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Clannaborough is a parish in the county of Devon, England, situated about miles north-west of the town of
Crediton Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, about north west of Exeter and around from the M5 motorway ...
and 11 miles north-east of Okehampton. No village exists, only scattered farmhouses, including Clannaborough Barton and the bartons of Appledore and Walson, all three estates listed in the Domesday Book of 1066. Walson was the birthplace of
Christopher Lethbridge Christopher Lethbridge may refer to: * Christopher Lethbridge (Australian politician) (1883 –1981), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Christopher Lethbridge (mayor) (died 1670), mayor of Exeter in 1660 * Christopher Lethbridg ...
(d.1670), Mayor of Exeter in 1660, who was lord of the manor of nearby Bow (alias
Nymet Tracy Bow () is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England, about west of Crediton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,093 practically unchanged at the 2011 Census. There is an adjoining hamlet of Nymet ...
). The parish church is dedicated to
St Petrock Saint Petroc or Petrock ( lat-med, Petrocus; cy, Pedrog; french: link=no, Perreux; ) was a British prince and Christian saint. Probably born in South Wales, he primarily ministered to the Britons of Devon (Dewnans) and Cornwall (Kernow) then f ...
.
Pevsner, Nikolaus Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...
& Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.266


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Villages in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub