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Extract from the Barnstaple Travel Guides:
BARNSTAPLE
, at the head of the Taw estuary, makes an excellent springboard, being well connected to the resorts of Bideford Bay, Ilfracombe and Woolacombe, as well as to the western fringes of Exmoor. The town's centuries-old role as a marketplace is perpetuated in the daily bustle around the huge timber-framed
Pannier Market
off the High Street, alongside which runs
Butchers Row
, most of whose 33 archways are still occupied by butchers. Also off the High Street, in the pedestrianized area between that and Boutport Street, lies Barnstaple's
parish church
, itself worth a look, and the f...
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