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Bideford

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Bideford , town (1985 est. 12,300), Devon, SW England, on the Torridge estuary. Formerly a major seaport, it still maintains some foreign trade (timber is imported) and has a boatbuilding industry. Tourism and the manufacture of gloves and concrete products are other important industries. Bideford supplied ships used in the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) and was a port of embarkation for colonists going to America. It also participated in the colonial tobacco and salt-fish trade. A 24-arch stone bridge dating from the 15th cent. spans the Torridge estuary.

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Bideford

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Bideford Devon. Bedeford 1086 (DB). Possibly ‘ford at the stream called Bȳd’. Celtic river-name (of uncertain origin and meaning) + OE ēa + ford. Alternatively the first element may be OE byden ‘vessel, tub’, also ‘hollow, deep valley’.

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