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Moreton Hampstead (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 39 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.6500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 003 45 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -3.7500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Small market town on Dartmoor with 17th-century almshouses; old wayside crosses nearby include Horspit Cross; the church has tombstones of Napoleonic prisoners of war. |
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| Moreton Hampstead (preferred,C,V)
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| Moretonhampstead (C,V,English,U)
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| Mortona (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Mortone (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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