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Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Exeter and is the administrative centre of the South Hams District Council.
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh was an English statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1672 when he was created Baron Clifford.
Totnes is a Parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Conservative Anthony Mangnall. Mangnall defeated incumbent Dr Sarah Wollaston who had originally been elected as a Conservative but defected to the Liberal Democrats earlier that year.
South Hams was a county constituency based on the South Hams district of Devon. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election. The constituency covered a vast part of the English Riviera on the south Devon coast.
Devon was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Devon in England, with the exception of the city of Plymouth.
William Adams was a British merchant and Tory politician.
Totnes Priory was a priory at Totnes in south Devon, England.
The Exeter–Plymouth line, also called the South Devon Main Line, is a central part of the trunk railway line between London Paddington and Penzance in the southern United Kingdom. It is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line and runs from Exeter St Davids to Plymouth, from where it continues as the Cornish Main Line. It was one of the principal routes of the Great Western Railway which in 1948 became part of the Western Region of British Railways and are now part of the Network Rail system.
Sir Edward Giles (1566–1637) of Bowden House, Ashprington, near Totnes, Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1629.
From AD 1066, the feudal barony of Barnstaple was a large feudal barony with its caput at the town of Barnstaple in north Devon, England. It was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed in the Middle Ages. In 1236 it comprised 56 knight's fees or individual member manors. The feudal service owed for half the barony in 1274 was the provision to the royal army of two knights or four sergeants for forty days per annum, later commuted to scutage.
Bernard Smith of Totnes in Devon was MP for Totnes in 1558. He was mayor of Totnes in 1549–50 and c. 1565–6, and was escheator of Devon and Cornwall in 1567–8.
Robert French of Totnes, Devon was an English politician.
Nicholas Hayman, of Totnes; later of Dartmouth, Devon, was an English merchant and politician.
Simon Kelway, of Dawlish, Devon, was an English politician.
Christopher Buggin (1572–1603), of Totnes, Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Totnes in 1597.
Christopher Brooking, of Totnes, Devon, was an English politician.
Walter Dottyn, of Totnes, Devon, was an English politician.
Lawrence Adams, of Totnes and Dartington, Devon, was an English politician.
Richard Rodd, of Totnes, Devon and Rodd, Herefordshire, was a politician.
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- ↑ "MARSH, Simon, of Totnes, Devon. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
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