the Honour of Okehampton, guarding a crossing point across the West Okement River.

  6. Lydford Castle - Wikipedia

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    Lydford Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lydford, Devon, England. The first castle in Lydford, sometimes termed the Norman fort, was a small ringwork built in a corner of the Anglo-Saxon fortified burh in the years after the Norman conquest of England. It was intended to help control Devon following the widespread revolt against ...

  7. Dartington Hall - Wikipedia

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    Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed ; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "one of the most spectacular surviving domestic buildings of late Medieval England ...

  8. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Uffculme - Wikipedia

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    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the main Church of England parish church for the village of Uffculme, Devon, England.First mentioned in a charter dating back to 1136, the present church has a mixture of medieval and Victorian architecture and is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

  9. Feudal barony of Plympton - Wikipedia

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    Hugh Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1276–1340), [10] (son). In 1293 on the death of his cousin Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon (1237–1293) (eldest daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (1217–1245), feudal baron of Plympton in Devon [8]) he became heir to the feudal barony of Plympton, [8] and in 1335 was declared Earl of Devon.