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A feature of several East Devon villages is a brook running alongside a main street.

Not far away is Coryton Park, rebuilt in 1754-56 by Benedictus Mawood Tucker, afterwards Sheriff of Devon.

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme.

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 line was eventually completed in 1890 - 41 years after the rival South Devon Railway reached Plymouth.

In 1282, the Countess of Devon, aggrieved with the merchants of Exeter, constructed a weir across the River Exe obstructing access to the city's port.

Axmouth, in East Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

A network of footpath and bridleways offers excellent views across East Devon's pastoral landscape.

At this time, views such as these could be replicated a hundred times throughout the county of Devon. Thatch, unsurfaced road and total absence of traffic was the norm.

Clay has been mined commercially in South Devon since the 17th Century.

It contains 17th-century panelling which originally came from Devon. Behind it rises the slim tower of St Michael's Church, a late Victorian construction.

Both are delightful, with old Devon cob cottages and attractive gardens in an area of fine scenery. It is hard to imagine the crowded streets of Plymouth only a few miles away.

The Devon and Somerset Stores, seen here amongst many excellent shop fronts, has posters in the window advertising Frister Rossmann Sewing Machines at £3 7s 6d and £2 18s 6d.

It was the library for years, and today it is home to the North Devon Museum.

Spinsters' Rock is in Devon, near Drewsteignton. The three uprights also give rise to its name: it is recounted that three spinsters erected this monument before breakfast!

Hawkchurch is situated in wild and wooded country, close to where Devon slips imperceptibly into Dorset.

Starkey, Knight & Ford's brewery was in Tiverton, and their trademark black horses could at one time be seen all over Devon.

The red sandstone cliffs of East Devon break into the green and pastoral valley of the River Sid; Sidmouth lines the slopes of the gap.

But farmers from all over South Devon still bring their animals to the town for the Wednesday livestock sales.

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

Its 'Gothick' design is conspicuous in a particularly beautiful corner of Devon, alongside the river Taw.

The Devon historian Hoskins, who seems not to have been a fan of Victorian church building, said 'It has nothing to recommend it'.

Once the town manufactured and exported cloth and built ships; it imported tobacco and salted cod, and wool from the Continent for the Devon weaving industry.

Woodbury is one of Devon's largest parishes, and it occupies the great vale between Woodbury Common and the flood plains of the Exe.