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Barnstaple , town (1991 pop. 24,490), Devon, SW England, on the Taw River estuary. The river is spanned there by a 16-arch stone bridge dating from the 13th cent. Barnstaple is the chief marketing town of north Devon and a tourist center. Gloves, pottery, bricks, tiles, furniture, and lace are manufactured. Barnstaple once carried on a large woolen export trade with the American colonies. John Gay, famous for The Beggar's Opera, was born in Barnstaple.

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Barnstaple, England/UK Bardanstapol, Barnestaple The original Anglo‐Saxon settlement by a ford on the Taw Estuary may be named after the Bearda family who guarded the crossing to which has been added ‘staple’, a reference to the area's main product which was wool. Alternatively, the name may mean ‘Post of the Battleaxe’ in reference to a meeting place here, from stapol ‘wooden post’.

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Barnstaple Devon. Beardastapol late 10th cent., Barnestaple 1086 (DB). ‘Post or pillar of the battle-axe’, probably signifying the site of a meeting-place. OE *bearde (genitive -an) + stapol.

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