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Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Newton Abbot
Exeter land surveyor and antiquary, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, who lived at Blackslade in Widecombe-in-the-Moor and edited the 1876 parish book Things New and Old.
Sticklepath, Okehampton
Sticklepath Quaker Burying Ground is located in the middle of this historic Dartmoor village, tucked away in a peaceful setting behind Finch’s Foundry, on the banks of the tumbling Taw River.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“He listened, and distinctly heard one, in a louder tone than the rest, exclaim, "The oven's hot!" "Bake me a cake, then," instantly cried the hungry ploughman.”
Also on Our DartmoorRichard Nicholls Worth — Plymouth journalist, geologist and historian (1837-1896), author of histories of Devonport, Plymouth and Devon.
