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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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STOKE-GABRIEL, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Totnes district, Devon: on the river Dart, 4 miles SE of Totnes r. station. It has a post-office under Totnes. Acres, 3,075; of which 480 are water. Real property, £5,223. Pop., 622. Houses, 142. The property is much subdivided. Waddeton Court is the seat of H. Studdy, Esq.; Sandridge, of Lord Cranstoun; and Maisonette, of H.Hunt, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £163. Patrons, alternately Sir S. H. Northcote, Bart., J. Belfield, Esq., and F. G. Templar, Esq. The church is chiefly decorated English. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £10. Davis, the discoverer of Davis' Straits, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village and two hamlets" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stoke Gabriel AP/CP Totnes RegD/PLU Devon AncC |
| Place: | Stoke Gabriel |
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