UNCLE TOM COBLEY AND ALL
According to the late Rev. Sabino Baring-Gould, compiler of “Songs of tho West,” Tom Cobley, immortalised in. the j"' fine old Devonshire ■ song, “Widecombe Fair,” lived in a house near Yeoford * Junction, in the parish of Spreyton. His will was signed January 20, 1787. Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davey, Daniel Whiddon, and Harry Hawke lived at Sticklepath, a moorland village near Okekampton,. v
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 5
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