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In the distance we see the great cliff of High Peak - one of the highest points along the Devon coast.

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.

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.

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.

Before the link road between the M5 and Barnstaple was built, Landkey was on the main road out of North Devon. Its long, straggly nature is clear from this photograph.

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

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

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

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

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.

This Roman road runs from the mouth of the River Humber in the north-east of England to Devon in the south-west. So you could say that it has been on the tourist route for thousands of years.

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

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

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

'The Biggest Village in Devon' is how Braunton likes to be known. This view is of St Brannock's Church.

Exmouth has a good claim to be the first resort in Devon. Wars with France between 1793 and 1815 prevented the wealthy doing the 'Grand Tour', and so they came to Exmouth instead.

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme. Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.

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.

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

This one was built by the Chichester family in the 18th century; it burned Welsh limestone, which was held to be superior to the Devon limestone.

Now in Cornwall, Mount Edgecumbe, from where this picture was taken, was once part of Devon. The nearby vil- lage of Kingsand still has a stone showing where the boundary used to lie.

In 1968, when work was underway on a new Devon Bridge, timber piles and some stonework were discovered on the river bed.

The trees in the park have all been chamfered up to a certain height to prevent them being grazed by the Bankes family's famous herd of Red Devon cattle.

The unusual octagonal lantern was installed in the 15th century when Colyton was one of the three richest wool towns in Devon. The clock was made in 1710 by Lewis Pridham of Crediton.