Buckfastleigh

Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district, in , England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park.
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  • Type: Town with 3,630 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Buckfastleigh, Devon” and “East Buckfastleigh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buckfast Abbey and Reed’s Cave.

Church
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forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at , near Buckfastleigh, , England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018.

Cave
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Reed's cave is a in Higher Kiln Quarry near Buckfastleigh, , . It has many formations including the unique Little Man formation, which is beyond Easter Chamber.

Railway station
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is situated on the South Devon Railway, a heritage railway in , England. It serves the town of Buckfastleigh.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ashburton and Buckfast.

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is a town on the south-southeastern edge of in , England, adjacent to the A38. The town is 20 miles northeast of and 17 miles southwest of .

Village
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is a small village near Buckfastleigh in Teignbridge district, , England, on the bank of the . It is the home of , an active Benedictine monastery, which gave its name to Tonic Wine, originally made there, and to the bee, a bee breed originally developed at Abbey.

Village
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is a small village in the county of , England. It lies on the River Mardle about 2 miles north west of the town of Buckfastleigh. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Buckfastleigh.

Buckfastleigh

Latitude
50.4813° or 50° 28′ 53″ north
Longitude
-3.7781° or 3° 46′ 41″ west
Population
3,630
Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BFG
Open location code
9C2RF6JC+GQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28375331
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654416
Wiki­data ID
Q999649
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Buckfastleigh” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Basque: “Buckfasleigh”
  • Cebuano: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Chinese: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Chinese: “巴克法斯特”
  • Chinese: “巴克法斯特利”
  • Dutch: “Buckfastleigh”
  • French: “Buckfastleigh”
  • German: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Irish: “Buckfastleigh Thoir”
  • Irish: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Italian: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Italian: “East Buckfastleigh”
  • Ladin: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Latin: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Latin: “Buffestra”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Persian: “باکفستلی”
  • Polish: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Romanian: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buckfastleigh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باکفستلی”
  • Spanish: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Swedish: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Turkish: “Buckfastleigh”
  • Urdu: “بک فاسٹ لے”
  • Welsh: “Buckfastleigh”
  • “Buckfastleigh”

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