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    Priory of St Mary Magdalene in Barnstaple was a priory in Devon, England. It was founded in about 1107 by Juhel de Totnes, feudal baron of Barnstaple...
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    feudal baron of Totnes. By 1107 Juhel had founded Totnes Priory and then Barnstaple Priory, of the Cluniac order, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. After...
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    held the castle in the early 12th century. Juhel also established Barnstaple Priory around 1107. King Stephen granted the castle to Henry de Tracy, one...
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    great charge" the Vicarage House at Barnstaple, which largely survives today, at the entrance of Barnstaple Priory, originally erected on that site in...
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    Arthington Priory, Yorkshire (nuns) Barnstaple Priory, Devon Bermondsey Abbey, London Bromholm Priory, Norfolk Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk Daventry Priory, Northamptonshire...
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    Axminster Monastery (poss. site) Axmouth Priory (site) Barnstaple Priory Bodmiscombe Preceptory Brightley Priory (approx.) Buckfast monastery Buckfast Abbey...
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    two of the English witnesses had previously witnessed a charter to Barnstaple Priory in 1146 for Henry de Tracy, who had married a daughter of Juhel de...
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  • The Archdeaconry of Barnstaple or Barum is one of the oldest archdeaconries in England. It is an administrative division of the Diocese of Exeter in the...
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    Martin Blake (clergyman) (category Clergy from Barnstaple)
    Convent of Barnstaple Priory, at the entrance to the now demolished Priory. The will of Gilbert Paige (c.1595-1647) of Crock Street, Barnstaple, and Rookabeare...
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    1087. In about 1107, Juhel, who had already founded Totnes Priory, founded Barnstaple Priory, of the Cluniac order, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. Juhel's...
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    Pilton is the 13th-century Anglican parish church for the Pilton suburb of Barnstaple in Devon. It has been a Grade I listed building since 1951 and comes under...
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    Pilton House in the parish of Pilton, near Barnstaple, North Devon, Ex31, is an historic grade II listed Georgian mansion house built in 1746 by Robert...
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  • (1066–1087). He was the first feudal baron of Totnes and feudal baron of Barnstaple, both in Devon. He originated either in Brittany or in Mayenne, in the...
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    of Effingham (1577–1615) several of the larger former holdings of Barnstaple Priory in Pilton and Bradiford, whose family had held the lands since the...
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    Pilton, Devon (category Barnstaple)
    suburb of the town of Barnstaple, it is located about quarter of a mile north of the town centre, in the civil parish of Barnstaple, in the North Devon...
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  • Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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    The Mayor of Barnstaple together with the Corporation long governed the historic Borough of Barnstaple, in North Devon, England. The seat of government...
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    John Gay (category Writers from Barnstaple)
    resident at the priory Cloister Hall with its lands, until 1823) and became "powerful and numerous" in the town, "established among Barnstaple's leading families...
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    churches or chapels of ease. Nearly a thousand religious houses (abbeys, priories and friaries) were founded in England and Wales during the medieval period...
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    Nicholas Hooper (1654–1731) (category People educated at Barnstaple Grammar School)
    excluding a small part held by the Rectory of Barnstaple. As such, due to the historical duties of the former Priory of Pilton, he was responsible for repairing...
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    The historic manor of Raleigh, near Barnstaple and in the parish of Pilton, North Devon, England, was the first recorded home in the 14th century of the...
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  • Community Hospital – Newton Abbot, Devon North Devon District Hospital – Barnstaple, Devon North Somerset Community Hospital, Clevedon, North Somerset Paulton...
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    - Tavistock - Holsworthy - Barnstaple 642 - Northlew - Shebbear - Bideford 646 – Halwill Junction - Holsworthy - Barnstaple The nearest railway stations...
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    James Knight-Bruce (category Businesspeople from Barnstaple)
    and heiress of William Bruce of Llanblethian, Glamorgan. He was born at Barnstaple on 15 February 1791, and was educated at King Edward's grammar school...
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    South Molton, Devon, was the 2nd son of John Rashleigh (died 1528) of Barnstaple in Devon, whose great-grandfather had been John Rashleigh alias Bray,...
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    supervising architect on these improvements and the contractor was Pulsman of Barnstaple. (the north-west corner being the work of 'Mr Mathews', according to the...
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    coaching inns in the village, which was at the intersection of the London to Barnstaple and Bath to Poole routes. In 1851 the population reached its peak at 619...
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    Church Copenhagen - Stock Exchange Copenhagen - Church of Our Saviour Barnstaple, Devon - St. Peter's church Chesterfield, Derbyshire - Church of St Mary...
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  • Counties League Premier Division 9 Barlick Barnsley EFL League One 3 Tykes Barnstaple Town Western League Premier Division 9 Barum Barnton North West Counties...
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    Augustinian canons regular, either of St Mary du Val in Normandy or of Merton Priory, which owned it for several centuries. It is best known today for the Canonteign...
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