What is Tavistock?
[[File:Tavistock town centre.jpg|thumb|The town centre]] '''Tavistock''' is a town in [[Devon]], England, {{convert|24|km|mi|1}} north of [[Plymouth, Devon|Plymouth]]. Tavistock is a market town in [[West Devon]], [[England]] on the [[River Tavy]]. 11,018 people live there.<ref name=census>{{citation|author=Office for National Statistics|title=2001 Census, statistics for Tavistock Parish|publisher=Office for National Statistics|date=2001}}</ref> It was in existence in the year 961, when the Abbey of Tavistock was founded by a rich [[Anglo-Saxon England|Anglo-Saxon nobleman]]. The most famous person from Tavistock is Sir [[Francis Drake]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Michael|title=In Drake's Wake - The Early Voyages|publisher=Paul Mould Publishing|year=2005|isbn=978-1904959212}}</ref> Tavistock is on the edge of [[Dartmoor]], on the A386 road. In the centre of the town is Bedford Square, around which are St Eustachius's Church and the ruins of the Abbey, the Town Hall, and the Pannier Market buildings behind the Town Hall. ==References== {{reflist}} {{multistub|geo|UK}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Towns in Devon]] [[Category:West Devon]]