The Westcountry Walker: Hiking Through History

In addition to history, my other passion is hiking and walking. Most weekends I set out to explore, guided by my unofficial motto: “you don’t have to travel far to be an explorer.” Living in Plymouth means there is inevitably a strong bias towards Westcountry walks, but wherever I go I try to uncover the stories of the local area—its churches, old manor houses, industrial heritage, and more.

For many years I’ve shared these exploits on social media, and friends have often asked me to make my walks available for others to follow. I usually walk with my trusty companion, Rupert the Dog (and before him, Oliver), whose presence adds both joy and continuity to my journeys.

This section is intended to offer inspiration, weaving together landscapes, history, and memory. Along the way, I will also highlight the imperial connections that almost always surface, reminding us how even the most local paths are linked to wider currents of history. You can also find a list of the talks that I give on various historical topics here

You can also follow our adventures on facebook at: Westcountry Walker: Hiking Through History or on Instagram at westcountry_walker

Below is a list of all the walks in no particular order except that the most recent walk is added to the top. If you would prefer, the walks have been organised by county here

Tintagel and St Materiana's: Where Fantasy and Reality Collide	St Materiana – Earthwork – Coast Path – Tintagel Castle – Tintagel Bridge – Gallos – Rock-Cut Tunnel – Walled Garden – Castle Chapel – Tintagel Bridge – Visitor Centre – St Materiana – Anchorite Cell	Dumnonia – Mediterranean Trade – Celtic Christianity – Tristan and Isolde – Richard of Cornwall – King Arthur – Coastal Erosion – Romantic Movement – Victorian Tourism – St Materiana – Emperor Licinius – Norman Font – Second Afghan War – Kut-el-Amara – Battle of Britain – Italian Barque Iota – J. L. Carr – A Month in the Country
Launceston’s Lepers along the Kensey Valley	Cornwall: Newport – St Thomas Church – West Bridge – East Bridge – Newport Round House – Kensey Valley – Ridgegrove Mills – St Leonard's Leper Hospital – Polson Bridge – Colhay	Lanstephen – Dunheved – St Stephen's Priory – Leper Window – St Roche Painting – Altarnun Font – Caroline Dickinson – War Memorials – Duke of Northumberland – Rotten Boroughs – Temple of the Winds – Kensey River – Mills and Tanneries – North Cornwall Railway – St Leonard's Leper Colony – Time Team – Polson Bridge – Cornish Rebellions – English Civil War – Antique Chair Museum
Plymouth Leat: The Tudors’ Most Ambitious Civil Engineering Feat	Devon: Armada Way – North Hill – Drake’s Place – North Road East - Houndiscombe Road – Mutley Plain – Hyde Park – Peverell – Pennycross	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
Eggesford: The Real-Life Inspiration Behind Downton Abbey and Gosford Park	Devon: Eggesford - All Saints Church – Victorian Kitchen Garden – Eggesford Barton	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
From St Stephens to Launceston Castle: A Shifting Stronghold	Cornwall: St Stephens Church – Priory Valley – River Kensey Crossing – Climb into Launceston – Launceston Castle – St Mary Magdalene Church – Ching Alley	Athelstan’s Mint Origins – Saxon Sculptures – Sanctuary Ring – Western Front Crosses – Langdon Memorial – Jutland Chaplain Morgan – Ernest Cory Mitchell – William Tucker – Castle Origins – Richard of Cornwall’s Walkways – Civil War Sieges & “Castle Terrible” – Tudor Granite Exterior – Piper & Wise Monuments – Thomas Prockter Ching
Berry Pomeroy: The Castle on the Hill and the Fates of the Pomeroys and the Seymours	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	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
Launceston’s Curious Streets, Shaped by Castle, Priory and Nature	Cornwall: St Thomas Bridge – Priory Foundations – St Thomas Churchyard – Packhorse Bridge – Causley Memorial – Railway Remnants – St Thomas Hill – Passmore Edwards Institute – Congregational School – Town Centre – St Mary Magdalene – War Memorial – Guildhall Quarterjacks – Castle Gate & Gaol – Eagle House Hotel	Norman Strategy – Monastic Power – Ecclesiastical Burials – Literary Heritage – Industrial Archaeology – Victorian Philanthropy – Nonconformist Education – Tudor Masonry – Civic Authority – Penal History – Georgian Lottery House
The Church in the East Devon Field: Serendipity Unlocks So Much History	Devon: Fairmile – St Philip & St James – A30 – Escot Estate – Lashbrook Farm – Talaton Village – St James the Great – Talaton Churchyard – Return through Escot – Fairmile Fields	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
Lewannick, the Archers and the Vanished Manor of Trelaske — and echoes of early Christianity	Cornwall: War Memorial – Lewannick Church – Interior Ogham Stone – Blocked Footpaths – Trelaske Manor Site – Surviving West Wing – Walled Garden Gateway – Gothic Lodge – Estate Fields and Former Drive	Marks MP – Early Christianity – Ogham Script – Ulcagnus – 1890 Fire – Trelaske Estate – Archer Family – Manor Demolition
Exeter, a City That Yields Its History Step by Step	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	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)
Exeter and the River Exe: A Wander Through Two Thousand Years of History	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	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
Seeking Cool Paths from the River Bovey to Pethybridge and Lustleigh	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	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
East Coker: The Past That Shaped T. S. Eliot’s Vision of England	Somerset: Approach via Holloways – Helyar Almshouses – Plague Pit – St Michael and All Angels – Coker Court – Helyar Arms – St Roch Cottage – Hymerford House – Community Library – Sunken Paths Northwards – Naish Priory – Roman Villa Site – East Coker Cemetery	Holloways – Helyars – Plague Pit – Church – Coker Court – St Roch Cottage – William Dampier – Naish Priory – Roman Villa – T.S. Eliot
Athelney: Where Alfred’s Fortunes Were Transformed — as was the Landscape That Concealed Him	Somerset: Athelney Monument and Abbey Site – Burrow Mump – Burrowbridge and the King Alfred Inn – River Parrett Embankment – Lyng Drove – East Lyng – St Bartholomew’s Church – Cuts Road and Balt Moor Wall – Return to Athelney	Alfred’s Refuge and Abbey – Burrow Mump Fortified Hill – Turnpike – King Alfred Inn – Somerset Levels Drainage – Cattle Droves – Irrigation – Saxon Burh at East Lyng – Medieval Bench Ends – Alfred Jewel Window – Medieval and Saxon Flood Defences
Cheddar Gorge: Lead, Limestone and Layers of History	Somerset: Ubley Warren – Roman Fort – Roman Settlement – Amphitheatre – Velvet Bottom – Long Wood – Rhino Rift – Charterhouse Farm – North Rim of Cheddar Gorge – Horseshoe Bend – Black Rock Quarry – Return to Velvet Bottom – St Hugh’s Church – Ubley Warren	Prehistory – Roman Mining – Medieval Lead Working – Victorian Industry – Carthusian Charterhouse – St Hugh – Arts and Crafts Church – WW1 Memorials – Mendip Geology – Industrial Archaeology – Landscape History
History Beneath the Downs: Swanmore and Bishop’s Waltham	Hampshire: Swanmore – South Downs Path – Quaker Burial Ground – Bishop’s Waltham – St Peter’s Church – own Centre – Crown Inn – Bishop’s Palace – Return Route to Swanmore	Quaker Persecution – Nonconformist Burial Grounds – Saxon Christianity – Danish Raids – Civil War – WW2 Observation Post – Royal Navy Memorials – Imperial Service – Boer War – Napoleonic Prisoners – Admiral Villeneuve – Admiral Cunningham – Heritage Preservation
Heavitree’s Layers of History	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	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
St German’s: Cornwall’s Hidden Gem of Church, Estate and Engineering Prowess	Cornwall: St German’s Village – Old Quay Lane – River Tiddy – St German’s Viaduct – Quay – Polbathic Lake – River Lynher – Quay Road – Nut Tree Hill – St German’s Church and Priory – Eliot Estate – Stables	Saxon Bishopric – Norman Architecture – Eliot Estate – Rotten Borough – John Eliot – Railway Viaduct – Quay – Lime Burning – Victorian Railway Carriages – Pinwills – William Morris Windows – Ecclesiastical Art and Memorials
Grimspound and Hameldown: Landscapes of Settlement and War	Devon: Bennett’s Cross – Two Moors Way – Birch Tor – Hookney Tor – Grimspound – Hampden X3054 Memorial – Hameldown Tor – Grimspound – Two Moors Way – Bennett’s Cross	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
Upton Castle to Nine Stones: Changing Land Use in the Upper Lynher Valley	Cornwall: Plusha – Knighton – River Lynher – Upton Castle Ringwork – Bodmin Moor – Altarnun & North Hill Boundary – Nine Stones – Newton – Plusha	Ringwork Fortification – The Anarchy – Monk’s Cell – Launceston Priory – Medieval Field Systems – Menhir Footbridge – Bronze & Iron Age Hut Circles – Parish Boundaries – Francis Rashleigh Rodd – Neolithic Stone Circle – Logging – Wheal Annie
Chilthorne Domer: The Pinwill Sisters’ First Commission	Somerset: St Mary’s Church – Chilthorne Village – Piers Simon School in a Bag	Celtic–Norman Place‑Name – Effigy – Pinwill Sisters – HMS Serpent – China Missionary Work – Taiping Rebellion Aftermath – Dixon Family Renovation – Somme and Pozieres (1916) – Yokohama Foreign Cemetery – School in a Bag – Bosnia IFOR Deployment (1996) – Lychgate
Lewtrenchard: Eccentric Lives and Lost Battles	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	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
Montacute: Where Remarkable Stories Hide Behind Beautiful Hamstone	Somerset: Fosse Way Approach – Montacute Village – Montacute House – Baptist Church – Village Centre – Ladies Walk – Deer Park Slopes – St Michael’s Mount and Tower –Priory Gatehouse	Hamstone Architecture – Prodigy House of Sir Edward Phelips – Lord Curzon – Elinor Glyn – St Michael’s Tower – Cluniac Priory – St Catherine’s Church – Langdon Memorial – Fort Monze - Spanish Civil War Hero
Poughill, Stratton and the Stories Surrounding a Cornish Battlefield	Cornwall: Poughill – Burshill Manor – Royalist Approach Tracks – Stratton Hill Battlefield – Iron Age Fort Site – Descent to Stratton – St Andrew’s Church – Churchyard Graves – Return to Poughill via Footpaths – St Olaf’s Church	Battle of Stratton 1643 – 1713 Grenville Monument – Civil War Relics – Sandhurst Cadet Memorial – War Memorials – Medieval Knight Effigy – John Panchen – Anca van Wulfften Palthe – Royal Coat of Arms – Gurney Family Memorials
Haytor to Hound Tor: Granite, Bluebells and the Lost Settlement of Hundatora	Devon: Haytor Down – Holwell Lawn – Templer Way – Haytor Quarries – Smallacombe Rocks – Becka Brook Clapper Bridge – Greator Rocks – Hundatora Medieval Village – Black Hill	George Templer – Granite Railway – Quarrying Methods – Cuckoos – Black Death – Medieval Longhouses – Strip‑Farming Systems – Parish Boundaries
Haytor Down to Ilsington: History on the Edge of the Moor	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	Parish History – Poor Law – Victorian Somerset Scandal – Lime Kiln Restoration – Wildlife Photography Garden – Medieval Architecture – Reredos Story – Scottish Monro Connections – Local War Memorial
Among the Bluebells: Blackbury Camp, Wiscombe Park and Southleigh	Devon: Blackbury Camp – Wiscombe Park – Southleigh Hills – Valley Descent – St Lawrence’s Church – Drake Memorial – Gifford Edmonds Window – Northdown Plantation – Broaddown – Blackbury Camp	Iron Age Fortification – Bluebell Woodlands – Wiscombe Hill Climb – Bonville and Courtenay Feuds – Drake Family History – Boer War Memorial – Parish Architecture – 17th‑Century Tombs
Altarnun: A Picture Perfect Cornish Village	Cornwall: Altarnun – St Nonna’s Church – Packhorse Bridge – Mill & Leat – Penpont Water – Churchyard – Methodist Chapels – Village Lanes – Trewint Road – Five Lanes – Moorland Approaches	Early Christian Origins – Methodist Foundations – Graveyard Inscriptions – Local Craftsmen – Altarnun Font – Tudor Bench Ends – Parish Economy – Victorian Education – Rural Politics – Unionist Hall – Literary Connections
Devon Lives, Distant Worlds: Chudleigh’s Church and Cemetery	Devon: St Martin & St Mary – Fore Street – Obelisk – Town Hall Site – Clifford Street – Town Mill – Chudleigh Cemetery – Castle Dyke Hillfort	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
From Chudleigh Knighton to Chudleigh: In Search of a Bishop’s Palace	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	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
From Sowton to Farringdon: Forgotten Camps, Forgotten Servants and Forgotten Soldiers	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’	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
St Ida and St Thomas: Phoenix Churches of the Exe Valley	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	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
Exwick Cemetery: Stories from a Victorian Burial Ground	Devon: Exwick Cemetery	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
Trewint: From the Smallest Methodist Chapel in the World to the First Drops of the River Lynher	Cornwall: Wesley Cottage – Picnic Garden – Trewint – Westmoorgate – Hendra Downs – The Beacon – Source of the River Lynher – Return to Trewint	John Downes & John Nelson – Digory & Elizabeth Isbell – Prophet’s Chamber Origins – John Wesley Visits & Open‑Air Preaching – Methodist Expansion Routes – Stonemason Lineage & Victorian Sculptors – Bodmin Moor Mining Landscape – Medieval Tin Stream‑Working – Lynher Watershed – Prehistoric Hut Circles & Cairns
Sowton: A Village Holding Its Ground Against the Modern World	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	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
Stories in Stone at Exeter Higher Cemetery	Devon: Exeter Higher Cemetery	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
Pixies, Poets and Parish Splendour: Ottery St. Mary	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	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
Feniton, Fenny Bridges and Alfington: Some Surprising Connections to Cornwall, Cuba and The Solomon Islands!	Devon: Feniton – Fenny Bridges – Alfington – Woodford Barton Bridge – Patteson Cross – Old Roman Road – New Feniton – Feniton Cutting	St Andrew’s Church – Feniton Court – John Coleridge Patteson – George Selwyn & the Melanesian Mission – HMS Exeter & the River Plate – Havana – Prayer Book Rebellion Battlefield – Church of St James and St Anne – Lord Chief Justice John Duke Coleridge – Colonel J.C.M. Hoskyn – Flight Lieutenant Roy Witham – John Coleridge Patteson Memorial Cross
Clyst St Mary: The Ancient Bridge Worth Fighting For	Devon: Clyst St Mary – Frog Lane – River Clyst – Medieval Bridge – Bishop’s Court – Mill – Winslade House – St Mary’s Church – Grindle House	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
Sampford Courtenay and Honeychurch: Contrasting Churches and Rebellion	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	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
From Loughwood to Kilmington: A Walk Through England’s Layered Faith and History	Devon: Loughwood Baptist Church – Roman Road – Kilmington – Newenham Abbey – St Giles – Coryton Park – Shute Barton – Axe Valley	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
Paignton: Beneath the Arcades – The Older Paignton of Bishops, Bibles and Burials Far From Home	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	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
Marldon: From the Medieval Church with a Peculiar Tower to the Castle on the Hill	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	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
Bovey Tracey on the 380th Anniversary of the Battle of Bovey Heath	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	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
Belstone in Snow: A Walk Through Weather and Time	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	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
Leusdon and Dr Blackall’s Drive: A Winter Walk through History	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	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rupert’s First Cathedral: A Day in Wells	Somerset: Wells Cathedral - Wells Town Centre	Scissor Arches - Jesse Window - Medieval Waterways - Somerset Light Infantry - Chapter House - Vicar's Close
Wookey Hole: From Industrial Echoes to Mendip Horizons	Somerset: Wookey Hole - Ebbor Wood - Priddy - Monarch's Way - Mendip Plateau	St Mary Magdalene Church - Ebbor Gorge - Potholing - St Lawrence Church - Paper Mill
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
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
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
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
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
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
Imber and Scratchbury: Echoes of War on Salisbury Plain	Wiltshire: Imber - Heytesbury - Scratchbury Camp	British Army Training Ranges - St. Giles Church - Abandoned Village - Siegfried Sassoon - Bronze Age Forts - Wessex Way
A Single Somerset Walk Weaving Together: Sarawak, Sedgemoor, Speke, the Source of the Nile and a Stop Line	Somerset: Whitelackington - Kingstone - Dowlish Warren - Ilminster	Speke Family - Perkin Warbeck - Catherine of Aragon - Monmouth Rebellion - Raja Muda of Sarawak - The Source of the Nile - Dillington House - Lord North - Steam Carriage
In Search of Tristan and Isolde on a Civil War Battlefield in Cornwall	Cornwall: Lostwithiel – Coulson's Park – River Fowey – Saints’ Way – Castle Dore – Tristan Stone – Fowey – Hillhay – Golant – St Sampson’s – Lostwithiel	Tristan and Isolde – King Mark of Cornwall – The Tristan Stone – Castle Dore (Iron Age & Civil War) – Earl of Essex – Colonel John Were – King Charles I – Major General Skippon – New Model Army – St Sampson – Saints’ Way Missionaries – Cornish Christianity – Monmouth Rebellion