Dalwood is a village and county parish in the

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district of the English county of

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. It is approximately away from the nearest town,

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, and away from

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. Dalwood can be accessed by the nearby A35 road. The village is placed within the

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Along with the nearby village of

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, until 1842 the village was a part of an outlier of the county of

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. Dalwood is a small village with a church, a primary school, village hall and public house. St Peter's church is 15th century and was

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in 1881. It has some early

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windows. Immediately to the right of the main door (and partly visible in photograph) is the grave of

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, a son of the Portuguese soldier and Prime Minister José Lucio Travassos Valdez, 1st Count of Bonfim. Nearby

Loughwood Meeting House Loughwood Meeting House is a historic Baptist chapel, south of the village of Dalwood, Devon in England. There was a meeting house on this site in 1653, although the current building may date from the late 17th century or early 18th ...

just north of the

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is an 18th-century Baptist chapel with an unaltered interior. Some landscaped gardens are opened to the public at nearby Burrow Farm. Home to the 800 year old thatched English Inn with original inglenook fireplace and flagstone floors, the tuckers arms are now esteemed for great food and hospitality

References

External links

Dalwood Village Website
Villages in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub