UK Counties General Knowledge: Devon

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National Park, unhospitable moor and home to eponymous ponies.

Professional football team, who play at St. James Park.

The Motorway that brings you into the county.

Market town in the eastern corner of Devon, gave its name to a type of carpet.

Devon’s most populated city and historic naval port.

A famous dish of the county consisting of scones, jam and clotted cream. Its origins are disputed among other nearby counties!

Fortified wine, first produced by Benedictine monks and named after this Abbey

A D-Day live fire rehearsal, ‘Exercise Tiger’ turned in to a disaster on this beach in 1944.

The name of the main railway station in Exeter.

Elizabethan naval man, born in the town of Tavistock.

Thoroughbred horse racing venue located on the north bank of the River Teign.

This seaside town in the south of the county earned the nickname ‘The English Riviera’.

In 1919 this woman was elected the first ever female member of parliament to take office in the British Houses of Parliament. (In a constituency in South Devon).

This river is the longest in the county and forms the border between Devon and Cornwall.

Seat 2, Row 2 of the circle in the Torbay Picture House was the favourite seat of this famous crime novelist.

Exmoor National Park lies within Devon and which other county?

The only place name in the British Isles to have an exclamation mark as part of its name.

Born in Devon, this explorer died aged 43 in Antarctica.

Town known for its Black Swans, which were introduced from Western Australia.

Another famous naval man, born in East Budleigh, sailed to the Americas but was later arrested and executed to appease the Spanish.