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BABBICOMBE, a chapelry in St. Marychurch parish, Devon; on the coast, 1½ mile NE of Torquay. It has a post office under Torquay, and an inn. It was recently a sequestered place, but has now a well-built and rapidly increasing village. The scenery is very fine. The living is a vicarage. The church is a splendid edifice, built in 1868.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Devon Ancient County |
| Place: | Babbacombe |
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