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| East Budleigh | |
|---|---|
 High Street, East Budleigh | |
  East Budleigh Location withinDevon | |
| OS grid reference | SY069842 |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BUDLEIGH SALTERTON |
| Postcode district | EX9 |
| Dialling code | 01395 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
| 50°39′00″N3°19′00″W / 50.65°N 3.316667°W /50.65; -3.316667 | |
East Budleigh is a small village inEast Devon,England. The villages ofYettington,Colaton Raleigh, andOtterton lie to the west, north and east of East Budleigh, with the seaside town ofBudleigh Salterton about two miles south. Until theRiver Otter to the east silted up, the village was a market town and port; it was still being used by ships in the 15th century, according toJohn Leland.[1]
Sir Walter Raleigh was born in nearby Hayes Barton in c.1552, and his parents are buried in All Saints churchyard in the village. The 14th-century church contains attractive pew ends including one bearing the Raleigh coat of arms.
In 2006 a life-size bronze statue of Raleigh by sculptorVivien Mallock was unveiled by theDuke of Kent and is positioned at the top of the village close to the church. The cost of £30,000 was met byBritish American Tobacco,[2] and was unveiled in the week when new anti-smoking laws came into effect in England and Wales.[3]
GovernorRoger Conant, founder of Salem, Massachusetts and the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born in East Budleigh in 1592 to Richard Conant.
East Budleigh had arailway station that was situated between the village andOtterton, which was closed in 1967.
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