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Caption For Ilfracombe, The Harbour C1955

On the far right, opposite the end of the pier and hidden by the Devon mist, is Larkstone Cove, site of a lime kiln where Welsh coal burnt Welsh limestone to produce the lime that was vital to regulate

Caption For Ilsington, The Village And Church C1965

The latter are decorated with the only carved poppy-heads in Devon.

Caption For Beer, Beach 1898

One of Devon's most notorious smugglers, Jack Rattenbury, lived locally two centuries ago.

Caption For Paignton, Gerston Hotel 1907

The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.

Caption For Babbacombe, The Beach 1925

John Keats was enchanted with the waterside scenery at Babbacombe when he visited, and declared that it offered the finest prospects he had seen in Devon.

Caption For Exmouth, Rolle Street 1895

Exmouth prospered as a holiday resort - the first in Devon - from the early 18th century, coming into its own when the Continent was closed to visitors during the Napoleonic Wars.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other side of the valley of the River Devon

Caption For Tiverton, The Weir C1955

It is remarkable that instead of running that way, it picks its way across Devon for 55 miles before emptying into the English Channel at Exmouth.

Caption For Landkey, Village C1955

Before the link road between the M5 and Barnstaple was built, Landkey was on the main road out of North Devon.

Caption For Axmouth, The Village 1898

Axmouth is one of Devon's loveliest villages, and boasts one of Britain's finest and most unspoiled Norman churches.

Caption For Kilmington, The New Inn C1960

Most of East Devon's public houses are extremely ancient, and have served as places of refreshment for centuries.

Caption For Gunnislake, The Village 1908

To the right, Newbridge Hill descends to the Tamar crossing into Devon, with a large chapel on the bend.

Caption For Bucks Mills, The Village 1906

The landscape is far more rugged, and the climate less mild; local writer Charles Kingsley described the weather as combining 'the soft warmth of south Devon with the bracing freshness of the Welsh mountains

Caption For Branscombe, General View 1931

The village is certainly one of Devon's prettiest, not least for its setting, strung in a series of hamlets around the junction of several pastoral and wooded combes.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme.

Caption For Braunton, Village And Church 1936

'The Biggest Village in Devon' is how Braunton likes to be known.

Caption For Cremyll, Point And Hms Impregnable 1904

Cremyll has long been a crossing place from the Rame peninsula to the Devon side of the Tamar estuary.

Caption For Woodbury, The Village C1960

The River Otter meets the sea just to the east of Budleigh Salterton after a 30-mile journey across Somerset and East Devon.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, View From The Memorial C1955

This Roman road runs from the mouth of the River Humber in the north-east of England to Devon in the south-west.

Caption For Beer, The Church 1922

The stone was used extensively for the arcades of many Devon churches.