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ABBOTSKERSWELL, or Abbot's Carswell, is a pleasant village, two miles S. of Newton Abbot, and has in its parish 433 souls and 1600 acres of land, including several scattered houses and the hamlet of Aller, where there is a paper mill, on a rivulet 1 ½ mile from the church.
John Ridgeway (c. 1517 – 1560) (alias Peacock) of Abbots Carswell and Tor Mohun in Devon, was a lawyer who served as a Member of Parliament, twice for Dartmouth in 1539 and 1545 and twice for Exeter in 1553 and 1554. [2]
Tor Mohun was purchased by John Ridgeway (c. 1517 – 1560) [7] of Abbots Carswell in Devon, a Member of Parliament for Dartmouth and Exeter. His son Thomas Ridgeway (1543–1598), MP, later purchased the adjoining Torre Abbey [10] from Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet (c. 1563 –1613) [7] of Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
Abbotsleigh House [1] [2] [3] was built on high ground on the outskirts of Abbotskerswell during 1847-48. The land had formerly belonged to the Abbot of Sherborne.The house, with about 36 acres (150,000 m 2) of land, was purchased by the Catholic Church in February 1860, and became the hub around which the new Priory of St. Augustine was built.
Lacey is not the first woman to report sexual abuse at FMC Carswell. A 2022 Star-Telegram investigation found that the prison has long been plagued with systemic sexual abuse and cover-ups.A ...
Kingskerswell (formerly Kings Carswell, [1] or Kings Kerswell) is a village and civil parish within Teignbridge local government district in the south of Devon, England. The village grew up where an ancient track took the narrowest point across a marshy valley and it is of ancient foundation, being mentioned in the Domesday Book .
The nation’s only medical prison for women, FMC Carswell had the highest rate and number of sexual assault allegations against staff at any federal women’s prison from 2014 to 2018, the Star ...
The union president at FMC Carswell prison in Fort Worth laid out accusations of “corruption, misconduct and malfeasance” at the federal women’s prison in a letter sent to state and federal ...