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Plymouth Leat: The Tudors’ Most Ambitious Civil Engineering Feat
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Devon: Armada Way – North Hill – Drake’s Place – North Road East - Houndiscombe Road – Mutley Plain – Hyde Park – Peverell – Pennycross
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Urban Leat Route – Tudor Civil Engineering – Sir Francis Drake – Parliamentary Water Act – Water-Powered Mills – Free Public Conduits – Industrial Plymouth – Drake’s Place Reservoir – Victorian Water Reform – Thomas Hawksley – Covered Leat – Thornhill House – Burrator Reservoir
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Eggesford: The Real-Life Inspiration Behind Downton Abbey and Gosford Park
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Devon: Eggesford - All Saints Church – Victorian Kitchen Garden – Eggesford Barton
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Heritage Open Day – Saxon Origins – Taw Valley Routes – Copleston & Chichester Families – Civil War Skirmish – Digby Connections – Irish Chichester Lineage – Speke Family – Fellowes – Estate Duties 1894 – Estate Worker Graves – Kitchen Garden Restoration – Eggesford Barton
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Berry Pomeroy: The Castle on the Hill and the Fates of the Pomeroys and the Seymours
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Devon: Berry Pomeroy Castle Gatehouse – St Margaret’s Tower – Elizabethan Mansion Range – Jacobean Great Hall & Long Gallery – Berry Manor House – St Mary’s Church – Seymour Chapel – Pyramid Tomb – Naval Memorials – War Memorial – Gatcombe House – Gatcombe Mill – Castle North View
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Yorkist Allegiance – Transitional Arquebus Loops – Tudor Court Politics – Wolsey Patronage – Protector Seymour’s Protestant Reforms – Prayer Book Rebellion – Civil War – Ruins – Parish Funerary Art – Naval Service – Rural Economy – Landscape Reclamation – Dynastic Rise and Fall
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The Church in the East Devon Field: Serendipity Unlocks So Much History
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Devon: Fairmile – St Philip & St James – A30 – Escot Estate – Lashbrook Farm – Talaton Village – St James the Great – Talaton Churchyard – Return through Escot – Fairmile Fields
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Sir Peveril William‑Powlett – Kennaway Family – East India Company – Diwani Grant – Lord Cornwallis – Nizam of Hyderabad – Tipu Sultan – Douglas Family – Kasauli – Jutogh – Robert Kennaway Douglas – Shergold Smith – HMS Fiji – Kit Tanner – Operation Vigorous – Kariba Dam – Rhodesia Federation – Palk Family – Amyatt Family – Patna Massacre – Battle of Buxar – Webb Servants
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Exeter, a City That Yields Its History Step by Step
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Devon: Renslade House – Holiday Inn – Tudor House – Frog Street – St Edmund’s Church – St Mary Steps – Stepcote Hill – St Olave’s – Mint Methodist Church – Mint Lane – St Nicholas’ Priory – Lower Cemetery – Catacombs – Exeter Synagogue – Devon and Exeter Institution – Cathedral Close – Quay
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Tudor vs Stuart Architecture – Medieval Bridge and River Silt – Anglo‑Danish Period – Gythe and Harold Godwinson – Norman Conquest – Huguenot Refugees – Greek Revival – Civil War Royal Mint – Benedictine Monastic Power – A30 Road Scheme – Cholera Epidemic – Egyptian Revival – Theatre Royal Disaster – Sephardi and Ashkenazi Communities – Jeremy Bentham – John Bowring – King Mongkut – Geoffrey Toone (The King and I)
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Exeter and the River Exe: A Wander Through Two Thousand Years of History
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Devon: Cricklepit Mill – St Mary Steps – West Gate – Medieval Bridge – Westgate Christian Centre – Snayle’s Tower – City Walls – Parliament Street – St Petrock’s – North Gate – Iron Bridge – Mount Dinham – St David’s Church – GWR Hotel – St David’s Station – Exwick – Emmanuel Church – Gospel Hall – Wesleyan Chapel – St Thomas Congregational Church
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Waterpower – City Defences – Medieval Bridge – Greek Revival – Wall Surveillance Points – Anglo‑Catholicism – Narrow Parliament Street – Puritan and Restoration Memorials – Rebel Assaults – Colonial Memorials – Waterloo – Brunel Railway Terminus – Ghost Churches of St Thomas
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Seeking Cool Paths from the River Bovey to Pethybridge and Lustleigh
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Devon: Pullabrook Wood – River Bovey – Dartmoor Way – Hisley Packhorse Bridge – Hisley Wood – Bridle Path – Pethybridge – Lustleigh Orchard – May Queen Rock – Lustleigh Village – St John the Baptist’s Church – Heritage Centre – Baptist Church – Non‑Conformist Graveyard – Old Mill – Railway Arches – Out‑of‑Town Cemetery
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Timber Industry – Packhorses – Steep Terrain – Bridle Path – Ridge Views – Thatched Cottages – May Queen – Orchard – Effigies – Rood Screen – Romano‑British Tomb Slab – Early Christian Site – Imperial History – Leo Amery – Balfour Declaration – John Amery – Treason – Julian Amery – James Bond
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Heavitree’s Layers of History
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Devon: Higher Cemetery – Ladysmith Road – Fore Street – St Michael and All Angels – Livery Dole Chapel – Gordon Lamp – Blessed Sacrament Church – Heavitree United Reformed Church – Duckes Almshouses – Heavitree Park – Higher Cemetery
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War Graves – Imperial Connections – Victorian Memorials – Old Contemptibles – Napoleonic Officers – East India Company – Bengal Establishment – Raleigh Family – Local History – Urban Expansion – Edwardian Park‑Building – Religious Architecture
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Grimspound and Hameldown: Landscapes of Settlement and War
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Devon: Bennett’s Cross – Two Moors Way – Birch Tor – Hookney Tor – Grimspound – Hampden X3054 Memorial – Hameldown Tor – Grimspound – Two Moors Way – Bennett’s Cross
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Tin‑streaming Landscape – Vitifer Mine Complex – Medieval Field Systems – Bluebell Slopes – Bronze Age Settlement – Victorian Reconstruction – Hut Circles – Hampden X3054 Crash Site – Anti‑glider Poles – Dartmoor Upland History
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Lewtrenchard: Eccentric Lives and Lost Battles
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Devon: St Peter’s Church – Lewtrenchard Manor – Manor Drive – River Lew Crossing – Lew Wood – Coryton Barton – Lower Town – Coryton Footbridge – St Andrew’s Church, Coryton – Coryton Mill – Sunken Lane – Return through Lew Wood – Back to Lewtrenchard
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Sabine Baring‑Gould – Baring and Gould Families – Pygmalion – George Monk– Battle of Gafulford – Coryton Family – Newman Family – Parish War Dead – Survey of India – Rajahs of Sarawak – First Afghan War – Pinwill Sisters – Rood Screen and Loft
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Haytor to Hound Tor: Granite, Bluebells and the Lost Settlement of Hundatora
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Devon: Haytor Down – Holwell Lawn – Templer Way – Haytor Quarries – Smallacombe Rocks – Becka Brook Clapper Bridge – Greator Rocks – Hundatora Medieval Village – Black Hill
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George Templer – Granite Railway – Quarrying Methods – Cuckoos – Black Death – Medieval Longhouses – Strip‑Farming Systems – Parish Boundaries
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Haytor Down to Ilsington: History on the Edge of the Moor
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Devon: Haytor Down – Parish Boundstones – Duke of Somerset – Stover Estate – Granite Tramway – Green Lane – Narracombe Wood – St Michael’s Church – Manor House Remains – Lychgate Schoolroom Collapse
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Parish History – Poor Law – Victorian Somerset Scandal – Lime Kiln Restoration – Wildlife Photography Garden – Medieval Architecture – Reredos Story – Scottish Monro Connections – Local War Memorial
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Among the Bluebells: Blackbury Camp, Wiscombe Park and Southleigh
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Devon: Blackbury Camp – Wiscombe Park – Southleigh Hills – Valley Descent – St Lawrence’s Church – Drake Memorial – Gifford Edmonds Window – Northdown Plantation – Broaddown – Blackbury Camp
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Iron Age Fortification – Bluebell Woodlands – Wiscombe Hill Climb – Bonville and Courtenay Feuds – Drake Family History – Boer War Memorial – Parish Architecture – 17th‑Century Tombs
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Devon Lives, Distant Worlds: Chudleigh’s Church and Cemetery
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Devon: St Martin & St Mary – Fore Street – Obelisk – Town Hall Site – Clifford Street – Town Mill – Chudleigh Cemetery – Castle Dyke Hillfort
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Tudor–Stuart Gentry – Medieval Church Art – Country‑House Networks – East India Company Service – Colonial Surveying & Mapping – Arctic Exploration Links – Indian Mutiny Campaigns – First World War Service – Civilian Maritime Tragedy – Imperial Naval & Military Careers – Refugees of Two World Wars
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From Chudleigh Knighton to Chudleigh: In Search of a Bishop’s Palace
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Devon: Chudleigh Knighton – St Paul’s – War Memorial Gateway – Rock House – Hidden Gardens – Bishop’s Palace Site – Vaulted Chambers – Descent to Chudleigh – Fore Street – Parish Church – Pynsent’s Free School
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Gilbert Scott & Victorian Gothic – Great War Memorials – Gibbs Family & Plymouth Blitz – General William Templer Hughes – Norman Episcopal Origins – Licence to Crenellate – Reformation & Somerset – Coaching Inns & Turnpike Route – Teign Valley Railway – Educational Philanthropy & Pynsent Foundation
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From Sowton to Farringdon: Forgotten Camps, Forgotten Servants and Forgotten Soldiers
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Devon: Sowton – Bishop’s Court – Dymond’s Farm POW Camp – Farringdon House – Farringdon Village – 307 Squadron Memorial – St Petrock & St Barnabas – Return to Sowton – St Michael and All Angels’
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Bishop’s Palace Entranceway – Civil War & Prayer Book Rebellion Movements – WWII POW Camp – American Paratroopers – Cholwich Line – RAF & Polish 307 Squadron – Approved School – Victorian Church Rebuild – Servants’ Memorial – Garratt Military Graves
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St Ida and St Thomas: Phoenix Churches of the Exe Valley
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Devon: Little John’s Cross – Ide House – A30 – Ide Village – Congregational Church – St Ida’s – St Ida’s Churchyard – St Thomas Church – St Thomas Churchyard – Redhill Workhouse
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Medieval Cross & Village Origins – Georgian & Victorian Domestic Architecture – Nonconformist Heritage – 1833 Rebuilding of St Ida’s – Herbert Read Furnishings – Christiana Medley Effigy – Abbey‑Style East Window – Medieval Tower Remains – Civil War Destruction & Rebuilding – First World War Memorials – Poor Law History
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Exwick Cemetery: Stories from a Victorian Burial Ground
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Devon: Exwick Cemetery
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Victorian Burial Reform – Anglican & Non‑Conformist Chapels – Jewish & Muslim Sections – CWGC – 7th (Cyclist) Battalion Devonshire Regiment – Ronald F.G. Peek – Francis Gerald Pollard – Major General Lester Horatio Sibthorpe – VC Recipient George Hollis – Garnsworthy Family Maritime Tragedies – Frank Shooter – Infant Mortality – Hong Kong Memorial to Arthur Dunrich
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Sowton: A Village Holding Its Ground Against the Modern World
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Devon: Sowton Village – St Michael & All Angels Church – Churchyard Grotesques – War Memorial – Bishop’s Court Lane – Lodge & 1834 Railings – Bishop’s Court – The Mill – River Clyst – Return to Sowton
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Tudor Arcade & Aragon Pomegranate – Tractarian Restoration – Garratt Family – John Hayward Architecture – Stained Glass & Painted Chancel – War Memorials – Barnes Family & Indian Connections – Medieval Grotesques – Bishop’s Palace History – Admiral Thomas Graves – Prayer Book Rebellion Route
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Stories in Stone at Exeter Higher Cemetery
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Devon: Exeter Higher Cemetery
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Axis War Graves – Polish 307 Squadron – RAF & Commonwealth Aircrew – Exeter Blitz Victims – North Africa Campaign Grave – Sculptor Edward Thomas Rogers – Thomas Whistler of Unley – Exeter Theatre Fire Memorial – Cummins Family Scarlet Fever Tragedy – RSM William Draycott – Captain Henry Kent RN – Commander Hunter Kent RN
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Pixies, Poets and Parish Splendour: Ottery St. Mary
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Devon: Land of Canaan – St Mary’s Church – Coleridge Birthplace Site – Tumbling Weir – River Otter – Pixies’ Parlour – Wiggaton – St Edward the Confessor – Knightstone Manor – Return to Ottery St Mary – St Mary’s Church Interior
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Weir – Pixie Folklore – Knightstone Manor – Bonville & Grey Families – Tudor Succession Crisis – Grandisson Church – Reformation – Astronomical Clock – Coleridge Memorials – Caribbean Emancipation – Anti‑Slavery Naval Actions – Afghan Wars – Satow in Japan and China
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Clyst St Mary: The Ancient Bridge Worth Fighting For
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Devon: Clyst St Mary – Frog Lane – River Clyst – Medieval Bridge – Bishop’s Court – Mill – Winslade House – St Mary’s Church – Grindle House
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Wars of the Roses – Courtenay vs Bonville – Prayer Book Rebellion – Ambush on Frog Lane – Russell’s Mercenaries – Crossing at the Mill – Stained Glass Windows – East India Company Connections – Porcher & Cotsford Memorials – Local War Heroes
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Sampford Courtenay and Honeychurch: Contrasting Churches and Rebellion
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Devon: Sampford Courtenay Square – St Andrew’s Church – Church Room Steps – View of Green Hill – Village Hall – Village Lanes – Honeychurch – Honeychurch Churchyard – Return to Sampford Courtenay – The New Inn
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Prayer Book Rebellion Origins – Death of William Hellyons – Battle at Green Hill – Tudor Religious Change – Surviving Medieval Fittings – Local Memorials & War Dead – Norman Architecture at Honeychurch – Royal Coats of Arms – Medieval Corbels & Font – Rural Candlelit Worship – First World War Connections – Ghost Story
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From Loughwood to Kilmington: A Walk Through England’s Layered Faith and History
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Devon: Loughwood Baptist Church – Roman Road – Kilmington – Newenham Abbey – St Giles – Coryton Park – Shute Barton – Axe Valley
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17th‑century Non‑conformists – Fifth Monarchists – Fosse Way – Saxon–Danish Battles – Monmouth Rebellion – Commonwealth War Graves – Bridges Military Family – Southcott Monument – Victorian Church Architecture – Modern Baptist Worship
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Paignton: Beneath the Arcades – The Older Paignton of Bishops, Bibles and Burials Far From Home
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Devon: Coombe Road – Old Manor Inn – Preston Gardens – Oldway Mansion – Christ Church – Kirkham House – Paignton Clink – St John the Baptist Church – Bishop’s Palace – Palace Avenue Gardens & War Memorial – Railway Crossing – Paignton Seafront & Pier – Redcliffe Hotel – Coastal Path – Hollicombe Park – Occombe Valley Nature Reserve – Return to Shorton
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Rural Origins of Paignton – Preston House – Isaac Merritt Singer & Oldway Mansion – Victorian Church Expansion – Medieval Townhouse Architecture – Early Policing & Paignton Clink – Bishop’s Palace & Coverdale Tower – Reformation & Bible Translation – Chantry Chapels & Iconoclasm – Naval & Imperial Memorials – RMS Amazon Disaster – Colonel Robert Smith & Indian‑inspired Architecture
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Marldon: From the Medieval Church with a Peculiar Tower to the Castle on the Hill
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Devon: St John the Baptist Church – Gilbert Chapel & Chantry Cenotaphs – Compton Castle – Marldon Tor – Strainytor Copse – John Musgrave Heritage Trail – Loventor Manor – Afton Bridge – Berry Pomeroy Castle – Aptor Brake – Weakaborough Oak Cross – Return to Marldon Village
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Gilbert Merchant Adventurers – Comptons – Great War Memorials & Local Loss – Royal Naval Division – American D-Day Preparations - Elizabeth Goudge – Ghost Lore of Berry Pomeroy – Rural Devon Landscapes – Bulls on the Footpath – Views Dartmoor – Beating of the Bounds
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Bovey Tracey on the 380th Anniversary of the Battle of Bovey Heath
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Devon: Bovey Heath Battlefield – Industrial Estate Access Route – Templer Way – Indio House Estate – St John the Evangelist Church – Bovey Tracey Town Centre – Cromwell’s Arch – Fore Street – East Street – The Manor House – Almshouses – St Mary’s Well – Parish Church of St Peter, St Paul & St Thomas of Canterbury
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Civil War Battlefield – Cromwell’s Dusk Attack – Bentinck Family & William of Orange – Victorian Anglo‑Catholicism – Canon Courtenay – Queen Victoria’s Chaplain – Devon House of Mercy – Thomas Becket – Misattributed Cromwellian Architecture – Church Art & Rood Screens – Imperial Service in West Africa – Early Great War Casualties – Local Aristocratic Families – Religious Division & Legacy
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Belstone in Snow: A Walk Through Weather and Time
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Devon: Belstone – Village Stocks – Accession Menhir – Zion Chapel Telegraph Office – St Mary the Virgin Church – Nine Maidens Stone Circle – Belstone Tor – Irishman’s Wall – Higher Tor – Oke Tor
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Snow on Dartmoor – Agatha Christie’s Sittaford – Early Telecommunications – Belstone Ring Cross – War Graves – Pirate Legend – Tuberculosis Tragedies – Bronze Age Landscapes – Dramatic Weather – Moorland Wildlife
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Leusdon and Dr Blackall’s Drive: A Winter Walk through History
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Devon: Aish Tor – Dr Blackall’s Drive – Poundsgate – Uppacott Farm – Leusdon Memorial Hall – St John the Baptist Church – Spitchwick Manor – Lowertown – Buckland-in-the-Moor
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Scenic Carriage Route – Dart Valley Views – Medieval Farm Life – Methodist Chapel – Imperial Connections – First World War Memorials – South Australian Premier – Torrens Title – War Graves – Blue Bird Window – Victorian Philanthropy – Conan Doyle Legends – The Devil at the Tavistock Inn
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Buckland‑in‑the‑Moor: From the Ten Commandments to the Churchyard |
Devon: Cold East Cross - Buckland Beacon - Bowden Farm - Buckland‑in‑the‑Moor |
Ten Commandments Stones – St Peter’s Church – Whitley Family Losses – “My Dear Mother” Clock – Scratched Faces on the Rood Screen – Tudor Bosses – Reformation – Global Connections – War Graves |
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Woodbury: A Village at the Crossroads of Empire, Faith and History |
Devon: Woodbury Castle - Woodbury Common - Colaton Raleigh Common - Kettle Plantation - Woodbury Wood - Woodbury |
Iron Age Fort - Pebble Heathlands - Grenade Range - River Exe View - St. Swithun's Church - Imperial Connections - 1688 Revolution - Royal Marines - St. Swithun's Overflow Cemetery |
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Colyton: The Most Rebellious Town in Devon |
Devon: Colyton - Coly River - Colyford |
Monmouth Rebellion - St Andrew's Church - Lantern Tower - Arctic Explorer - Shipwreck Survivor - Saxon Cross - Courtenay Memorial - Pole Family Vault - Stained Glass Windows |
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Reflections Along the Grand Western Canal: Ghosts, Gallantry, and the Stories of Sampford Peverell |
Devon: Greenway Bridge - Grand Western Canal Towpath - Sampford Peverell |
Swing Bridge - The Sampford Ghost - St. John the Baptist Church - The Peverells - Margaret Beaufort - Jailor of Mary Queen of Scots - Yeoman of the Guard |
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Hembury to Holne: A Continuity of English Life |
Devon: Hembury Woods - Shuttaford - Holne - Langaford - Mill Leat |
Hembury Fort - Hembury Castle - The Church Inn - Holne Community Shop - St Mary's Church - Dartmoor Way - Holy Brook |
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Halberton: Kingfishers on the Curious Canal to Nowhere! |
Devon: Halberton - Greenway Bridge - Grand Western Canal Towpath |
Grand Western Canal Country Park - Tub Boats - Swing Bridge - St Andrew's Church - English Civil War - 15th Century Pulpit and Rood Screen - Commonwealth War Graves |
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Powderham to Kenton: A Journey through War, Worship, and Empire |
Devon: Powderham Church - Powderham Estate - Kenton |
St Clement's Church - Rood Screens - Deer - All Saint's Church - Rood Loft - Imperial Graves and Memorials |
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Where History Falls Like Leaves: A Teign Valley Walk |
Devon: Teign Valley - Bridford Woods - Dunsford Woods - Dunsford Village |
River Teign - Autumn - St Mary Church, Dunsford - Fulford Family - English Civil War |
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The Templers of Stover |
Devon: Teigngrace - Newton Abbot - Kingsteignton |
The Templer Family Church of St Peter and St Paul at Teigngrace - The Stover Canal - River Teign |
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She's Not a Screamer! |
Devon: Sandford Orleigh - Bovey Heath - Ilford Park - Stover Park |
Explorers of the Nile - The Stover Canal - The Haytor Granite Tramway - River Teign - The English Civil War - Battle of Bovey Heath - The Polish Connection - The Canadian Lumberjacks |
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The Eden Way: Lost Footpaths and Medieval Treasures |
Devon: Teign Valley - Steps Bridge - Bridford Woods - Bridford - Heltor |
Stepping Stones - Ancient Paths - St Thomas Becket Church - Medieval Carved Rood Screen - Palk Family |
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Three Churches, One Valley: A Journey Along the Eden Way |
Devon: Christow - Ashton - Doddiscombsleigh |
St James the Apostle in Christow - Pellew Family - St John the Baptist at Ashton - George Chudleigh - Painted Rood Screens - St Michael’s Church at Doddiscombsleigh - Medieval Stained Glass |
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Haldon House and the East India Company: Devon’s Hidden Ties to Empire |
Devon: Lawrence Castle - Lord Haldon Hotel - Dunchideock |
Haldon Belvedere - General Stringer Lawrence - Haldon House - Sir Robert Palk - St Michael and All Angels Church |
