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Spinster's 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!

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.

Lyme Regis straddles the border between Dorset and Devon, between two stretches of very unstable coastline.

This was once a major sport: Polkinghorne, as Cornish Champion, fought in front of a crowd of 17,000 when he faced Devon Champion Abraham Cann in 1826.

Tavistock's wealth was generated in early Victorian times by the nearby Devon Great Consols mine, which was dug on land owned by the 7th Duke of Bedford.

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.

This wonderful view shows the East Devon coast from the great cliff of High Peak to distant Exmouth, circling part of the great sweep of Lyme Bay.

Crockern Tor, a mile to the north, is the site of the Devon Stannary Parliament which sat from 1305 to 1749.

In 1971, Devon council took over the canal from British Waterways and have retained it as a leisure amenity ever since.

Though never one of Devon's more fashionable resorts, it has a charm of its own and an attractive setting.

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

The Exe was one of Devon's richest salmon rivers, although as early as the 19th century concern was being expressed about the level of the stocks - vast numbers were taken when they were on their way upstream

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.

Cruciform in plan, it is early 14th-century (one of only seven remaining in Devon) and contains the finest collection of monuments in the county.

The land behind the long-disappeared beach huts is part of the Royal North Devon Golf Club.

Chagford was declared one of the first Devon Stannary towns in 1305, but by the late 16th century the tin was worked out and the town turned to spinning wool.

Pilton is an ancient settlement, one of King Alfred's four original Devon burhs (burh means 'defended place'), and was built to guard the estuary.

Hope is one of the more remote corners of Devon, located on the west side of the South Hams, six miles from Kingsbridge.

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

On the far right, opposite the end of the pier and hidden by the Devon mist, is Larkstone Cove, site of a lime kiln where Welsh coal burnt Welsh limestone to produce the lime that was vital to regulate

The latter are decorated with the only carved poppy-heads in Devon. In 1586 the Elizabethan dramatist John Ford was baptised here.

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.

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.