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Answer
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National Park, unhospitable moor and home to eponymous ponies.
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Dartmoor
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Professional football team, who play at St. James Park.
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Exeter City
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The Motorway that brings you into the county.
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M5
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Market town in the eastern corner of Devon, gave its name to a type of carpet.
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Axminster
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Devon’s most populated city and historic naval port.
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Plymouth
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A famous dish of the county consisting of scones, jam and clotted cream. Its origins are disputed among other nearby counties!
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Cream Tea
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Fortified wine, first produced by Benedictine monks and named after this Abbey
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Buckfast
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A D-Day live fire rehearsal, ‘Exercise Tiger’ turned in to a disaster on this beach in 1944.
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Slapton Sands
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The name of the main railway station in Exeter.
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Exeter St. Davids
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Elizabethan naval man, born in the town of Tavistock.
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Sir Francis Drake
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Thoroughbred horse racing venue located on the north bank of the River Teign.
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Newton Abbot
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This seaside town in the south of the county earned the nickname ‘The English Riviera’.
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Torquay
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In 1919 this woman was elected the first ever female member of parliament to take office in the British Houses of Parliament. (In a constituency in South Devon).
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Nancy Astor
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This river is the longest in the county and forms the border between Devon and Cornwall.
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River Tamar
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Seat 2, Row 2 of the circle in the Torbay Picture House was the favourite seat of this famous crime novelist.
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Agatha Christie
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Exmoor National Park lies within Devon and which other county?
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Somerset
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The only place name in the British Isles to have an exclamation mark as part of its name.
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Westward Ho!
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Born in Devon, this explorer died aged 43 in Antarctica.
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Robert Falcon Scott
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Town known for its Black Swans, which were introduced from Western Australia.
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Dawlish
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Another famous naval man, born in East Budleigh, sailed to the Americas but was later arrested and executed to appease the Spanish.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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