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934:, held in the fourth week in August which raises funds for local groups and associations. Since 2012 it has also held an annual flag festival: in 2017 it took place in mid-June. Other events include a fireworks night, annual pantomime, food and drink festival and music events spread throughout the year.
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states that the town continued to be known simply as
Moreton to the majority of people prior to the arrival of the railway, which made the station Moretonhampstead in order to distinguish it from other towns called Moreton on the railways network, with 45 other settlements called Moreton or Morton.
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Standing behind the Cross Tree are the famous almshouses, built in solid granite. The date of 1637 on the outside is actually the date they were refurbished. Recent research has shown that the main core of these buildings are at least two hundred years older. Early in the 19th century the building
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A series of fires in the 20th century destroyed many of
Moretonhampstead's ancient buildings, but sufficient still remain to demonstrate the Saxon and medieval heritage, and its later industrial prosperity. Much of the town is a designated
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were removed with the floor flagstones in the first restoration, but above the south door a wall memorial to Rev
Francis Whiddon, MA (died 1656) who "was 32 years minister of this parish" survives. There is also a classical monument by
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and remained prosperous until the end of the 17th century, when the wool industry began to decline. The town continued to be a local trading centre and a rest stop for travellers on the difficult routes across
Dartmoor and from
633:, who gave Moretonhampstead to his third son Robert de Courtenay, who made it his seat. Robert's grandson William de Courtenay (1377â1388) died childless, and eventually the manor became the property of
1594:. However, the parish council has not elected to give itself the status of a town as it could do under s.245(6) of the Local Government Act 1972, so it does not have a town council and cannot elect a
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and (in later years) the manufacture of woollen cloth formed the basis of the town's economy for over 700 years. The economy was evidently healthy when
Moretonhampstead established a water-powered
862:, is at the eastern end of the town. Its imposing four-stage tower with pentagonal stair-turret was being built by 1418. The entire church is built of granite blocks although the body is
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was converted from two tenements into four and the facade was damaged. By 1938 they had fallen into disrepair. In 1940 they were purchased for the town and converted back into two
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991:. This facility includes indoor courts for basketball etc., a gym and also conference rooms to rent. It has cricket fields a camping site, football facilities and a skate park.
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per year. The bird has become something of a symbol for the town and is to be incorporated into works of public art under development by an artist in residence,
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on the south side of the town on 26 June 1866. It closed to passengers on 28 February 1959, although goods trains continued until 6 April 1964. After this the
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Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, Chapter 1:45
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sometime after 710. Over time, it was divided into a number of estates, and one of these divisions included all land within the boundaries of the rivers
751:, he married Elizabeth Bertie but they had no children, and his property in Moretonhampstead was inherited by his nephew, also James Fynes (died 1798).
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Moretonhampstead has a good range of sporting facilities and the proximity of
Dartmoor makes it popular with ramblers and cyclists, in particular for
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has been planted. It was around the original tree that the village lads and lasses would dance and it recorded that French officers on parole from
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The present parish of over 6,000 acres (24 km) is the remainder of an ancient royal estate. It remained a royal estate immediately after the
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Bus services are from the car park just west of the town centre and include services to Exeter (359/173) and
Okehampton/Newton Abbot (178).
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in 1692 noting it as "Moreton al. Moreton
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and John Pike Jones (editors), 1828, Exeter: E. Woolmer.
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from 1735 until his death. Previously Vice-President of
1521:, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley. 1803. London.
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Moretonhampstead â Moretonhampstead Development Trust
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the population of the parish was 1,703, and Moorland
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765:: the house where he was born burned down in 1926.
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1303:. Oxford: the University Press. pp. 1131â2.
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1327:The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names
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527:The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names
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1357:. Cambridge The University press. p. 29.
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778:The Church of St Andrew, Moretonhampstead
619:Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester
609:(killed at Stirling 1314), second son of
504:. This part of the name derives from the
1622:) is being considered for deletion. See
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1188:. Oxford University Press. p. 334.
962:Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway
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623:Hugh de Courtenay, 1st/9th Earl of Devon
561:, with Moreton as its major settlement.
400:. The parish now includes the hamlet of
392:, situated on the north-eastern edge of
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596:Richard de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
1185:A dictionary of British place-names
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1354:Small Talk at Wreyland: Volume II
1275:Place-names in Devon and Cornwall
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643:Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon
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1643:Moretonhampstead History Society
1030:. Office for National Statistics
958:Moretonhampstead railway station
788:The Cross Tree, immortalised by
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308:http://www.moretonhampstead.com/
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2412:North Devon's Biosphere Reserve
2044:List of civil parishes in Devon
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1545:www.visitmoretonhampstead.co.uk
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1217:The English Place-Name Society
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1231:"Old English Core Vocabulary"
1182:Mills, Anthony David (2003).
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500:of 1086 records the manor as
2297:Parliamentary constituencies
1655:travel guide from Wikivoyage
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1456:www.moretonhampstead.org.uk
1425:Sir John-William de la Pole
1079:"Local Government Act 1972"
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90:OS grid reference
21:Human settlement in England
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2332:Grade II* listed buildings
1427:(ed.), London, 1791, p.263
1324:Victor Watts, ed. (2004).
1301:The Oxford Names Companion
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1368:Hesketh, Robert (2008).
1233:. St Andrews University.
1028:Neighbourhood Statistics
749:Magdalen College, Oxford
517:Inquisitions Post Mortem
2694:Civil parishes in Devon
1104:"Map of Devon Parishes"
897:Edward Bowring Stephens
870:are separated from the
607:Sir Philip de Courtenay
111:215 miles (346 km)
1561:Visit Moretonhampstead
1272:Grigg, Arthur (1988).
1136:"Ward population 2011"
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709:Dartmoor National Park
398:Dartmoor National Park
221:Postcode district
16:Town in Devon, England
2689:Market towns in Devon
2653:Widecombe in the Moor
2402:South West Coast Path
1737:Boroughs or districts
1446:. Exeter, 1895. p.244
1394:Thorn, Chapter 1:1-72
983:Moretonhampstead has
942:The town lies on the
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611:Sir Hugh de Courtenay
577:William the Conqueror
534:Court of Common Pleas
2503:Buckland-in-the-Moor
2292:Devon County Council
1440:Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.
1351:Torr, Cecil (1921).
979:Sport and recreation
755:George Parker Bidder
641:, 5th or 6th son of
635:Sir Philip Courtenay
201:Sovereign state
2337:Scheduled monuments
2312:Towns by population
1790:(cities in italics)
1716:Unitary authorities
985:King George's Field
759:calculating prodigy
352: /
1837:Budleigh Salterton
1213:"Moretonhampstead"
1116:on 2 November 2013
1083:legislation.gov.uk
960:was opened by the
847:St Andrew's Church
792:in his 1882 novel
781:
769:Places of interest
741:Dukes of Newcastle
356:50.6603°N 3.7671°W
287:UK Parliament
264:Devon and Somerset
252:Devon and Cornwall
233:Dialling code
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1788:Major settlements
1691:Ceremonial county
1506:978-0-300-09596-8
1494:Pevsner, Nikolaus
1421:Pole, Sir William
1371:Devon Place Names
1337:978-0-521-16855-7
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