Trentishoe is a village in North Devon

Devon

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, England

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. It is in the Shirwell deanery of the Church of England

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. James Hannington

James Hannington

James Hannington was an Anglican missionary, saint and martyr.-Life:Hannington was born at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, England, on 3 September 1847. A poor scholar, he left school at fifteen to work in his father's Brighton counting house. At twenty-one, Hannington decided to pursue a clerical...

, a future saint and a martyr, took charge of the small parish church of Trentishoe in 1873.

Trentishoe free festivals

In 1973 a small ecologically-themed free rock festival was held on a clifftop site near Trentishoe, titled the Trentishoe Whole Earth Fayre (possibly following a minuscule 1972 festival of which records are sparse). A follow-up event took place in 1975, and another under the same name but at a different location in 1976.

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