The annual reports written by Sections about their field of interest related to the location of the Annual Conference
Situated near the mouth of the Dart on a deep and safe harbour Dartmouth has great topographical and historical interest, and clearly has had and continues to have lively residents and visitors in literary...
Much of the industrial past of Dartmouth is related to its role as a port. In the 18th century the trade with Newfoundland was of major importance to the town and this provided a...
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....
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...
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 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....
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...
In the early 1600s, Tristram Risdon, when approaching the Dart near Buckfast, looked down on the: “skeleton of a huge body, whereby might be conceived what Bigness it once had, whose ruins might move...
As in many other parts of Devon, the availability of water power and local materials (wool and hides in this case) shaped the form of industry in Buckfastleigh. The Hamlyn family were the dominating...
The communities of Buckfast and Buckfastleigh are separated by a limestone hill, but are in effect the same place. The Saxon form of Buckfast is Bucfaeten or ‘stags fitness’. Buckfastleigh is in the Ley,...