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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Historic house museums in Devon, Museums in Exeter, Museums in Plymouth, Devon, Dartmoor, List of museums in Devon, Knightshayes Court, Saltram House, A La Ronde, Castle Drogo, Crownhill Fort, Torre Abbey, Morwellham Quay, Start Point lighthouse, Smeaton's Tower, Powderham Castle, Bere Ferrers railway station, Chambercombe Manor, St Nicholas Priory, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Kelly House, Devon, Coleton Fishacre, Cadhay, Greenway Estate, Overbeck's, Bideford Railway Heritage Centre, Totnes Guildhall, Buckfastleigh railway station, Buckland Abbey, Dartmouth Castle, Compton Castle, Bradley, Totnes Museum, Killerton, Museum of Dartmoor Life, Kirkham House, Arlington Court, Watermouth Castle, Ugbrooke, The Old Bakery, Manor Mill & Forge, Kelly Mine, Devon, Lyn and Exmoor Museum, Finch Foundry, Devonshire Collection of Period Costume, Devon Railway Centre, Bill Douglas Centre, Axminster Museum, Plymouth Naval Base Museum, Otterton Mill. Excerpt: This list of museums in Devon, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order. Knightshayes Court is a Victorian country house in Tiverton, Devon, England, designed by William Burges for the Heathcoat-Amory family. Nikolaus Pevsner decribes it as "an eloqu...