Coleford, Devon
Coleford is a small hamlet in Mid-Devon, England.[1] [2] It includes a pub, The New Inn with their resident parrot of over 40 years Captain, and also has a park.
Coleford Junction at nearby Penstone is the place where the Tarka Line from Crediton to Barnstaple splits from the later Dartmoor line to Okehampton.
History
[edit ]Charles I came through Coleford on 27 July 1644 on his way to Bow, where he spent a night during the English Civil War. At that time Coleford village was on the main highway from Cornwall to Devon. There is a tradition that the King reviewed his horse troop, from the "Porched House", a building which dates from this time.
Henry Kingsley's novel The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn is set partly in the village.
References
[edit ]- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 191 Okehampton & North Dartmoor (Crediton & Bovey Tracey) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 9780319231821.
- ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
External links
[edit ]Media related to Coleford, Devon at Wikimedia Commons
50°47′47′′N 3°44′38′′W / 50.79639°N 3.74389°W / 50.79639; -3.74389
