Hidden away in Haldon Forest, just a short hop from the city of Exeter, is an Obelisk that was originally constructed as an aid to sailors navigating up and down the Exe Estuary, but which is now completely obscured by large trees. Haldon Forest Park Haldon Forest is an area south of Exeter ...
The Cerne Abbas Giant: A fearsome club wielding chalk hill figure
One of the largest and most intriguing of all the British chalk figures can be found in the sleepy backwaters of Dorset, deep in the heart of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. The fearsome Cerne Giant is cut into the steep chalk hillside above the picturesque village of Cerne Abbas. The Cerne Abbas Giant and ...
Here’s Where to Find the Best View of Warwick Castle
If you were to cross a theme park and historic mansion house, then the resulting attraction would be something along the lines of Warwick Castle. Once the regal home of the Earls of Warwick, one of whom even acted as Kingmaker to Richard the III, today the castle sits in the very heart of the town ...
Buckfastleigh Church & Richard Cabell’s Tomb: The Inspiration for the Hound of the Baskervilles
The gleaming spire of Buckfastleigh Church stands proudly on the hill rising high above the small market town of Buckfastleigh and the famous Buckfast Abbey. What isn’t obvious from a distance is that this ancient church is just an empty shell - a ruin, albeit a fairly well preserved one. It is the ...
Does Bovey Tracey Parish Church really have links to Thomas Becket and Henry VII?
Fact and fiction become almost inseparable the further you delve into the distant past and this is particularly true in the case of the Parish Church in Bovey Tracey. According to local folklore, the parish church was built as a penance by the descendant of one of the perpetrators of Thomas Becket’s ...
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- …
- 20
- Next Page »