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described the house in spring 1796 as "the seat of Col. Basset" and wrote of it that "The house exhibits itself handsomely though its situation (like that of Lord Heathfield's on the Exe ) seems to be too contiguous to the water. Nearly opposite to it was a large track of marsh and sand..." He later
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and during World War II, the parish church, St. Augustine's churchyard was enlarged to accommodate a war graves plot on new ground. The churchyard contains two burials of the First World War and 85 from the Second World War. It also has 38 post-war
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Chivenor was an estate within the parish and is immediately to the south of the village, which has a considerable military personnel only housing estate. Until 1970 the Chivenor part of the village had the first
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building and has three listed monuments in its churchyard. Parts date to about the 13th century. It has a bell-tower at the west end, with embattled parapet with crocketted corner pinnacles. The nave contains
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See typescript Church Notes by B. F. Cresswell, arranged by deaneries, held in the Westcountry Studies Library
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doorways and a five-bay arcade. The sundial over the south porch, dated 1795, is by John and Thomas Berry.
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of Heanton Punchardon, viewed from south at Penhill Point across the estuary of the River Taw at low tide
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Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800
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burials and one Italian war grave. In total it has 126 active military personnel graves.
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narrowly separated by a small field from edge of the main local village centre, that of
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and hotel, known in 2015 as the Braunton Inn. In 2019 known as Heanton Court.
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to the west. It is the location of Wrafton Laboratories, the division of
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in 1511. The church has monuments to the Ballyman family and to the
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Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.
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and it is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of
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Heanton Court looking north-west across the River Taw estuary:
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follows the course of the dismantled railway through Wrafton.
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estuary, about a mile south-east of the parish church. Rev.
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Heanton Punchardon is located in Devon
Devon
OS grid reference
SS5035
District
North Devon
Shire county
Devon
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
EX31
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