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Place name County Entry Source Boohay Devon Boohay , hamlet, Brixham par., E. Devon, 4½ miles NE. of Dartmouth. Bartholomew BOOHAY Devon BOOHAY , a hamlet in Brixham parish, Devon; 4½ miles NE of Dartmouth. Pop., 28. Imperial Brixham Devon Brixham , seaport town and par., S. Devon, 7 m. SE. of Totnes and 225 SW. of London by rail -- par., 5611 ac., pop. 7033; town Bartholomew BRIXHAM Devon BRIXHAM , a town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Totnes district, Devon. The town stands at the southern point of Torbay Imperial Churston Ferrers Devon coast par. and vil. (ry. sta. Churston), S. Devon, 1½ mile W. of Brixham, 2532 ac., pop. 631; P.O. Bartholomew CHURSTON-FERRERS Devon Brixham, South Devon. Acres, 2, 777; of which 250 are water. Real property, £3, 498. Pop., 766. Houses, 145. The property Imperial DARTMOUTH Devon Brixham; and was recently connected by railway northward with the Torquay branch of the South Devon railway. It was known Imperial DARTMOUTH AND TORBAY RAILWAY Devon Brixham-Road, fully 2 miles, was opened in April 1861; and the rest was opened in August, 1864. The terminus Imperial DEVONSHIRE, or Devon Devon Brixham, Cleaves, and Ilsington. Granitic rocks occupy Dartmoor; old red sandstone or Devonian rocks form the northern part of North Imperial DEVON (South) RAILWAY Devon Brixham, and Dartmouth. The main line was authorized in 1844, and opened in 1847; and was worked for a time Imperial EXETER Cornwall
DevonBrixham, Ipplepen, St. Mary-Church, St. Nicholas, Paington, and Stoke-St. Gabriel; the p. curacies of Churston-Ferrers, Lower Brixham Imperial GALMPTON Devon Dartmouth. Pop., 261. It has a post office under Brixham, Devon, and an Independent chapel. Galmpton House here is the seat of the Luttrells. Imperial KINGSWEAR Devon Brixham; is supposed to be older than Dartmouth; has a post office under Dartmouth and a railway station; and occupies Imperial Lower Brixham Devon Lower Brixham , local government district, Brixham par., Devon, 7 miles SE. of Totnes, 399 ac., pop. 5366. See BRIXHAM. Bartholomew Lupton House Devon Lupton House , seat of Lord Churston, 1½ mile SW. of Brixham, Devon. Bartholomew TORBAY AND BRIXHAM RAILWAY Devon BRIXHAM RAILWAY , a railway in the SE of Devon; from the Dartmouth and Torbay line at Brixham-Road, 2¼ miles Imperial TOTNES Devon Brixham, and Paignton sub-districts; and comprises 98,342 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £12,052. Pop. in 1851, 34,022; in 1861, 32,942. Houses Imperial WOODHUISH Devon WOODHUISH , a hamlet in Brixham parish, Devon; 3¼ miles NE of Dartmouth. Imperial
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