View allAll Photos Tagged Devon
Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and South Hams district.
Dart Lifeboat Station was reopened in 2007, the first time that a lifeboat had been stationed in the town since 1896. It has initially been kept in a temporary building in Coronation Park.
In 2010, a fire seriously damaged numerous historical properties in Fairfax Place and Higher Street. Several were Tudor and Grade I or Grade II listed buildings.
The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta takes place annually over three days at the end of August. The event sees the traditional regatta boat races along with markets, fun fairs, community games, musical performances, air displays including the Red Arrows and fireworks. A Royal Navy guard ship is often present at the event. Other cultural events include beer festivals in February and July (the latter in Kingswear), a music festival and an art and craft weekend in June, a food festival in October and a Christmas candlelit event.
The Flavel Centre incorporates the public library and performance spaces, featuring films, live music and comedy and exhibitions.
Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. Many of the scenes from the BBC's popular series Down to Earth, starring Ricky Tomlinson, were filmed at various locations around the town.
Notable tourist attractions include the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, Bayard's Cove Fort, Dartmouth Castle and the Dartmouth Steam Railway which terminates at Kingswear on the opposite bank of the river.
Boat cruises to nearby places along the coast (such as Torbay and Start Bay) and up the river (to Totnes, Dittisham and the Greenway Estate) are provided by several companies. The paddlesteamer PS Kingswear Castle returned to the town in 2013. The South West Coast Path National Trail passes through the town, and also through extensive National Trust coastal properties at Little Dartmouth and Brownstone (Kingswear). The Dart Valley Trail starts in Dartmouth, with routes either side of the River Dart as far as Dittisham, and continuing to Totnes via Cornworthy, Tuckenhay and Ashprington. The area has long been well regarded for yachting, and there are extensive marinas at Sandquay, Kingswear and Noss (approximately one mile north of Kingswear).
- Wikipedia
The-octagonal granite font has lancet-shaped panels on the sides of the bowl which Cresswell says is "modern"
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Diptford Devon
John Salmon CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1732056
I recently built up a new bike. Big thanks to:
Mutiny
Odyssey
Empire
Cult
Aaron Ross
Chase Hawk
Sean Sexton
Hanson Little
Taylor Brown
More shots from Devon's senior shoot. I'm so excited to do 4873824578 more senior shoots this year. :)
-
Nikon D90
18-105mm VR
Strobist: SB-900 w/ shoot through umbrella, camera left, triggered wirelessly
Taken on a fieldtrip to Devon Great Consols Mine near Tavistock a couple of weeks back, It was my first visit. The spoil heaps have been unvegetated for about a century now, which tells you how toxic they must still be!! I think it looks a bit Ayers Rock like. It really is a very alien landscape!
The site is located in the Tamar Valley on the Devon side of the river. Devon Great Consols is a consolidation of five adjacent mines which were worked for copper and arsenic in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At its peak, Devon Great Consols employed around 1,300 people. The mines were named mostly after the shareholders or their wives – Wheal Maria, Wheal Fanny, Wheal Anna-Maria, Wheal Josiah and Wheal Emma. The site covers 67 hectares and had the largest sulphide lode in the west of England.
It closed for good in 1930. These days, of course, a site could not be left like this, so Hemerdon, for example, will be left in a much better state once extraction has finished.
Hatchment - 1691 Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Bart m1 Margaret Bulkeley m2 Jane daughter of Sir Courtenay Pole
Quarterly of thirty, 1st, Or on a bend gules three molets argent, in dexter chief the Badge of Ulster (Bampfylde), 2nd, Or a maunch gules (Hastings), 3rd, Argent a lion rampant sable (Huxham), 4th, Argent on a fess sable three cross crosslets or a bordure azure charged with twelve bezants (Faber), 5th, Gules on a chevron or three eagles displayed sable (Cobham), 6th, Argent on a chevron sable between three roundels gules three bezants (Bolhay), 7th, Argent a bend gules between three lions’ heads erased and ducally crowned sable (Pederton), 8th, Gules crusilly argent a lion or (Pauncefoot), 9th, Argent fretty gules over all a fess azure (Cann), 10th, Argent an annulet between three escallops gules (Tourney), 11th, Argent two chevrons gules a label of three points azure (St Maur), 12th, Gules a saltire vairy sable and argent (Willington), 13th, Gules ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton ermine (Zouch), 14th, Gules seven mascles, three, three and one or (Quincy), 15th, Gules a cinquefoil pierced ermine (Leicester), 16th, Gules a pale or (Grandmeisnil), 17th, Sable a lion rampant between eight cinquefoils argent (Clifton), 18th, Argent a human heart within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules (David, Prince of Scotland), 19th, Argent a lion rampant azure (Galloway), 20th, Azure three garbs or (Peverall), 21st, Azure a wolf’s head erased erect argent (Lupus, Earl of Chester), 22nd, Azure six lions rampant or (Longespee), 23rd, Or crusilly a lion rampant azure (Lovell), 24th, Argent a bend sable a label of three points gules (St Lo), 25th, Azure a cross flory argent (Paveley), 26th, Argent three lions rampant sable (Cheverell), 27th, Gules three escallops within a bordure indented argent (De Erleigh), 28th, Azure a chevron between three swans argent (Charlton), 29th, Or three piles azure (Brian), 30th, Azure a double-headed eagle displayed argent charged with a coronet or (Leofric, Earl of Mercia), impaling, Azure semy-de-lys or a lion rampant argent (Pole)
Crest: A lion’s head erased sable ducally crowned or
- Poltimore church Devon
Info with permission = www.theheraldrysociety.com
Devon had recently only just learnt how to Backflip over hips so was dead keen on getting a photo of one. Glad he decided to ask for one at Ramp City. The park is so good for photos with the vast amount of space it has.
Body \ Nikon D800
Lens \ Nikkor 85mm
Strobe \ Canon 540EZ @ 1/8 power 80mm Right
Strobe \ Canon 540EZ @ 1/8 power 110mm Left
Triggers \ Pocket Wizards
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately 36 miles (58 km) south-west of Exeter and 193 miles (311 km) south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymouth's early history extends to the Bronze Age when a first settlement emerged at Mount Batten. This settlement continued as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until it was surpassed by the more prosperous village of Sutton founded in the ninth century, now called Plymouth. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers departed Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony, the second English settlement in what is now the United States of America. During the English Civil War, the town was held by the Parliamentarians and was besieged between 1642 and 1646.
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, Plymouth grew as a commercial shipping port, handling imports and passengers from the Americas, and exporting local minerals (tin, copper, lime, china clay and arsenic). The neighbouring town of Devonport became strategically important to the Royal Navy for its shipyards and dockyards. In 1914, three neighbouring independent towns, viz. the county borough of Plymouth, the County Borough of Devonport, and the urban district of East Stonehouse were merged, becoming the County Borough of Plymouth. In 1928, it achieved city status. During World War II, due to the city's naval importance, the German military targeted and partially destroyed the city by bombing, an act known as the Plymouth Blitz. After the war, the city centre was completely rebuilt. Subsequent expansion led to the incorporation of Plympton, Plymstock, and other outlying suburbs, in 1967.
The city is home to 262,100 (mid-2019 est.) people, making it the 30th-most populous built-up area in the United Kingdom and the second-largest city in the South West, after Bristol. It is governed locally by Plymouth City Council and is represented nationally by two MPs. Plymouth's economy remains strongly influenced by shipbuilding and seafaring but has tended toward a service economy since the 1990s. It has ferry links to Brittany (Roscoff and St Malo) and to Spain (Santander). It has the largest operational naval base in Western Europe, HMNB Devonport, and is home to the University of Plymouth. Plymouth is categorized as a Small-Port City using the Southampton System for port-city classification.
- Wikipedia
Parked at the back of Torquay Depot is Devon General 963 (GUD 750N), a former City of Oxford lowheight Bristol VRT
More shots from Devon's senior shoot. I'm so excited to do 4873824578 more senior shoots this year. :)
-
Nikon D90
18-105mm VR
Strobist: SB-900 w/ shoot through umbrella, camera left, triggered wirelessly
On a flypast at Dawlish airshow 2012, Dawlish, Devon, England.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
See my other Dawlish Airshow photos [most from previous years, but lots more yet to add from this year despite the poor weather conditions.]
Devon Dodd Devon Dodd, a Grade 8 pupil at Oakhill School in Knysna, was surfing at Buffalo Bay on Freedom Day, April 27 when he noticed a swimmer in distress.Remembering his mother's words of warning he rescued the man using his surfboard. Devon has been awarded the NSRI's WaterWise Recognitian Award, the first time that this award has been made. Photograph by Milly Adams 071 484 0375