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== Parish History  ==
== Parish History  ==


WOODBURY (St. Swithin), a '''parish''', and formerly a market-town, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Topsham. The parish comprises 7304 acres, of which 734 are common or waste: the navigable river Exe bounds it on the west.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51423&strquery=Woodbury A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 649-652.</ref>  
WOODBURY (St. Swithin), a '''parish''', and formerly a market-town, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Topsham. The parish comprises 7304 acres, of which 734 are common or waste: the navigable river Exe bounds it on the west.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51423&amp;strquery=Woodbury#s19 A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 649-652. Date accessed: 27 August 2013.</ref>
 
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EXTON, a hamlet in Woodbury parish, Devon.<ref>Wilson, John M., ''[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=796880 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales]''  (1870-72) Date accessed: 27 August 2013.</ref><br>


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