Tavistock, a market-town of Devon, situated at the western edge of Dartmoor, on the Tavy, 11 m. N. of Plymouth; has remains of a 10th-century Benedictine abbey, a guild-hall, grammar school, &c.; is one of the old stannary towns, and still largely depends for its prosperity on the neighbouring tin, copper, and arsenic mines.
Population (circa 1900) given as 6,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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