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Whitchurch (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 32 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.5333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 004 08 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -4.1333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Two old crosses mark the Abbot's Way from Tavistock; Honour Oak, on the Tavistock road, was the parole boundary for French prisoners of war from Princetown during the Napoleonic wars. |
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| Whitchurch (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Whitechurch (NA,V,English,U)
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| Wicerce (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Devon (county) (P) |
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