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    Tavistock Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon, is a ruined Benedictine abbey in Tavistock, Devon. The Abbey was surrendered in...
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    when Tavistock Abbey, whose ruins lie in the centre of the town, was founded. Its most famous son is Sir Francis Drake. The area around Tavistock (formerly...
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  • Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tavistock" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 457–458. "Tavistock Abbey". Historic England...
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  • she lived at Woburn Abbey. Until her husband succeeded to the Dukedom in 2002, she was better known as the Marchioness of Tavistock. Henrietta Joan Tiarks...
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  • second marriage, the future Edward the Confessor. Eadwig was buried at Tavistock Abbey in Devon, a place built by his uncle Ordwulf. House of Wessex family...
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    at Plymstock. After a race between the monks of Tavistock Abbey and the men of Plymstock, the Abbey won. The tomb was virtually destroyed in 1812 by...
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    suggest that the tradition of eating bread with cream and jam existed at Tavistock Abbey in Devon in the 11th century. The Oxford English Dictionary reports...
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    gave it as an endowment to Tavistock Abbey. Ordwulf's holding of Orleigh was recorded in an ancient cartulary of Tavistock Abbey, now lost, but quoted from...
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    largest settlement in the far west. In about 1066-8 she gave it to Tavistock Abbey, which held it until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. According...
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  • to Ruan Lanihorne and Tavistock. In 974, Ordulf, Earl of Devon, established the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock. On 981, the relics of...
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