Bovey Tracey
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 36 ′ N , 3 ° 40 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SX817784 | ||
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| Residents | 6929 (status: 2001) | ||
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| Post town | Newton Abbot | ||
| prefix | 01626 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
Bovey Tracey is a small town in the district of Teignbridge in the southwestern English county of Devon . The location of the little town with almost 7000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Dartmoor prompted the residents to advertise at the city limits with the slogan "The Gateway to the Moor" (The Gateway to the Moor). The local population only calls their town "Bovey" (pronounced "Buvvy").
Bovey Tracey is near the market town of Moretonhampstead . About halfway between the two is the small village of North Bovey.
Bovey Tracey is twinned with Le Molay-Littre in Normandy ( France ).
history
Bovey Tracey is an old Saxon settlement and was identified as "Boffa" as early as 500. The town got its second name from the "de Tracey", a Norman landlord family who settled here after the Normans conquered England in 1066. A member of the family, William de Tracey , was implicated in the 1170 assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral . It is believed that William de Tracey had the parish church of St. Peter, St. Paul and St. Thomas of Canterbury built as a penance for the murder. The church still stands today and has had an uninterrupted line of vicars since 1258.
During the English Civil War in 1646 Royalist troops were attacked at the local inn by members of Oliver Cromwell's Roundhead Army ("Roundheads" was the nickname of the Cromwell Parliamentary Army). If tradition is to be believed, the royalists escaped by throwing coins out of the windows into the underpaid Roundhead troops as a distraction. The next day there was a battle at nearby Bovey Heath, which resulted in a victory for Cromwell's army.
The Cromwells name still lives on in Bovey Tracey in two ways. There is the popular pub The Cromwell Arms and a nearby stone arch, which is (incorrectly) referred to here as Cromwell's Arch . In truth, it is the remains of a monastery that used to be on this site.
The station of Bovey Tracey was opened on June 26, 1866 on the western edge of the city by the new "Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway". Passenger traffic stopped on February 28, 1959. Freight trains ran here until July 6, 1970.
useful information
- The Bovey Tracey Heritage Center in the old Bovey Railway Station.
- House of Marbles: Free entry to visit the old pottery with sale of sculptures, sculpture production and demonstrations by glassblowers.
- Bovey is the seat of Devon's Chamber of Crafts.
- The seat of the administrative authority of the Dartmoor National Park is in Bovey.
- The Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve is located on Bovey Heath.
- The church has a 14th century tower, many 15th century carvings, and a gate which Arthur Mee described as "one of the finest in this county of fine gates".
Sports
Bovey Tracey is known in cycling circles as the starting point of the Dartmoor Devil Cycling Tour, which takes place annually at the end of October. The destination of the over 100 km long cycle tour, which criss-crosses Dartmoor and overcomes a total difference in altitude of 2000 m, is in Manaton near Bovey Tracey .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Etched on Devons Memory ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Devon County Council website. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
