Modbury is a small town mentioned in Domesday and its name is thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon 'Moot Burgh'. Royalist forces occupied the town in the Civil War but were forced to retreat by a larger Parliamentary army. In the 18th century the town was principally engaged in the wool industry but this eventually declined and many people emigrated abroad.
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