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The Carnarvon Arms hotel in Brushford was built by the earl of Carnarvon to serve his new market and benefit from the recently completed railway be

Signatures and marks of Brushford parishioners agreeing to stand surety for the father of an illegitimate child 1649 [1648 old style].  

Brushford parish lies outside the Exmoor National Park but is closely bound to it through its neighbours Dulverton and East Anstey.

Brushford church, Lutyens chapel

Volunteers surveying a farmyard at Broford, Dulverton

Bilbower, High Street, a doctor's surgery in 2008

19th-century estate houses at Battleton

Looking across the Barle Valley from Ashway to Row Lane, Hawkridge, on skyline and Birchcleeve wood.

This stream, a tributary of the Devon Yeo and the boundary between Molland and Twitchen, may have been the ancient western boundary of the Angl

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