Devon is a small

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community in

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with an approximate area of 152.79 square kilometers It is located 32 kilometers north of Dartmouth near the

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on the Old Guysborough Road ( Route 212). Its name is derived from

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in the

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by settler farmers from that community who worked on the Oakfield estate on

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