Statue for Raleigh Birthplace

From the BBC:

A new statue of Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh is to be unveiled at his birthplace in Devon.

Raleigh, who was born at Hayes Barton, near East Budleigh, brought back tobacco and potatoes to Britain from the New World, now the United States.

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