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Storehouse not swaying ?

BARNSTABLE as a mistake for BARNSTAPLE? (where I come from!)

I think as suggested on your other thread Barnstaple
And setter perhaps thinks it's Barnstable.

There is a Barnstable in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts

I am unclear as to why Rosalind's suggestion of BarstaPle in Devon is not acceptable?

As I mentioned on the previous thread, "staple" can mean "steady" so why does this not fit the clue?

I don't like to argue with you, elle (or anyone!) but surely staple as a noun means the wire things, or as a verb means to hold things together with the bent wires. As far as I can see "steady" is an adjective which "staple" can't be. But you know far more about grammar than I do.
As I said, I think it is simply a mistake and Barnstaple is the answer. After all, there's another spelling mistake in the clues.

The "staple" in Barnstaple referred to wool imports in medieval times, and other port privileges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Staple

Sorry - wool exports, of course.

and wool staplers bought wool, graded it and sold it on. It's an occupation you see in nineteenth century censuses.