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Buckfast (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 29 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.4833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 003 47 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -3.7833 decimal degrees |
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Note: Benedictine monks settled here in 1018; the abbey became Cistercian in 1147; the present building is mostly 20th-century but a stone block in the churchyard may be the Norman alter. |
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| Buckfast (preferred,C,V)
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| Bucfestra (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Bulfestra (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Devon (county) (P) |
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Buckfast (inhabited place) (P) |
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