"Devon County Memories" is one of 7 titles in the new County Memories series from The Francis Frith Collection. This wonderful paperback showcases Devon's unique story with fine historical photographs, maps, traditional recipes, heritage and industry, archaeology, fascinating local facts and folklore.

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"Devon County Memories" is bursting with information snippets and local facts about Devon. Learn about Devonshire folklore, customs and sayings,  Eddystone Lighthouse,  Haunted Devon,  Ancient Dartmoor,  local trades and industries, such as Devon’s cloth trade, mining, and lace-making,  to name just a few! Read on for a few of the fascinating "Did you know...?" facts from the book.

• The Making of an Archive
• Devon County Map
• Devon - An Introduction
• North Devon
• Eastern Devon
• Devon Folklore, Customs and Sayings
• Haunted Devon
• Teignmouth, Tor Bay and the South Hams
• Making a Living
• Plymouth and the West
• Devon Food and Recipes
• Ancient Dartmoor
• Dartmoor and its Towns
• Voucher for a Free Mounted Print

• ISBN: 1-84589-314-X
• Written by Dennis Needham
• Printed to order and Despatched in 3-5 days
• Add your own inscription! - tell me more...
• 144 pages, Paperback

• The Tome Stone in Barnstaple's colonnaded Queen Anne's Walk is where merchants set down their money to make their contracts binding.
• Lundy Island off the north Devon coast is famous for its puffins. The name "Lundy" actually derives from an old Norse word for puffin. In earlier centuries the island was frequently used as a pirate stronghold, particularly by the Marisco family, who preyed on the ships using the busy port of Bristol.
• One former resident of Bideford, Mary Sexton, is immortalised by a much-quoted epitaph in the churchyard: "Here lies the body of Mary Sexton, Who pleased many a man, But never vex'd one; Not like the woman under the next stone".
• Jane Austen's happy memories of holiday in Devon caused her to set her book "Sense and Sensibility" in the Exeter area.
• The River Dart was held in some respect because of the way in which it could suddenly turn into a roaring torrent after heavy rainfall on Dartmoor, as testified by this old rhyme:
  "Dart! Dart! Cruel dart!
  Every year thou claim'st a heart!

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