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    Bere Alston is a village in West Devon in the county of Devon in England. It forms part of the civil parish of Bere Ferrers. With a population of about...
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    Bere Alston railway station serves the village of Bere Alston in Devon, England, 10+1⁄4 miles (16.5 km) north of Plymouth on the Tamar Valley Line to...
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    single track past St. Budeaux Junction. The line from St Budeaux to Bere Alston was opened for passenger traffic on 2 June 1890 by the Plymouth, Devonport...
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  • public as a footpath and nature reserve. The route is almost intact to Bere Alston where it joins today's Tamar Valley Line between Gunnislake and Plymouth...
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  • Bere Alston or Beeralston was a parliamentary borough in Devon, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until...
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    Line. The civil parish includes the whole of the Bere peninsula, including the village of Bere Alston and the smaller settlements of Tuckermarsh, Rumleigh...
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    connected Kelly Bray and Calstock, and connected it to the main line at Bere Alston. This became the Callington branch, and the PD&SWJR operated the line...
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    South Western Railway, on the route between Lydford and Plymouth via Bere Alston. This opened on 2 June 1890 and closed on 6 May 1968. The main station...
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    elected as a Member of Parliament for Launceston, Cornwall, in 1621, for Bere Alston on 28 April 1640 (in the Short Parliament) and for Launceston again in...
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  • Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753–1827) was British MP for Bere Alston, amateur painter, patron and collector. George Beaumont may also refer to:...
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    Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    also the British House of Commons as member for the rotten borough of Bere Alston in Devon. Soon afterwards he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury by...
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    William Mitford (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    This ended in 1790 but Mitford was assisted into one of the seats for Bere Alston in 1796 by his second cousin (and the duke's second son) Algernon Percy...
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    George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    Ireland in 1776. He was elected to a seat in the British parliament (Bere Alston) from 1780 to 1781. Macartney was the governor of Grenada from 1776 to...
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  • biopsychological theory of personality Belt alternator starter, or BAS hybrid Bere Alston railway station, National Rail station code BAS Bergen Arkitekt Skole...
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    Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy (category Members of the Parliament of England for Bere Alston)
    returned to the Commons as MP for St Ives, Cornwall in 1584 and for Bere Alston in 1586 and 1593, before entering the House of Lords in 1594. Between...
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    George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    Northumberland was returned to parliament for the rotten borough of Bere Alston in 1799, a seat he held until 1830, when he succeeded his father in the...
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    William Strode (category Members of the Parliament of England for Bere Alston)
    1624, Strode was elected Member of Parliament for Bere Alston, and was re-elected MP for Bere Alston in 1625, 1626 and 1628. He opposed Charles I from...
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  • the colony of South Australia Thomas Burgoyne (Bere Alston MP), member of parliament for Bere Alston Thomas Burgoyne (Cambridgeshire MP), member of parliament...
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  • Henry Drake, 5th Baronet (1723–1794), Master of the Household and MP for Bere Alston Francis Drake (antiquary) (1696–1771), English antiquary and surgeon...
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    Sir Francis Drake, 4th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    unopposed at Tavistock in 1722 and 1727. He was also returned in 1727 for Bere Alston where the family controlled one seat, but chose to sit for Tavistock...
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    Benjamin Bathurst (courtier) (category Members of the Parliament of England for Bere Alston)
    represent New Romney as a government nominee, but then chose to represent Bere Alston instead, for which he had also been elected. He held that seat until...
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    Parliament for Northumberland. He was elected MP for both Northumberland and Bere Alston in 1780, and chose to continue sitting for Northumberland. In 1786, he...
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    crossing the Tamar above Calstock and onto the junction at Bere Alston. The Gunnislake to Bere Alston section still survives as part of the Tamar Valley Line...
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  • 1656,1679–1685,1689,1690, Bere Alston 1661, 1685 and others John Maynard (died 1662) (1638–1662), English MP for Bere Alston, 1660 John Maynard (New York...
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    ]) have proposed the reinstatement of the line between Okehampton and Bere Alston, thereby reconnecting the station with Plymouth. The reopening of the...
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    Peter King, 1st Baron King (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    In 1700 he was returned to Parliament of England as the member for Bere Alston in Devon, holding the seat until 1715. He was appointed recorder of Glastonbury...
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    town of Callington, Cornwall. It was the terminus of a branch line from Bere Alston, built by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway...
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  • Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    College, Cambridge. Howard was returned as Member of Parliament for Bere Alston by his uncle, Sir John Hobart, 5th Baronet. He voted consistently against...
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    Exeter St Davids Tiverton Parkway Gunnislake–Plymouth Tamar Valley Line Bere Alston Bere Ferrers St Budeaux Victoria Road Keyham Dockyard Devonport Plymouth...
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    William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (category Members of the Parliament of England for Bere Alston)
    Preceded by Sir Rowland Gwynne Sir Peter King Member of Parliament for Bere Alston 1701–1705 With: Sir Peter King Succeeded by Sir Peter King Spencer Cowper...
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