Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bickleigh

Bickleigh.-- par., N. Devon, on river Exe, 4 miles S. of Tiverton, 1835 ac., pop. 233; P.O.; the birthplace of Bampfylde Moore Carew (1693-1770), king of the Gipsies, an eccentric mendicant.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bickleigh AP/CP       Devon AncC
Place: Bickleigh

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