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  Churchill Location within Devon | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
Churchill is a hamlet [1] in civil parish of East Down, in the North Devon district, in Devon, England, and is located near the village of East Down, and the town of Barnstaple.
The author Nancy Phelan describes her time in the area in The Swift Foot in Time. [2]
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