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Barnstaple (/ ˈ b ɑːr n s t ə b əl / ⓘ or / ˈ b ɑːr n s t ə p əl / [3]) is a river-port town and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England.The town lies at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel.
Bideford Bay, also known as Barnstaple Bay and often shown on maps as Barnstaple or Bideford Bay, is a large area of water on the northwest coast of Devon in South West England, at the southwestern end of the Bristol Channel where it joins the Celtic Sea.
North Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.Its council is based just outside Barnstaple, the district's largest town.The district also includes the towns of Ilfracombe, Lynton and Lynmouth and South Molton along with numerous villages, seaside resorts and surrounding rural areas.
The museum was founded as the North Devon Athenæum in 1888 by William Frederick Rock, who intended it to serve as a replacement for the Barnstaple Literary and Scientific Institute he had created in 1845. In addition to functioning as a library and museum, the building served as an informal records office for Barnstaple.
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Queen Anne's Walk, Barnstaple, south front. Immediately left is the River Taw.Before being filled-in, the large sunken rectangular paved area in front was Barnstaple Quay at which merchant ships loaded and unloaded "The Strand, Barnstaple", painted c.1880s by Joseph Kennedy (c.1838–1893), view looking northward.
Sponsored by the North Devon tourist board, Wessex Trains renamed unit 150241 to The Tarka Belle and changed its livery to advertising for tourist destinations on the Tarka Line. [ citation needed ] The line was transferred to First Great Western in 2006, who rebranded as GWR in 2015 and introduced the line's current fleet and service pattern ...
In 2009, James May attempted to reconnect the former Bideford station with Barnstaple Junction using an OO scale model train as part of James May's Toy Stories. Unfortunately, the last train - a Hornby Class 395 "Javelin", and the prototype model for the production models - burnt out at Instow at 12:18am the day after the trains left Barnstaple ...
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