Buckfast Abbey and Methodist Chapel - geograph

Buckfast is a small village near Buckfastleigh in

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district,

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, England, on the bank of the

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. It is the home of Buckfast Abbey, an active

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monastery, which gave its name to

Buckfast Tonic Wine Buckfast Tonic Wine is a caffeinated alcoholic drink consisting of fortified wine with added caffeine, originally made by monks at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England. It is now made under a licence granted by the monastery, and distributed by J. ...

, originally made there, and to the Buckfast bee, a bee breed originally developed at Buckfast Abbey. Buckfast is in the

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of Buckfastleigh, which has a town council. There is a Methodist chapel, built in 1881, which is used for joint Anglican and Methodist services every Sunday. The village has a co-educational Roman Catholic primary school, St Mary's Catholic Primary School. There were woollen mills in the village, powered by the River Dart. A large mill was taken over in the 1950s by

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. When the company went into administration in 2013 the Abbey acquired the Mill premises. The village has a post office, which relocated in 2015 into the Mill Shop.

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Buckfastleigh
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(Buckfast was in this parish) Villages in Devon Buckfastleigh {{Devon-geo-stub