Dartmouth. Report from the History Section
From the shoreline of Dartmouth there is a sense of pride and history as Britannia Royal Naval College looks over the bustling river with its moored yachts, paddle steamer and ferries plying their trade....
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Dartmouth. Report from the Geology Section
Most of Dartmouth is built on the slates and siltstones of the Dartmouth Group which crops out in the South Hams between Adurn Point in the west and Scabbacombe Head in the east and...
Dartmouth. Report from the Entomology Section
Situated on a promontory on the sheltered western side of the Dart Estuary, bordered to the north by Old Mill Creek, Dartmouth, in the south of Devon, has a mild maritime climate ideal for...
Dartmouth. Report from the Buildings Section
Dartmouth depends on the River Dart; its situation on a sheltered natural harbour proving of such great strategic military and commercial value that development was encouraged and sustained from the early middle ages onwards....
Dartmouth. Report from the Botany Section
On the 30th January this year, the Devon Local Nature Partnership launched a list of the County’s ‘special’ species at an event at County Hall. This includes a ‘short list’ of ‘flagship’ species, the...
Facing sin: late medieval roof bosses in Ugborough church, Devon (2015)
By Dr Susan Andrew (This article appeared first in Ecclesiology Today, volume 51, January 2015.) Having completed a PhD on ‘Late Medieval Roof Bosses in the Churches of Devon’ in June 2011, and a...
The Old Devon Farm-House. Part I. (1920)
Full title: The Old Devon Farm-House. Part I. Its Exterior Aspect and General Construction. by Charles H. Laycock. (Read at Totnes, 21st July, 1920.) In these days of rapid changes and improvements, of universal...
The Athelstan Myth (1916)
By J. J. Alexander, M.A., J.P. (Read at Plymouth, 19th July, 1916.) The personality of Athelstan, eldest grandson of Alfred the Great, is for students of history a singularly attractive one. He seems to...
Stones found at Swincombe, Dartmoor (1870)
Full title: Stones found at Swincombe (Dartmoor), Probably Connected with Ancient Mining There. By P. F. S. Amery. (Read at Devonport, July, 1870.) In 1866 I was informed by a miner who worked on...
Some Old Farm Implements and Operations (1918)
By Richard Pearse Chope, B.A. (Read at Torquay, 24th July, 1918.) As the Torquay Museum possesses the only collection in the county of old farm implements, in the formation of which it was my...