BOVEY-TRACY, a market-town in the hundred of Teignbridge and county of Devon, 188 miles from London. It is remarkable for the production of a pipe-clay of great value in the potteries, and for a peculiar kind of coal. A court for the duchy of Lancaster is held here. The market is held on a Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1431, in 1811 to 1485, and in 1821 to 1685.
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