Buckfast Explained

Buckfast is a small village near Buckfastleigh in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, on the bank of the River Dart.^[1] It is the home of Buckfast Abbey, an active Benedictine monastery, which gave its name to Buckfast Tonic Wine, originally made there, and to the Buckfast bee, a bee breed originally developed at Buckfast Abbey.

Buckfast is in the civil parish of Buckfastleigh, which has a town council.^[2]

There is a Methodist chapel, built in 1881, which is used for joint Anglican and Methodist services every Sunday.^[3]

The village has a co-educational Roman Catholic primary school, St Mary's Catholic Primary School.^[4]

There were woollen mills in the village, powered by the River Dart. A large mill was taken over in the 1950s by Axminster Carpets. When the company went into administration in 2013 the Abbey acquired the Mill premises.^{[5] [6]}

The village has a post office, which relocated in 2015 into the Mill Shop.^[7]

External links

• Buckfastleigh: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI (Buckfast was in this parish)

50.4923°N -3.779°W

Notes and References

1. News: Dyckhoff . Tom . The Guardian . Let's move to Buckfast and Buckfastleigh, Devon . 24 April 2015 . 7 August 2016.
2. Web site: Home page. Buckfastleigh Town Council. 8 August 2016. The historic mill town of Buckfastleigh and the neighbouring abbey village of Buckfast ....
3. Web site: Buckfast Methodist Church. Methodist Heritage. 7 August 2016.
4. Web site: home page . St Mary's Catholic Primary School . 7 August 2016.
5. News: 1,000 years of business at Buckfast where the latest focus is on new jobs for factory site. 8 August 2016. Western Morning News. 15 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029130208/http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/1-000-years-business-Buckfast-latest-focus-new/story-19658578-detail/story.html. 29 October 2013. dead.
6. Web site: Buckfast Spinning Mill. Abandoned Britain. 8 August 2016. November 2013.
7. News: Ware. Ginny. Buckfast boasts a new bigger and brighter Post Office thanks to the local Abbey. 8 August 2016. Herald Express. 19 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151020142117/http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Buckfast-boasts-new-bigger-brighter-Post-Office/story-28012255-detail/story.html. 20 October 2015. dead.