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Plaque on Mile End Cottage
Charles Dickens leased this house for his parents. The dates are the dates of Dickens' life, not the years when the parents lived here.
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 17 Nov 2010
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Mile End Cottage, Alphington
Charles Dickens leased this house for his parents.
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 17 Nov 2010
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Thatched cottage in Alphington
This C19 pink cottage with gothic windows is on the busy Church Road (B3123), a few yards from its junction with the A377, the road linking the A30 to Exeter city centre.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 10 Oct 2006
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Rural Exeter
Horses grazing near Alphington.
Image: © Richard Knights
Taken: 31 May 2001
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Construction work, Church Road, Alphington
This was formerly the site of a garage/motor dealer and is being developed as residential property
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 14 Sep 2019
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Bridge footings, Church Road, Alphington
The neatly shaped stone (from a local quarry at Pocombe
Image) once supported a railway bridge for the branch line to Ide and Longdown from Exeter. The A377 follows the route of the line to the A30. There was a railway halt on the line on the north side of Church Road, lost to road and other development
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 14 Sep 2019
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Church Road, Alphington
Image: © Rob Purvis
Taken: 4 Aug 2009
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Old Milestone by the B3123, Church Road, Alphington
Carved stone post by the B3123 (was A38), in parish of EXETER (EXETER District), Church Road, Alphington, between Blenheim Road and Legion Way, built into wall of garden, in recess, on South side of road. Exeter granite facets, erected by the Exeter turnpike trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
: 9 / Miles to / Chudleigh / 1 / Mile to / Exeter : : 177 / Miles / to / London : : 1 / Mile to / Exeter / 9 / Miles to / Chudleigh :
Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1440322
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1440322
Milestone Society National ID: DV_EXCH01.
Image: © Alan Rosevear
Taken: 16 Apr 2011
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Corner of Church Street and Blenheim Street, Alphington
Image: © Roger Cornfoot
Taken: 23 Oct 2008
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Mile End Cottage, Alphington
Charles Dickens leased this house on (the now very busy) Church Road for his parents from 1839-1842.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 10 Oct 2006
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