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The Devonshire Dumpling

Morchard Road is a small hamlet in Down St Mary civil parish, mid Devon, UK. It has a pub, the Devonshire Dumpling. It also has a railway station on the Tarka Line running from Exeter to Barnstaple.

Morchard Road takes its name from the nearby settlement of Morchard Bishop. [1]

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References

  1. Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521168557., s.v. Morchard (2).

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