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- proper noun A town in
Devon ,England
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Examples
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Healey (without betraying his master) began to serve six months in Barnstaple jail in lieu of paying the fine, the town officials investigated Shelley; Drake's letter notes that Mr Shelley has been regarded with a suspicious Eye since he has been in Lymouth, from the
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But the most creative voters were those in Barnstaple.
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The Governor, seeing that resistance was hopeless, gave 'the castle and the town ... as a security for surrender of the fort at eight days' end '; and on honourable terms Barnstaple yielded to the enemy.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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About July this year, [1645,] the plague increased so fast in Bristol, that the Prince and all his retinue went to Barnstaple, which is one of the finest towns in England; and your father and I went two days after the Prince; for during all the time I was in the Court I never journeyed but either before him, or when he was gone, nor ever saw him but at church, for it was not in those days the fashion for honest women, except they had business, to visit a man's Court.
Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. Anne Harrison Fanshawe 1652
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The man said a shot had been heard very close to the Tiverton to Barnstaple road.
Giant red stag Exmoor Emperor shot dead Sam Jones 2010
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The creature, which weighed more than 135kg (300lb) and stood nearly 2.75 metres (9ft) tall, was killed close to the busy Tiverton to Barnstaple road in the middle of the annual rut.
Giant red stag Exmoor Emperor shot dead Sam Jones 2010
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In 1902 he retired to Barnstaple, where he lived till his death with his sister and niece, Mrs. and Miss Crosskey; but for the last ten years or so he was accustomed to spend two or three of the summer months at Downside.
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ATHOLIC scholarship, or more truly learning in the widest sense, has sustained a heavy loss by the death of Mr. Edmund Bishop, which took place at Barnstaple on Monday morning, February 19, after an illness of several weeks.
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ReutersLaura Robson was unable to build on her impressive victory over Heather Watson as she was knocked out of the Aegon GB Pro-Series tournament in Barnstaple at the quarter-final stage by Ekaterina Bychkova.
Sport news in brief 2011
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After the screening, one man tells me one of the floats featured in the Barnstaple fair film from the 1930s is still in use.
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