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North Tawton and Winkleigh Hundred

ancient administrative unit of Devon, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ7056944 ↗
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North Tawton and Winkleigh Hundred was the name of one of thirty two ancient administrative units of Devon, England. The status of Winkleigh is uncertain. Until the 18th century, it was a separate hundred but in the nineteenth century it became part of North Tawton and was known as the Hundred of North Tawton and Winkleigh.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “North Tawton and Winkleigh Hundred” is ancient administrative unit of Devon, England. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through North, Tawton and Winkleigh, not as a finished interpretation.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7056944. Authority coordinates are 50.830, -3.870. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “North Tawton and Winkleigh Hundred” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.