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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.

Over the old south doorway is one of the finest tympanums in Devon, the only one to show the adoration of the Magi.

The seat of the Courtenays, the Earls of Devon, Powderham Castle was first built on this site in the late 14th century.

These two forms of transport still battle for space in the lanes of South Devon.

The great tragedian Edmund Kean performed on stage there during his tour of South Devon.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Beside him stands the post donkey, who was vital to efficient and regular deliveries in this isolated village in North Devon.

Each week, on market day, colourful stalls line the pavements of the High Street, and shoppers come from all over East Devon as they have for centuries.

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

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.