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Extract from the Tavistock Travel Guides:
The main town of the western moor,
TAVISTOCK
owes its distinctive Victorian appearance to the building boom that followed the discovery of copper deposits here in 1844. Originally, however, this market and Stannary town on the River Tavy grew around what was once the West Country's most important Benedictine abbey, established in the eleventh century. Some scanty remnants survive in the churchyard of
St Eustace
, a mainly fifteenth-century building with stained glass from William Morris's studio in the south aisle.
Tavistock's
tourist office
, in the town hall on Bedford Square (E...
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