The Torquay feature
Over the summer months Torquay's a busy place, of course it's bound to be, as one of the UK's top holiday spots. But if you're…
South West Devon
Totnes Rare Breeds Farm
Mums and Dads, Grandparents, there's lots for children to see at this lovely farm Easter's coming up and for many this means just one thing,…
Rule Britannia!
AT FIRST GLANCE IT MAY NOT LOOK MUCH LIKE A SHIP, perched high and dry on a hill overlooking Devon’s beautiful Dart estuary but this…
Maidencombe and Watcombe, South Devon
See our photo visual feature for the coastline of Maidencombe and Watcombe in South Devon, lying 2 miles to the north east from Torquay. Photography…
Benjamin Donn’s 1765 map of TOR BAY, Devon
An important map covering Devonshire in its entirety. A £100 award was offered for a large scale, one inch to the mile map of any…
Salcombe and Bolt Head
See our photo visual feature on the lower part of Salcombe Estuary and the Bolt Head peninsular. Photography by Nigel Jones (Editor of Devonshire magazine)…
Thurlestone Hotel – Nr Salcombe
Thurlestone Hotel was visited in October 2015, a great time of the year as it's well out of the 'tourist' season, being peaceful but still…
Newcomen Steam Engine
In 1921 a memorial was erected in Dartmouth to commemorate the town’s most famous son: local ironmonger, Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) was the first to devise…
Dartmouth featured – historic quayside town
Dartmouth is featured in the June/July issue of the Devonshire South & West issue (out now). The team at Devonshire magazine visit this historic town…
The Price of Fish
DARTMOUTH has always been a good place to eat fish. When Daniel Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe visited in the 1700s he recorded…
Brixham’s Lost Fleet
Ted Gosling recounts how he heard the story that Beer made Brixham and Brixham made the North Sea. He says that the first men to…
St Petrock’s Church at Harford
What never ceases to amaze me is how you can be ambling along some deserted lane in the middle of deep Devon countryside when a…