Dowlish Wake
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Dowlish Wake is a small village and parish in Somerset, England, situated five miles north east of Chard in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 293. The village is famous locally for the cider produced at Perrys Cider Mill. The village also contains a pub, a church and an antiques shop. The post office closed in the 1980s. Until the early 1990s parts of the village were regularly cut off by floodwaters between two fords which cross the main road. However, this flooding has been prevented after the construction of wider water pipes beneath the road.
Speke Hall was the home of the family of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the 1850s and 1860s in search of the source of the Nile.
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- ↑ Somerset County Council, 2002. Population estimates.
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