A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BROWNESTONE, a chapelry, with a village, in Modbury parish, Devon; near the South Devon railway, 3 miles N of Modbury. Statistics, with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Modbury, in the diocese of Exeter. The church was erected by the late Rev. Prebendary Oxenham; and is a bad specimen of modern Gothic.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Devon AncC |
| Place: | Brownston |
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