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| | Dartmoor - BOVEY TRACEY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | THE three little towns on the north-eastern boundary of the Moor, Chagford, Moreton Hampstead and Bovey Tracey, are the first to which the visitor is usually introduced, as they are nearest to Exeter and therefore to the great bulk of the Kingdom. |
 | | Bovey Tracey, which must not be confounded with North Bovey, close to Moreton Hampstead (Bovey is always pronounced Buvvy, and invariably means Bovey Tracey), is on the little river Bovey, which flows into the Teign lower down. |
 | | Bovey is at the edge of Bovey Heath, or Bovey Heathfield, famous for its production of valuable clays, which are utilized at local potteries, notably the well-known Devon Pottery works, established in 1772, and also for its beds of lignite, or Bovey coal. |
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