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In it’s heyday, as well as its extensive lands the Order also possessed it’s own shipyards, ports and a considerable fleet, commercial as well as military. In England the Templars owned sizeable property at most large ports including major facilities at London, Bideford/Barnstaple, Bristol and Dover.

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

 The Templars were licensed to export their own wool and the Order ran a flourishing wool exporting trade from the Severn Estuary.

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

The coast of North Devon consists mainly of towering cliffs with few safe havens apart from the Taw -Torridge estuary. This area was still a major wool exporting centres well into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and it is extremely likely that the Templars had a presence there. 

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

"Temple preceptories in Europe, especially in England and Ireland, were generally located on the coast, or on navigable rivers."

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

The exact locations of all the Templar properties in North Devon will probably never be known but there is evidence of various Temple properties in the area and on both rivers

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

The Templars had a  considerable fleet and  wool exports from Britain were a very important part of the Templar economy. 

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

The ports of North Devon, Barnstaple / Bideford,  were especially  important in the export of wool.

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

The chapel of St. John at Tawstock (Barnstaple) (21 534296) was originally a chapel of the order of the Knights of the Temple a fact commemorated in the nearby farm of Templeton (Alexander de Sancto Johanne, a Templar, is named as living in Tawstock circa 1333

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

chapel of St. Margaret, Templeton, near Witheridge.

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

The Inn sign the Lamb is often an Abbreviation of 'Lamb and Flag' and often denotes the site of an earlier chapel of the Templars. 

The Lamb in Bideford is situated at the top of a hill, near an important crossroads on the pilgrim route to Hartland, close by is an old graveyard.

The Knights Templar in Devon; from The Knights Templar published by Mystic Realms

Across the South West the Templars had several major properties including the priory of St. Michael's Mount, Tavistock Abbey, the church at St. Buryan in Cornwall and the parish of Temple.

 

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