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    Bagtor is a historic estate in the parish of Ilsington in Devon, England. It was the birthplace of John Ford (1586-c. 1639) the playwright and poet. The...
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    Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, which his male heirs successively made their seat. The Elizabethan mansion of the Fords survives today at Bagtor as...
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    1669–70 and 1672–73. Ford was the eldest son of Henry Ford (d.1616) of Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, Devon by his wife Katharine Drake, daughter...
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    village's most famous resident was the playwright John Ford, who was born at Bagtor House. Today, the village has a pub (The Carpenters Arms) a hotel (The Ilsington...
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    married Penelope Tothill, daughter and heiress of Rev. Thomas Tothill of Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington in Devon, by whom he had issue Rev. Richard Lane...
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  • manors of Webbery, Greenslinch, Stoketeignhead, Rocombe, Ogwell, Holbeam, Bagtor, Ideford, Staplehill, Buckland-in-the-Moor, Aller and possibly Northleigh...
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    Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, which his male heirs successively made their seat. The Elizabethan mansion of the Fords survives today at Bagtor as...
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    The Sig forming out of marshy ground near Bagtor Down....
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    features surveyed at 1:500. A 60 ft (18 m) diameter wheel was installed at Bagtor mine in 1862. fms. is an abbreviation for fathoms. A fathom is equal to...
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    plunge-pool built in 1763, fed by a stream. Lord Ashburton also had a seat at Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, on his Dartmoor estate about 6 miles north-east...
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