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Dunkeswell

1201 establishments in England1539 disestablishments in EnglandChristian monasteries established in the 13th centuryCistercian monasteries in EnglandMonasteries in Devon
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Dunkeswell is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England, located about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the town of Honiton. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,553, reducing to 1,361 at the 2011 Census. There is an electoral ward with the same name whose population at the above census was 2,000. The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Hemyock, Luppitt, Combe Raleigh, Awliscombe, Broadhembury and Sheldon.

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N 50.863 ° E -3.221 °
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EX14 4QZ East Devon
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Wolford Chapel
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