Posbury
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Posbury Hill Fort in an unexcavated fort, located three miles from Crediton, Devon. W. G. Hoskins states that this is a likely site for Posentesburg, a battle site from 661BC in which, Wessex, the King of Cenwalh moved the native Briton tribes out of middle Devon to the coast. Today the Hill Fort's defense are best seen from the Bridal path, just to the North of Posbury St. Francis nunnery. The nunnery occupies the original home of the Tuckfields, later the Hippisley family which was followed by the Shelleys of Shobrooke Park. In 1931 the Shelleys moves to Shobrooke, near Crediton. The Nunnery was founded by a Grace Emily Costin who took the name "Mother Teresa". Gold was supposedly discovered in a tree struck by lightening.
Just to the South of the hamlet there are the remains of an early Roman road, that ran from the newly discovered Roman Fort, near Colebrooke, in an eastward direction towards Crediton.
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