East Budleigh is a small village in

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. The villages of Yettington,

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, and

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lie to the west, north and east of East Budleigh, with the seaside town of

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about two miles south. Until the River Otter to the east silted up, the village was a market town and port; it was still being used by ships in the 15th century, according to John Leland.

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was born in nearby Hayes Barton in c.1552, and his parents are buried in All Saints churchyard in the village. The 14th-century church contains attractive pew ends including one bearing the Raleigh coat of arms. In 2006 a life-size bronze statue of Raleigh by sculptor

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was unveiled by the

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and is positioned at the top of the village close to the church. The cost of £30,000 was met by

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, and was unveiled in the week when new anti-smoking laws came into effect in England and Wales. Governor Roger Conant, founder of Salem, Massachusetts and the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born in East Budleigh in 1592 to Richard Conant. East Budleigh had a

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that was situated between the village and

, which was closed in 1967.

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