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Peter Beacham (editor), Buckfast Abbey: History, Art and Architecture (Merrell, London. New York, 2017), 272 pages, 275 colour and b&w illustrations. Hardback with jacket. ISBN 978 1 8589 4650 4. £60.00 UK. This beautiful...
If any song is forever Devon, then it is Tom Pearse, or is it Uncle Tom Cobleigh? or Widdicombe Fair? Even if we can’t agree the title or the spelling, we all know of...
To John Betjeman, Launceston was the gateway to North Cornwall, with the Camel to the west, the Tamar to the east, and Bodmin Moor to the west. Of all the towns in the district,...
The Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of southwest England crop out within six juxtaposed east/west trending basins. The Launceston area lies within the Tavy Basin, close to its border with the Culm Basin to the...
The attractive mix of historic buildings in Launceston, representative of all ages and styles of architecture, complement the town’s dramatic natural setting. At the centre, and dominating so many of the vistas, stands the...
Bronze age man left his mark on the Launceston area. The town itself was probably founded by the Saxons around 900 when Bodmin was the main town in Cornwall. Launceston however housed the earliest...
The area around Launceston has a flora typical of a farmed landscape with rolling hills, small valleys, woodlands, a few wetlands and scattered rural villages, on both the Cornish and Devonian sides of the...
In October 2018, Jan Freedman, Curator of Natural History, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, gave a talk to the DA’s Forum. He shares below news of The Box in Plymouth and an exciting...
This paper by Dorothea Rowse is in pdf format and can be read using the viewer below. Alternatively the pdf file can be downloaded via this link. [pdf-embedder url=”https://devonassoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Twelfth-Century-Benefactors-Rowse-TDA-2011.pdf”] Permission to republish this paper...
The Rev. S. Baring Gould has most kindly responded to the Rector’s request, and has sent the following account of his excavations at the Dykes for insertion in our magazine. “Clovelly Dykes are the...