Barnstaple (pop. 25,000) claims, on the strength of a charter granted in 830, to be the oldest town in England. Situated on the estuary of the River Taw, it is a good center from which to explore North Devon. There was a harbor here even in Norman times, the bridge across the river being erected in 1273. John Gay, the composer of "The Beggar's
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