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April 2020
Cancelled: Visit to Orchard Wyndham (Buildings Section)
All DA events up to 30 June have been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. See our dedicated page for the latest information. Orchard Wyndham: A home for over 700 years Sitting in a…
Find out more »June 2020
Cancelled: Visit to Tor Royal (Buildings Section)
All DA events up to 30 June have been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. See our dedicated page for the latest information. Tor Royal, Princetown, was built in the late eighteenth century for…
Find out more »July 2020
Visit to Mount Edgcumbe (Buildings Section)
Mount Edgcumbe is now in Cornwall, but from 705 AD to 1844 that side of the River Tamar down to Rame Head was in Devon. It included the now-lost village of West Stonehouse, facing…
Find out more »September 2020
Visit to Buckfast Abbey (Buildings Section)
Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery. The first Benedictine abbey founded in 1018 was followed by a Cistercian abbey constructed in 1134. The monastery was surrendered for dissolution in 1539, with…
Find out more »October 2020
Visit to Cotehele (Buildings Section)
Cotehele is a medieval granite and slate-stone manor house, with Tudor and later additions, set high on the banks of the River Tamar. Built by the Edgcumbe family before their move further downriver, it…
Find out more »November 2020
AGM 2020 (Buildings Section)
Section AGM at the Town Hall, Great Torrington. The Town Hall dominates the centre of the town and was for several centuries the hub of the civic, social and judicial life of this ancient…
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