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Phone numbers with the standard code 01237, associated with Bideford, appear in the following registers:

  • 10,976 in the Telephone Preference Service (TPS)
  • 89 in the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (CTPS)
  • There are 16,789,752 numbers registered on TPS, and 1,312,294 numbers registered on CTPS (figures correct as of 27/7/2024).

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    Bideford is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, south-west England. It is the main town of the Torridge local government district.

    In ancient records Bideford is recorded as Bedeford, Byddyfrod, Bedyford, Bydeford, Bytheford and Biddeford. The etymology of the name means "by the ford," and records show that, before there was a bridge, there was a ford at Bideford where River Torridge is estuarine; and at low tide, it is possible to cross the river by wading on foot.

    Hubba the Dane was said to have attacked Devon in the area around Bideford near Northam or near Kenwith Castle, and was repelled either by Alfred the Great or by the Saxon Earl of Devon.

    The manor of Bideford was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as held at some time in chief from William the Conqueror by the great Saxon nobleman Brictric, but later held by the king's wife Matilda of Flanders . There were then 30 villagers, 8 smallholders and 14 slaves in Bideford, within the ancient hundred of Merton in Devon. According to the account by the Continuator of Wace and others, in his youth Brictric declined the romantic advances of Matilda and his great fiefdom was thereupon seized by her. Whatever the truth of the matter, years later, when she was acting as regent in England for William the Conqueror, she used her authority to confiscate Brictric's lands and threw him into prison, where he died. The Exon Domesday notes that Bideford and nearby Littleham were held at fee farm from the king by Gotshelm, a Devonshire tenant-in-chief of 28 manors and brother of Walter de Claville. Gotshelm's 28 manors descended to the Honour of Gloucester, as did most of Brictric's.

    After the death of Matilda in 1083, Brictric's lands were granted by her eldest son King William Rufus to Robert FitzHamon , the conqueror of Glamorgan, whose daughter and sole heiress Maud FitzHamon brought them to her husband Robert de Caen, 1st Earl of Gloucester , an illegitimate son of Matilda's younger son King Henry I . Thus Brictric's fiefdom became the feudal barony of Gloucester. The Grenville family held Bideford for many centuries under the overlordship of the feudal barons of Gloucester, which barony was soon absorbed into the Crown, when they became tenants in chief.

    Source: Wikipedia