A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SHEEPSTOR, a parish in Tavistock district, Devon; 4 miles N E by N of Bickleigh r. station, and 7 S E of Tavistock. Post-town, Tavistock. Acres, 3, 595. Real property, £881. Pop., 98. Houses, 20. The surface comprises some of the most picturesque and romanticportions of the W side of Dartmoor; and includes Sheep-storrock, a precipitous, fissured, soaring eminence, figuring conspicuously in the moor's landscape, and fabled tobe the haunt of the Devonshire fairies, the pixies. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Bickleigh, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is old.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Sheepstor Ch/CP Tavistock RegD/PLU Devon AncC |
| Place: | Sheepstor |
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