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Belmont, Westmoreland

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Coastal village in Westmoreland that is the birthplace and burial place of Wailers co-founder Peter Tosh, now a pilgrimage point on the south-west coast.

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Lonely Planet; AFAR; Jamaica Gleaner.

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