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that the deaneries continue living units of county organization, in a sense which the hundreds have long ceased to fill ... Hartland Deanery includes not only the whole of the present Hartland Hundred, but the northern portion of Shebbear, over ...
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- Chope, Richard Pearse; Thornley, Isobel Dorothy (1940). The book of Hartland. The Devonshire Press.
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