Books about Devon (other than Dartmoor and Exmoor)

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Exeter has much to show for its 2000 years of history. This brief history will help readers understand the wealth of historic evidence that survives today, from Roman walls to 21st century developments.

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Cob and thatch are archetypal West Country building materials. This book examines their history, and contains interviews with today's practitioners of these ancient crafts. Colour throughout.

Devon place names      Robert Hesketh

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Every Devon place name has a story to tell, usually a very old story, going back to Saxon times or even earlier.

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13 drives tracing the pre-turnpike roads of Devon, as mapped in 1675.

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Between 1700 and 1850, smuggling was a huge industry in Devon, actively supported by members of all social classes, but it was not romantic. This book gives a balanced view of 'free trade'.

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This book suggests places to visit, including saw-toothed reefs, chalk landslip, tors and an extinct volcano, to see the very best geological features in Devon. The author gives simple explanations, as well as directions for getting there.

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Far removed from the powerful influence of London, Devon developed in its own way, but with superb ports on two coastlines, it has always been open to the wider world...

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An introduction to the development of the railway system and its subsequent history, with many evocative old photographs, by a prize-winning local historian.

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Restaurant owner Margaret Wilson provides a mouth-watering selection of her own Devon recipes.

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Illustrated with many remarkable aerial photographs, the author follows the course of South Devon's most famous river, from Dartmoor, through the historic towns of Buckfastleigh, Totnes and Dartmouth to the sea.

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In Devon, the author states, 'it seems there is a subtle link between this world and the next; where centuries do not matter and time, occasionally, stands still'.

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Accounts from local people and holiday-makers of ghostly apparitions in towns, villages and the countryside of North Devon (defined here as everywhere north of the A30 excluding Exeter).

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The popular press delights in 'The Beast of Exmoor' and 'The Beast of Bodmin' but what is the truth behind these apparent sightings of big cats in the South West? Chris Moiser has been investigating for many years.

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Photographs with extended captions of the most dramatic shipwrecks along the whole of Devon's south coast, including every type of craft from a battleship to an Amazon paddle steamer.

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Drake is known by some as a spotless hero, warm, generous and compassionate, and by others as an arrogant, greedy and villainous pirate. This book uncovers the real man, the truth behind the legend.

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One of Devon's greatest writers describes the lives of six miscellaneous villains and confidence tricksters.

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Restaurant owner Margaret Wilson follows up her successful Devonshire cookbook with a range of vegetarian recipes using local ingredients.

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22 superb paintings, by one of Devon's leading watercolorists, of coastal scenes stretching along the Devon coast from Beer to Bantham, with personal commentary and background information about each place.

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In 1675 John Ogilby, a cartographic publisher, mapped for the very first time the highways of England and Wales. Paul White discovered that in the West Country most of this ancient pre-turnpike road system has, amazingly, survived – as lanes, footpaths and other rights of way. This book contains Ogilby's original maps (approximately 800 miles of roads in Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall) and, for Devon and Cornwall, provides an analysis of the routes as they appear today in OS maps and on the ground. Essential for local historians, map enthusiasts and anyone interested in history who wishes to explore these 'roads that time forgot'.

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Watercolour paintings, with personal anecdotes, capturing the glory and grit of steam from 1830 to the 1960s. Nick Luff, a former railway fireman, was a volunteer on the South Devon Railway.