Barnstaple (gbr)

Barnstaple

Barnstaple ranks 2,279th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Winter Palace, Faenza, and Melrose, Massachusetts. Memorable people born in Barnstaple include John Gay, Snowy White, and Richard Eyre. Barnstaple has been the birth place of many writers, and soccer players. Barnstaple is located in United Kingdom.

Barnstaple is a river-port town and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The town lies at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool from which it earned great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, but its harbour silted up and other trades developed such as shipbuilding, foundries and sawmills. A Victorian market building survives, with a high glass and timber roof on iron columns. Read more on Wikipedia