๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Furniture Designer George Llewellyn Morris is associated with Barnstaple.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Barnstaple is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the lowest crossing point of the River Taw flowing into the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool. Great wealth ensued. Later it imported Irish wool, but its harbour silted up and other industries developed, such as shipbuilding, foundries and sawmills. A Victorian market building survives, with a high glass and timber roof on iron columns. The town area includes nearby settlements such as Bishop's Tawton, Fremington and Landkey.
1Economy North Devon is some distance from Britain's traditional areas of industrial activity and population. In the late 1970s it gained several industrial firms due to the availability of central government grants for opening factories and operating them on low or zero levels of local taxation. This was scarcely successful, with few lasting beyond the few years that grants were available. One success was the manufacturing of generic medicines by Cox Pharmaceuticals (now branded Allergan), which moved in 1980 from a site in Brighton, Sussex. A lasting effect on the town has been the development and expansion of industrial estates at Seven Brethren, Whiddon Valley and Pottington.
Whilst the 1989 opening of the improved A361 connection to the motorway network assisted trade in ways such as weekend tourism, it was detrimental to some distribution businesses. These had previously seen the town as a base for local distribution, a need removed when travelling time to the M5 motorway was roughly halved.
With Barnstaple as the main shopping area for North Devon, retail work contributes to the economy. There are chain stores in the town centre and in the Roundswell Business Park, on the western fringe of the town. They include Tesco, with a hypermarket and superstore, and Sainsbury's Lidl and Asda supermarkets. Multi-million pound redevelopment round the former Leaderflush Shapland works at Anchorwood Bank is creating a conservation area near the River Taw, hundreds of new homes, a retail area of shops, restaurants and leisure facilities. Asda also runs a petrol filling station.
By far the largest employer in the region is local and central government, particularly the Royal Marines Base Chivenor, 3 miles (5ย km) west of the town, and North Devon District Hospital, 1 mile (1.6ย km) to the north.
In 2005 unemployment in North Devon was 1.8โ2.4 per cent, while median per capita wage for North Devon was 73 per cent of the UK national average. The level of work in the informal or casual sector is high, partly during seasonal tourism. By 2018 unemployment in North Devon had fallen from a 2010 high to 1.2 per cent, while median weekly full-time pay stood at ยฃ440 per week and average housing prices at ยฃ230,000. The number of businesses registered has risen by 370 since 2010 to 4,895. The year 2018 also saw government investment through Coastal Community grants and Housing Infrastructure funds ยฃ83 million to upgrade the North Devon Link Road.
1Barnstaple has a population of over 32,411 people. Barnstaple also forms the centre of the wider North Devon District which has a population of over 97,145 people.
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๐บ๐ธ Barnstable, USA ๐ฎ๐น Susa, Italy ๐ซ๐ท Trouville-sur-Mer, France ๐ฉ๐ช Uelzen, Germany๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Furniture Designer George Llewellyn Morris is associated with Barnstaple.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Furniture Designer Henry Percival Shapland is associated with Barnstaple. Shapland was a conscientious objector in World War One as part of the Friends Ambulance Unit General Service.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect William White is associated with Barnstaple. He is also known to have designed churches in South Africa and Madagascar.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Decorative Artist/Wallpaper/Furniture/Textile Designer Owen William Davis is associated with Barnstaple. Although he trained as an architect, Davis worked primarily as a decorative artist and designer.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect John Heald is associated with Barnstaple. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1936.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Crawley 51.1
๐ฉ๐ช Langenfeld 51.112
๐ต๐ฑ Skarลผysko-Kamienna 51.117
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Hythe 51.072
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Salisbury 51.07
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Folkestone 51.067
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Winchester 51.063
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Horsham 51.062
๐ต๐ฑ Starachowice 51.058
๐ช๐ธ Torrelavega -4.049
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Hamilton -4.039
๐จ๐ฎ Treichville -4.014
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Motherwell -3.985
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Swansea -3.941
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Stirling -3.937
๐ฒ๐ฆ Al Hoceima -3.936
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Aberystwyth -4.085
๐ซ๐ท Chรขteaulin -4.091
๐ช๐ธ Vรฉlez-Mรกlaga -4.1
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Bangor -4.128
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Plymouth -4.142
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Kirkintilloch -4.155
Locations Near: Barnstaple -4.06,51.08
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Bideford -4.207,51.02 d: 12.3
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Swansea -3.941,51.623 d: 61
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Port Talbot -3.827,51.61 d: 61.2
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Tiverton -3.488,50.903 d: 44.6
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Exeter -3.533,50.723 d: 54.3
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Neath -3.8,51.663 d: 67.3
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Bridgend -3.578,51.507 d: 58.1
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Newton Abbot -3.61,50.529 d: 68.9
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Plymouth -4.142,50.37 d: 79.2
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Llanelli -4.193,51.787 d: 79.1
Antipodal to: Barnstaple 175.94,-51.08
๐ณ๐ฟ Dunedin 170.474,-45.884 d: 19311.1
๐ณ๐ฟ Christchurch 172.617,-43.517 d: 19137.8
๐ณ๐ฟ Canterbury 171.58,-43.543 d: 19115.3
๐ณ๐ฟ Invercargill 168.373,-46.413 d: 19256.1
๐ณ๐ฟ Queenstown 168.658,-45.033 d: 19152.8
๐ณ๐ฟ Wellington 174.767,-41.283 d: 18922
๐ณ๐ฟ Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18915.5
๐ณ๐ฟ Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18915.5
๐ณ๐ฟ Upper Hutt 175.05,-41.133 d: 18907