• Kingswear is a village and civil parish in the South Hams area of the English county of Devon. The village is located on the east bank of the tidal River...
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    Kingswear Daymark (also known as The Tower) is a 24 m (80 ft) octagonal limestone day beacon built in 1864, in an arable field above Froward Point near...
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    PS Kingswear Castle is a steamship. She is a coal-fired river paddle steamer, dating from 1924 with engines from 1904. After running summer excursions...
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    Kingswear Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. It was constructed between 1491 and 1502 in response to the...
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    Paignton and Kingswear in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tourists from the resorts of Torbay, who travel to Kingswear, where...
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    Kingswear railway station is the terminus of the Dartmouth Steam Railway, a heritage railway in Devon, England. It is situated in the centre of Kingswear...
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    census. There are two electoral wards in the Dartmouth area (Townstal & Kingswear). Their combined population at the above census was 6,822. In 1086, the...
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    The Kingswear Regatta was held in August 2006 in Kingswear, Devon, England, for the first time in 100 years, and has been celebrated each year since apart...
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    The Dartmouth Higher Ferry, also known as the Dartmouth–Kingswear Floating Bridge, is a vehicular and passenger cable ferry, which crosses the River Dart...
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  • The railway branch line from Newton Abbot to Kingswear in Devon, England, is unusual as a large majority of the stations are still open for traffic. Of...
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    is one of three ferries that cross the tidal river from Dartmouth to Kingswear, the others being the Higher Ferry and the Passenger Ferry. The 630-mile...
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    extended into Kingswear. A site on the quay in Dartmouth was obtained and an 8-foot (2.4 m) wide jetty provided to accommodate a ferry from Kingswear. An 83-foot...
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    The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is situated in the village of Kingswear in the English county of Devon, it stands in a slightly elevated position...
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    from Exeter and heritage services on the Dartmouth Steam Railway from Kingswear. The railway to Paignton was built by the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway...
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    24-acre (97,000 m2) garden and a house in the Arts and Crafts style, near Kingswear in Devon, England. The property has been in the ownership of the National...
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  • memorial in the cloisters of Eton College and a plaque on a footpath at Kingswear, Devon. The memorial board from St Peter's School, carved with the name...
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    Coleton Fishacre was designed in 1925 as a holiday home in Kingswear, Devon, England, in the Arts and Crafts tradition....
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    charity and had bought the near-derelict small River Dart paddler PS Kingswear Castle. CalMac, keen to ensure that the ship was preserved, sold Waverley...
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  • Dartmouth and Torbay Railway reaching Brixham Road Station in 1861 and Kingswear in 1864, a regular connecting ferry service was run four times per day...
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  • Kingdom-based registered charity and owner of two working paddle steamers; PS Kingswear Castle and PS Waverley. In September 1959 a letter by Dr Alan Robinson...
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    parts from Brixham and Churston Ferrers were transferred to the parish of Kingswear, and there were more minor adjustments to the boundaries with the neighbouring...
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    Northern Ireland Islay GCI Station, subsite of RAF Bishops Court RAF Kingswear England Devon Chain Home Low RAF Kinley Hill England County Durham Chain...
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    Passenger Ferry, which connects the terminus of the steam railway at Kingswear station to the waterfront at Dartmouth, on the opposite bank of River...
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    Duke of Lancaster Explorer Freshspring Gondola Great Britain John H Amos Kingswear Castle Knocker White Lydia Eva Maid of the Loch Medway Queen Nomadic Queen...
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    Duke of Lancaster Explorer Freshspring Gondola Great Britain John H Amos Kingswear Castle Knocker White Lydia Eva Maid of the Loch Medway Queen Nomadic Queen...
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    battery was built on the east of the harbor mouth, just upriver from Kingswear Castle. The intent was to defend the river Dart. Fitzsimons, Bernard,...
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    Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2017 1324 The Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge (Revision of Charges etc.) Order 2017 1325 The Terrorism...
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    Dec 2023 - Present The college taken from the other side of the Dart at Kingswear International air cadets from the International Air Cadet Exchange on...
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    estate is served by a steam railway service with trains from Paignton and Kingswear stopping at Greenway Halt station. Greenway is located on the eastern...
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    Surviving examples of wooden train sheds in his style are at Frome and Kingswear. The Swindon Steam Railway Museum has many artefacts from Brunel's time...
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