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nouna county in southwestern England

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nounred dual-purpose cattle of English origin

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He starts his journey in his home county of Devon, where he fishes for lunch and picks the perfect mussel from the local beach to serve up to his surfing pals.
It started with a sell-out gig at Maidenhead's Norden Farm Arts Centre and ends with a sold out RNLI fundraiser in their home county of Devon.
Brian Greenslade (President of the County of Devon) was elected again as Treasury Vice-President.
A new project has been launched in the UK that seeks to bring high speed broadband technology to the county of Devon for use by businesses.
(38) The increasingly puritan spirit of the county of Devon as a whole during this era 'comes out repeatedly in the Quarter Sessions records from the 1590s onwards'.
In Exeter in the county of Devon in the year of our Lord 1195, someone has taken on the Lord's work by bumping off the city's sinners.
(1) Tristram Risdon, The Chorographical Description, or Survey, of the County of Devon, with the City and County of Exeter, etc., London, 1811, p.
From 1941 he published articles about his mother's home county of Devon. He also came to know Leicester and Leicestershire better than most natives and published extensively about both, including the two-volume Leicester Past and Present (1974).
Part 1 (Chapters 1-2) examines the regional economy of the medieval county of Devon, of which Exeter was the administrative and ecclesiastical center, paying special attention to Devon's agriculture, industry, markets, and fairs.