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Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. It is part of Teignbridge and, for ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery .
West Buckfastleigh is a civil parish located at the eastern fringes of Dartmoor, and lies inside of the borders of the National Park. The majority of the parish is farmland. The parallel valleys of the Holy Brook and the River Mardle run through the parish. It is crossed by the ancient track known as Abbots' Way. [1]
Teignbridge is a local government district in Devon, England.Its council is based in the town of Newton Abbot.The district also includes the towns of Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish, Kingsteignton and Teignmouth, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
The Tradesman's Arms. The village is about three miles northwest of Buckfastleigh and is situated within the boundaries of Dartmoor National Park.. The village consists largely of about a dozen stone-built cottages, but there are also 4 local authority houses, and a farm in the centre of the village, also a popular inn with food and accommodation, called The Tradesman's Arms. [2]
Buckfastleigh Urban District Council, which had been based at Harewood House further to the west along Bossell Road, [10] relocated to the town hall in the 1960s. [11] However, this was short-lived as the town hall ceased to be the local seat of government when Teignbridge District Council was formed in 1974. [ 12 ]
Rattery is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England, a few miles from the villages Buckfastleigh and neighbouring village Ashburton. The name has been suggested as a variant of Red Tree but is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ratreu. In 2001 the parish had a population of 458.
Dean Prior is a village and civil parish near the A38 road, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England. It is located near the town of Buckfastleigh and north of South Brent. In the 1870s, Dean Prior was described as "a parish in Totnes district, Devon; on the verge of Dartmoor, near the river Dart, 3 miles N of Brent r ...
Buckfast Abbey and Methodist Church. Buckfast is a small village near Buckfastleigh in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, on the bank of the River Dart. [1] It is the home of Buckfast Abbey, an active Benedictine monastery, which gave its name to Buckfast Tonic Wine, originally made there, and to the Buckfast bee, a bee breed originally developed at Buckfast Abbey.