Tavistock
Tavistock is a town in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. It was the birthplace of Sir Francis Drake. The name comes from the River Tavy, which runs through the town.
- Type: Town with 12,700 residents
- Description: town in Devon, England
- Also known as: “Tavistokia” and “維斯托克”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tavistock Methodist Church and Mount Kelly School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grenofen.
Tavistock
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: West Devon District, Dartmoor, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.5496° or 50° 32′ 59″ north
Longitude
-4.1446° or 4° 8′ 41″ west
Population
12,700
Elevation
279 feet (85 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB TAS
Open location code
9C2QGVX4+R4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tavistock” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تافيستوك”
- Armenian: “Տավիստոկ”
- Asturian: “Tavistock”
- Basque: “Tavistock”
- Belarusian: “Тавістак”
- Bengali: “টাবিস্টক”
- Breton: “Tavistock”
- Bulgarian: “Тависток”
- Catalan: “Tavistock”
- Cebuano: “Tavistock”
- Chinese: “塔維斯托克”
- Chinese: “塔维斯托克”
- Cornish: “Tavistock”
- Czech: “Tavistock”
- Dutch: “Tavistock”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تافيستوك, ديفون”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تافيستوك”
- Esperanto: “Tavistock”
- French: “Tavistock”
- German: “Tavistock”
- Greek: “Τάβιστοκ”
- Gujarati: “તેવીસ્ટોક”
- Hebrew: “טביסטוק”
- Irish: “Tavistock, Devon”
- Irish: “Tavistock”
- Italian: “Tavistock”
- Japanese: “タヴィストック”
- Kannada: “ಟವಿಸ್ಟಾಕ್”
- Korean: “태비스톡”
- Ladin: “Tavistock”
- Latin: “Tavistochia”
- Latvian: “Tevistoka”
- Lithuanian: “Tavistokas”
- Luxembourgish: “Tavistock”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tavistock (Devon)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tavistock”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tavistock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tavistock”
- Norwegian: “Tavistock”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tæfingstoc”
- Ossetian: “Тависток”
- Persian: “تاویستوک، دوون”
- Persian: “تاویستوک”
- Polish: “Tavistock”
- Portuguese: “Tavistock”
- Romanian: “Tavistock”
- Russian: “Тависток”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tavistock, Devon”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tavistock”
- Silesian: “Tavistock”
- Slovenian: “Tavistock”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاویستوک، دوون”
- Spanish: “Tavistock”
- Swedish: “Tavistock”
- Tagalog: “Tavistock”
- Tamil: “டேவிஸ்டாக்”
- Telugu: “ట్వీస్టాక్”
- Urdu: “تاویستوک”
- Urdu: “ٹیوسٹاک”
- Volapük: “Tavistock”
- Welsh: “Tavistock”
- “Tavistock”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Highfield and Monksmead.
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