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Devon Perspectives
A personal view of some of Devon's favourite places and characters in words and pictures
The air is sharp, yet healthful, giving appetite both to labour and rest, drawing out
man's life longer than those which live in countries subject to fogs and vapours, if they
do not, as the common sort of man in this corrupt age, weaken themselves by excess.
[From Tristram Risdon's Survey of Devon completed in 1632, but not published in
full until 1811.]
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The scene from the Appledore Maritime Players production of The Nightingale
Scandal is reproduced by kind permission of Atlantic Web Designs.
The image of a print depicting Raleigh's execution comes from the NYPL Digital
Gallery.
last modified on 02 Jul 2009
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- DEVON PLACES »
- affetonancestral home of the Stucleys deep in the heart of rural Mid Devon
- belstoneattractive village on Dartmoor's northern edge
- bickleighold-world charm in the Exe valley near Tiverton
- brixhamhaunt of fishermen and seafarers of yore
- budleigh salterton famed for red cliffs and bun-sized pebbles
- chagfordpicturesque Dartmoor town with an industrial past
- great torringtonscene of Devon's bloodiest Civil War battle
- lundy islandDevon's northern outpost
- okehamptonhistoric town on Dartmoor's northern flank
- tetcottenchanting hamlet in Devon's far west
- totnesEngland's second oldest borough
- DEVON CHARACTERS »
- charles babbage Reflections on the computer pioneer with strong links to Devon
- william crossing A look at the life and writings of the renowned authority on Dartmoor and its anquities
- john hawley The life and times of Dartmouth's heroic privateer
- james northcoteHighlights of the long life of Plymouth's noted artist and raconteur
- DEVON VILLAINS »
- sir john fitzThe story of the decline and fall of a tormented soul
- thomas bensonThe deceitful North Devon merchant trader who exploited Lundy Island
- the nightingale scandal The story of Thomas Benson and the sinking of the Nightingale
- bampfylde moore carewRevealing some of the many exploits of Devon's most notorious trickster
- sir lewis stukeleyChronicling the shameful betrayal of Sir Walter Raleigh by 'Judas' Stukeley
- DEVON ANTIQUITIES »
- scorhill stone circleThe only standing stone circle on Dartmoor that has not been restored
- spinster's rockThe finest example in Devon of a neolithic dolmen
- PHOTO GALLERIES »
- dartmoor gallerya visual tour of the River Dart on Dartmoor by Mike Russell
- reed combing scenesimages of reed combing in Mid Devon by Mike Russell
- EXTERNAL LINKS »
- Dartmoor Perspectives comprehensive tour of the Dartmoor forest and commons in words and pictures
- Devon History Selection John Lerwill's useful Devon history and genaelogy resource
- Legendary Dartmoor an exhaustive romp through the myths and legends of Dartmoor
- Zeal M.Online about Zeal Monachorum and much more besides
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