Reviews of books related to Devon.
Harper, F. (Ed.). 2020. Outstanding Seale-Haynians. The Seale-Haynians Club, Short Run Press Limited, 144pp, hardback ISBN 9791527265882, £10. This book is essentially a Who’s Who of distinguished alumni who graduated from Seale-Hayne Agricultural College...
Brian W. Pugh, Paul R. Spiring and Sadru Bhanji, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon. A Complete Tour Guide & Companion (MX Publishing Ltd., London, 2010), xvi + 255 pages. Softback. ISBN 9781904312864....
E. H. T. Whitten, Bonehill – Evolution of a Dartmoor Hamlet within Widecombe-in-the-Moor. (Ryelands, Halsgrove, Wellington, 2009), 128 pages, colour and b & w illustrations. Hardback. ISBN 9781906551155. £19.99. Bonehill is a fascinating cluster...
Charles Scott-Fox, Moorstone Barton: A Mediaeval Manor (Charles Scott-Fox for John Maunder Esq., Halberton, 2009), viii + 57 pages, 45 mainly colour illustrations, including maps and plans. Softback. ISBN 9870954701369. £10.00 plus £2.00 p...
Stephen Rippon, Peter Claughton and Chris Smart, Mining in a Medieval Landscape – The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley (University of Exeter Press, 2009), xiii + 207 pages, numerous b & w illustrations...
Ian Mercer, Dartmoor – A Statement of its Time (Harper Collins, London, 2009), xiv + 402 pages, numerous colour illustrations. ISBN 9780007184996 (hardback) and 9780007185009 (softback). £50. 00 (hardback), £30. 00 (softback). This substantial...
Michael Fardell, John Lethbridge: The most successful treasure diver of the eighteenth century (The Historical Diving Society, 2010), ix + 101 pages, illustrated. Hardback. ISBN 9780954383442. £24. This is a work of interest not...
Ron Wawman (comp.), Never Completely Submerged: The Story of the Squarson of Lewtrenchard as revealed in The Diary of Sabine Baring-Gould (Grosvenor House Publishing, Guildford, 2009), 315 pages, illustrated. Softback. ISBN 9781907211034. £9.99. Bill...
Colin G. Maggs, Devonshire Railways (Halsgrove, Wellington, 2010), 160 pages, profusely illustrated in monochrome. Hardback. ISBN 9781841149127. £19.99. This book provides an overall history of Devon’s railway heritage. Its emphasis is on the development...
C. B. Newham, Some Old Devon Churches: A Tribute to John Stabb Volume I (DAE Publishing, 2009), ii + 155 pages, profusely illustrated with colour photographs; one map. Hardback. ISBN 9781906265014. £60. Between 1908...