A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MORWELLHAM, a place, with an inn, on the W border of Devon; on the river Tamar, 4 miles SW of Tavistock. The Morwell Rocks, in the vicinity, are magnificent crags, rising to a great height, and crowned with shaggy pinnacles. Old Morwell House, near the S end of a tunnel of the Tavistock canal, is an ancient quadrangular building, in the pointed style; was once a huntingseat of the abbots of Tavistock; passed, with the abbey lands, at the dissolution, to the family of Russell; belongs now to the Duke of Bedford; was recently restored; and is used as a farm-house.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a place, with an inn" (ADL Feature Type: "buildings") |
| Administrative units: | Devon AncC |
| Place: | Morwellham |
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