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Tavistock

town in Devon, England
Place town Q668262

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, civil parish, market town[4][5]
Official website
www.tavistock.gov.uk[12]

Location

Country
United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of England[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 50.550°, -4.144°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
West Devon, Devon[2]

Population and size

Population
12k (11k–13k, n=3)[13][14][15]

Codes

Local dialing code
01822[9]
Postal code
PL19[8]
More facts +6
Capital of
West Devon[18]
Authority
Tavistock Town Council[11]
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16][17]
Historic county
Devon[19]
OS grid reference
SX480740[10]
Twinned administrative body
Celle, Pontivy[6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Tavistock en Tavistock, Devon ar تافيستوك el Τάβιστοκ fa تاویستوک، دوون he טביסטוק ja タヴィストック ko 태비스톡 ru Тависток zh 塔維斯托克 zh 維斯托克 zh-hans 塔维斯托克
🔖 Identifiers · 36
VIAF cluster ID
123196012
Library of Congress authority ID
n83186391
GND ID
7711246-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Tavistock town centre.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
cjkm56d0jelt
BBC Things ID
c61a776c-0383-48f3-bfd0-5b102f4c8329
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Devon/Tavistock/
Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID
place/2662
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
4a707ec3-72f5-4ba1-ae36-d95abd4114de
FAST ID
1225970
FactGrid item ID
four-wheel drive
Freebase ID
/m/021qhp
Show all 36 identifiers +24
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2609479
GSS code (2011)
E04003354
GeoNames ID
2636174, 7293375
KEPN ID
Devon/Tavistock
Museum-digital place ID
43771
MusicBrainz area ID
d747f701-911e-43bd-96bc-ceccd0dcbe50
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559961205171
OpenDomesday settlement ID
SX4874/tavistock
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3600281
Quora topic ID
Tavistock-Devon-1
SNARC ID
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
Slovak National Library (VIAF) ID
vtls012667248
Survey of English Place-Names ID
53284f38b47fc4097e001a3f
TOID
7000000000022871, 4000000074558456
Topic's main category
Category:Tavistock
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
525169
UN/LOCODE
GBTAS
Vision of Britain place ID
42
Vision of Britain unit ID
10169999
WOEID
37027
Who's on First ID
101852555
Wikishire article ID
Tavistock
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJtCGwJWgYYJvCrDx4vCQq
Yale LUX ID
place/c5bfc144-7275-49e1-9a95-9b33fa28bcd0

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🔗 Connections
People born here 11
Francis Drake, David McKee, Pete Quaife, Andy Hicks, John Surman, William Browne, James Withycombe, Ada Hitchins +3 more
Country 4
United Kingdom, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Instance of 3
town, civil parish, market town
Contained subdivisions 2
Whitchurch, Morwellham Quay
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Devon, West Devon
Twinned administrative body 2
Celle, Pontivy
← Twinned administrative body 2
Celle, Pontivy
Capital of 1
West Devon
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Tavistock
FactGrid item ID 1
four-wheel drive
Located in time zone 1
UTC±00:00
SNARC ID 1
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
Topic's main category 1
Category:Tavistock
← Capital 1
West Devon
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Tavistock
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Tavistock
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Summary

Tavistock is a town[1].

Related Entities

Francis Drake Kingdom of England Kingdom of Great Britain Pontivy United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . celle.de. celle.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → West Devon, Devon
    Official website → https://www.tavistock.gov.uk/
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 50.55003, 'lon': -4.14424}
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Tavistock
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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