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Nearing the coast, in a steep wooded combe 400 feet above the sea, Culbone's church is well-known to walkers along the Somerset and North Devon Coast Path , but is inaccessible by public road

As much as any other, this view illustrates the timelessness of North Devon.

These Cretaceous rocks mark the eastern end of the Devon and Dorset World Heritage Site that is popularly known as the Jurassic Coast.

Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner, placed there in 1922 and still running today; Lloyd's Bank (centre left), which took over the earlier Devon

With its steep, winding streets and pretty cottages, there is a definite hint of Devon or Cornwall about it.

This old woman is 'scratting' (scratching) the sands for the dark-coloured Devon cockles.

Golf was hardly played outside Scotland until the 1860s, when the first English club, the North Devon at Westward Ho!

By far the most important trade at Runcorn was china clay from Devon and Cornwall, bound for the Potteries.

The abbey was founded in 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers, afterwards Lord of the Island and Earl of Devon.

Here eleven generations of Kirkhams resided, and became involved with important offices in Devon.

It was 1,900 feet long and constructed from Devon limestone.

An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797.

This old woman is 'scratting' (scratching) the sands for the dark-coloured Devon cockles.

Golf was hardly played outside Scotland until the 1860s, when the first English club, the North Devon at Westward Ho!

Burials were forbidden within the town, and a plague pit was opened at the southern end of Millgate near the bridge over the Devon.

This mansion on Lyme's western cliffs, a mile beyond Ware, was the far point on Jane Austen's walk from Dorset into Devon in 1804.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

Covering three acres, it controlled the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Devon.

The Devon is in reality a branch of the Trent, but it played a vital role in Newark's commercial success.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading