Tavistock
Tavistock is a town in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. It was the birthplace of Sir Francis Drake. The name comes from the River Tavy, which runs through the town. Tavistock Parish Church…Photo: Ron Strutt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Mount Kelly School
School
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Kelly School is a co-educational private day and boarding school in the English public school tradition for pupils from 3 to 18, in Tavistock, Devon.
Tavistock
- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: town in Devon, England
- Categories: civil parish, market town and locality
- Location: West Devon District, Dartmoor, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.5496° or 50° 32' 59" northLongitude
-4.1446° or 4° 8' 41" westPopulation
12,300Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)United Nations Location Code
GB TASOpen Location Code
9C2QGVX4+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1622774464OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2636174Wikidata ID
Q668262Tavistock Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: تافيستوك
- Armenian: Տավիստոկ
- Asturian: Tavistock
- Belarusian: Тавістак
- Bengali: টাবিস্টক
- Breton: Tavistock
- Bulgarian: Тависток
- Catalan: Tavistock
- Cebuano: Tavistock
- Chinese: Tavistock
- Chinese: 塔維斯托克
- Chinese: 塔维斯托克
- Chinese: 維斯托克
- Cornish: Tavistock
- Czech: Tavistock
- Dutch: Tavistock
- Egyptian Arabic: تافيستوك, ديفون
- Egyptian Arabic: تافيستوك
- English: Tavistock, Devon
- Esperanto: Tavistock
- French: Tavistock
- German: Tavistock
- Greek: Τάβιστοκ
- Gujarati: તેવીસ્ટોક
- Hebrew: טביסטוק
- Irish: Tavistock, Devon
- Irish: Tavistock
- Italian: Tavistock
- Japanese: タヴィストック
- Kannada: ಟವಿಸ್ಟಾಕ್
- Korean: 태비스톡
- Latin: Tavistochia
- Latin: Tavistokia
- Lithuanian: Tavistokas
- Luxembourgish: Tavistock
- Min Nan Chinese: Tavistock (Devon)
- Norwegian: Tavistock
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tavistock
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Tavistock
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tæfingstoc
- Ossetian: Тависток
- Persian: تاویستوک، دوون
- Polish: Tavistock
- Portuguese: Tavistock
- Romanian: Tavistock
- Russian: Тависток
- Serbo-Croatian: Tavistock, Devon
- Serbo-Croatian: Tavistock
- Silesian: Tavistock
- Slovenian: Tavistock
- South Azerbaijani: تاویستوک، دوون
- Spanish: Tavistock
- Swedish: Tavistock
- Tagalog: Tavistock
- Tamil: டேவிஸ்டாக்
- Telugu: ట్వీస్టాక్
- Urdu: تاویستوک
- Urdu: ٹیوسٹاک
- Volapük: Tavistock
- Welsh: Tavistock
Other Places Named Tavistock
Localities in the Area
- Downhouse FarmLocality
- AbbotsfieldNeighbourhood
- The TorsNeighbourhood
- WhitchurchHamlet
- MiddlemoorHamlet
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Tavistock. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.