Instow is a picturesque fishing village situated in Bideford Bay, in North Devon. It is on the estuary where the rivers Taw and Torridge meet, between the villages of Westleigh and Yelland. It is on the South W...
Countisbury is a hamlet, approximately two miles east of Lynmouth, on the Exmoor coast in north Devon. It is close to the border with Somerset and is fourteen miles west of Minehead. Countisbury is renowned for...
Lynmouth is a coastal village in Devon, on the northern edge of Exmoor. It is situated where the West Lyn and East Lyn Rivers reach the sea, at the bottom of a seven hundred feet gorge below Lynton. Lynton and ...
Hartland is a large village close to Hartland Point, on the north west tip of Devon. It is remote, but has many craft shops and potteries. It is a centre for walking the South West Coast Path and particularly, ...
Widecombe-in-the-Moor is probably Dartmoor’s best known village. This is mainly due to the song, ‘Widecombe Fair’, of which the chorus contains the phrase, “Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all”. This has become part o...
Chagford is a small historic market town on the edge of Dartmoor, four miles from Moretonhampstead. The name, Chagford, is derived from the word "Chag", meaning gorse or broom. "Ford" relates to the crossing pl...
North Bovey is a lovingly preserved Devon village, eleven miles from Exeter, on the east side of Dartmoor. It is on a hillside above the River Bovey, from which it gets its name. The village consists of thatc...
Westward Ho! is a popular seaside resort in north Devon, near Bideford and has the distinction of being the only place name in the British Isles that has an exclamation mark in its official name. It has a long...
Lustleigh is a small village on Dartmoor in Devon, nestling in the Wrey Valley, eight miles north west of Newton Abbot. Its deeply thatched pretty granite cottages lie on moorland, surrounded by huge granite b...
Bickleigh is an attractive riverside village, four miles downstream of Tiverton on the main road to Exeter. Photographs of its thatched cottages, situated by a five arched stone bridge, are often chosen to ador...
Appledore is a quaint fishing village in North Devon, situated where the Rivers Taw and Torridge meet. Sailing is very popular and the view at low tide across a vast spread of sandbanks to the open sea, is par...
Torquay has long been regarded as one of the most glamorous resorts of the English Riviera. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a prisoner, stood on the deck of HMS Bellerophon in Tor Bay and pronounced Torqua...