Items in or near Devon (results page 2)

Trematon CastleCastles (1926)

The gate-houseThis is owned by the Prince of Wales, since he is Duke of Cornwall. The Norman castle was built before 1337, and is now a ruin.Zetab took a picture of this castle and put it in her Devia [...]

Keywords: castles, entrances, ruins, towers, arches, trees, roads, colour

Places shown: Saltash; Cornwall; England

Added: 2003-08-02

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St Mawes CastleCastles (1926)

The GatewaySt Mawes is opposite Falmouth on the estuary of the River Fal. It, along with its sister, Pendennis, on the other side of the river, were built between 1539 and 1545 by Henry VIII, and is a [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, bridges, arches, entrances, colour

Places shown: St Mawes; Cornwall; England

Added: 2003-07-03

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St. Michael’s Mount;Castles (1926)

The westernmost of the castles of the British Isles is in some ways the most interesting and picturesque of them all. Essentially a water-fortress girt round on all sides by a natural moat, it differ [...]

Keywords: castles, aerial photography, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: St Michael’s Mount; Cornwall; England

Added: 2008-03-05

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Chained Library in Wimborne Minster.Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

A library room with glass display cabinets in the middle of walls lined with shelves of chained books. “In a room of the eastern tower of Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, is an important collection of c [...]

Keywords: old books, pictures of books, books, libraries, greyscale

Places shown: Wimborne; Dorset; England

Added: 2005-02-06

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Lustleigh, Devonshire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From an oil-painting by Grosvenor. “Of these cottages it can truly be said that they are growths of the soil, trimmed and clipped somewhat by man, but never enough that they can be described as “works [...]

Keywords: cottages, trees, people, houses, thatched cottages, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Lustleigh; Teignbride; Devon; England

Added: 2005-09-29

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Staircase at Claverton, SomersetshireOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From Richardson’s ‘Elizabethan Architecture.’) This ornate portico leads to a hallway with a wide staircase climbing upward; there’s a carved animal, perhaps, on the newel post at the foot of the sta [...]

Keywords: staircases, steps, interiors, elizabethan architecture, entrances, doorways, arches, colums, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Claverton; Somerset; England

Added: 2018-06-06

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2106.—Inn at Charmouth.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I’m not sure if The Queens Arms is the same place. let me know!

Keywords: inns, animals, people, horses, carts, streets, cobbles, christmas, colour

Places shown: Charmouth; Dorset; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Corfe Village and CastleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

There has been a castle on this site for well over a thousand years. The buildings there now were started in the 11th century, but were slighted (made insignificant, or at least indefensible) after t [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Corfe Castle; Wareham; Dorset; England

Added: 2006-10-31

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Overview map of Cornwall, EnglandHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Cornwall; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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Overview map of Dorset, EnglandHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Dorset; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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Plan of Minehead [1910]Lynton, Lynmouth, Exmoor, Minehead and the Land of Lorna Doone (1910)

A map of Minehead in 1910 or perhaps a little before. It shows the Great Western Railway Station and the Pier. Note that North is not at the top. 1910 census for Minehead lists residents by street, al [...]

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Minehead; Somerset; England

Added: 2006-01-16

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[p.107] Restormel Castle, CornwallCastles (1926)

The Main Gate. See also Grose’s Antiquities for another picture of Restormel Castle. I had mis-labeled this illustration as Restormal, although the spelling in the URI was correct. “[..] the castle wh [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, entrances, colour

Places shown: Restormel; Lostwithiel; Cornwall; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Overview map of Somerset, EnglandHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Somerset; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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Antique Map of CornwallThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Antique Map of Cornwall

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Cornwall; England

Added: 2008-10-05

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Antique Map of DorsetshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Antique Map of Dorsetshire

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Dorset; England

Added: 2008-10-05

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Stratton, CornwallIllustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Norman] STRATTON. A very uncommon Normon Font, but so plain in design and execution as to render description almost unnecessary. The bowl is cup-shaped, with a single round moul [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, norman remains, fonts, colour

Places shown: Stratton; Cornwall; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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ClevedonThe British Isles (1905)

Many are the pleasant and busy towns and villages which look forth upon [the River Severn at the Bristol channel] in its salted and merged condition and know it not. Of these, Clevedon alone may be in [...]

Keywords: views, water, greyscale

Places shown: Clevedon; Somerset; England

Added: 2006-02-01

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