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Yarcombe is situated in a beautiful fold of the Blackdown Hills, one of the least spoiled parts of East Devon.

Budleigh Golf Club was created on what had been common land on the cliffs to the west of the town, and is now known as East Devon Golf Club.

Before being overtaken by Plymouth a couple of decades ear- lier, Brixham was the leading fishing port in Devon. At one time, there were almost 300 trawlers employing 1600 seamen.

This follows the course of a much older road, the Roman 'Fosse Way', which runs from the 'colonia' of Lincoln to Axminster in Devon, built as a military road around 47 AD.

Lace was made in east Devon. Here, in a rather posed photograph, a well-dressed family stand outside a pleasant house in Beer with lace being worked in the foreground.

Devonport stands to the west of the city of Plymouth, and is the newest of the three towns that make up Devon's largest urban area.

The ancestral home of the earls of Devon is open to visitors; it has a large herd of deer roaming the finre grounds overlooking the River Exe. This belvedere was built in 1773.

Rudyard Kipling attended the school between 1878 and 1882, and later based 'Stalky and Co' on his experiences on the Devon coast.

Branscombe is strung out down a deep valley running from the Devon downlands to the sea at Branscombe Mouth.

Branscombe is strung out down a deep valley running from the Devon downlands to the sea at Branscombe Mouth.

This mighty copper mine scarred the slopes north of Gunnislake on the Devon side of the River Tamar. Here miners blasted the lodes in deep melancholy vaults.

This was once an important stopping place on the main road from Taunton to the north Devon area; now, a new road further south has removed much of the traffic from this place.

This area of the North Devon coast has acres of sandhills. These, at Saunton, were riddled with tiny beach chalets. Many survived until relatively recent times.

Lace-making has always been an important tradition in East Devon, though it would be a rare sight today to see it carried out in the street by a local cottager.

The oldest holiday town in Devon, Exmouth was popular by the early 17th century; it grew enormously during when the Napoleonic wars closed the Continent to our gentry, who had to holiday somewhere.

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.

The church of St Mary is the finest in Devon outside Exeter Cathedral.

Tavistock, one of Devon's three original Stannary Towns, lies on the banks of the Tavy, which rises high on the moors near Cut Hill and flows into the Tamar upstream of Tamerton.

Sandy Bay is Littleham's beach, offering some of the finest bathing on the East Devon coast.

Exmouth is reputed to be the oldest seaside town in Devon. People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

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.

Tiny fishing smacks still set out from the cove each day, much as they probably did in 1588 when the Spanish Armada was first sighted off the Devon coast.

The town is said to be Devon's oldest resort. The commercial port was, and is, to the left of the picture. The navigation channel is so unstable that pilots check it after each tide.

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