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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
He was also publisher and proprietor of the local newspaper, the full title of which was the `Bridport News & Dorset, Devon and Somerset Advertiser`.
With its steep, winding streets and pretty cottages, there is a definite hint of Devon or Cornwall about it.
The curious broach spire - one of three in North Devon - was added in 1389, paid for by the corporation.
To the left is the confectionary shop of H Bovett; then comes the Volunteer Inn, and in the distance the premises of the East Devon Motor Company - unchanged in use today, for it is still
He was also publisher and proprietor of the local newspaper, the full title of which was the 'Bridport News & Dorset, Devon and Somerset Advertiser'.
Beside him stands the post donkey, who was vital to efficient and regular deliveries in this isolated village in North Devon.
The 19th-century author Charles Kingsley was passionately fond of Devon; Rose of Torridge and the Brotherhood of the Rose feature in his best-known book, 'Westward Ho!'
The Saxons were here and had a mint, one of four in Devon.
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
Fishermen from all over Devon and Cornwall worked the cod stocks of the Grand Banks, and Topsham sent more ships across the Atlantic than any other port.
Exmouth is Devon's oldest seaside resort, and this was reflected in the construction of several early and very prominent hotels.
The construction workyard on the Devon bank has been cleared, but the wooden ketch 'Garlandstone' can be seen being built at James Goss's shipyard just behind the viaduct.
Beer was the birthplace in 1788 of the smuggler Jack Rattenbury, who lived a life of adventure landing untaxed cargoes along much of the Devon coast.
Ashburton was the terminus of the nine-mile branch of the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon line, which was completed in 1872.
It was installed on a nearby hilltop in the year this picture was taken, before being transferred to Hartland in North Devon in 1955.
A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.
The only other one in Devon is at Ashwater.
Before railways and metalled roads, there were only two main routes into Devon.
An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797.
