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. Permission to republish this paper for research...
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...
This paper by John Clark is in pdf format and can be read using the viewer below. Alternatively the pdf file can be downloaded via this link. The author tells us that a short...
This paper by John R. Cole is in pdf format and can be read using the viewer below. Alternatively the pdf file can be downloaded via this link. Permission to republish this paper for...
Todd Gray and Sue Jackson, St Martin’s Island. An introductory history of forty-two Exeter buildings. The Mint Press, Exeter, 2017, 192 pp, full colour illustrations, £15.00, pbk, ISBN 978 1 903356–71–5 As flames engulfed...