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Back to feedBeacon Castle
Beacon Castle is an Iron Age hill fort close to Parracombe in Devon, England. It is situated on a hilltop some 290 metres (950 ft) above sea level, overlooking the Heddon Valley.
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View pinLynton Village railway station
Lynton Village railway station is a station in Lynton, Devon, England served by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, a water-powered funicular railway.
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View pinMyrtlebury
Myrtlebury is an Iron Age enclosure or 'spur' hill fort situated close to Lynmouth in Devon, England. The fort is effectively the northeast of a hillside forming a spur or promontory above the steep valley of the East Lyn River to the east of the village, at approximately 150 metres (490 ft) above sea level.
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View pinKilarrow Parish Church
Kilarrow Church is a Church of Scotland parish church, overlooking and serving Bowmore on the island of Islay.
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View pinBowmore distillery
Bowmore distillery is a Islay single malt Scotch whisky distillery located on the Isle of Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides.
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View pinLoch Indaal
Loch Indaal is a sea loch on Islay, the southernmost island of the Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. Together with Loch Gruinart to the north, it was formed by the Loch Gruinart Fault, which branches off the Great Glen Fault.
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View pinRAF Bowmore
Royal Air Force Bowmore or more simply RAF Bowmore is a former seaplane station located in Bowmore, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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View pinEaster Fearn
Easter Fearn is a small settlement in the Ross-shire area of the Highland council area in Scotland, on the A836 and B9176 roads it is 3 miles from Ardgay and is 6 miles from the A9. Easter Fearn is on the Dornoch Firth and is home to Strudie Hill. Easter Fearn is adjacent to Wester Fearn, Fearn Lodge and Mid Fearn, the Latter of which had a railway station.
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View pinArdmore, Easter Ross
Ardmore is a village on the south shore of Dornoch Firth in Tain, Ross-shire, Highland and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
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View pinMigdale Hoard
The Migdale Hoard is a group of early Bronze Age jewellery discovered by workmen blasting a granite knoll behind Bonar Bridge, Scotland, near what is known as "Tulloch Hill" in May 1900. It is named after the nearby Loch Migdale.
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View pinBalleigh
Balleigh is a small village, 0.5 miles southeast of Edderton and 7 miles west of Tain, in eastern Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
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View pinMid Fearn Halt railway station
Mid Fearn Halt was a small railway station in Mid Fearn in Ross-shire in Scotland. The station was provided to serve Fearn Lodge.
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View pinRoborough, Torridge
Roborough is a village and civil parish 5.5 mi (8.9 km) from Great Torrington, in Devon, England. Situated topographically on the plateau between the Torridge and Taw Rivers, the parish covers 1,258 ha and contains a population of some 258 parishioners. It is surrounded by a pastoral landscape of rectangular fields, high hedges and scattered farmsteads.
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View pinTorrington railway station
Torrington railway station was a railway station located in Great Torrington, Devon. It was closed by British Railways in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts.
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View pinBrightley, Chittlehampton
Brightley was historically the principal secondary estate within the parish and former manor of Chittlehampton in the county of Devon, England, situated about 2 1/4 miles south-west of the church and on a hillside above the River Taw. From the early 16th century to 1715 it was the seat of the Giffard family, whose mansion house occupied the moated site immediately to the west of the present large farmhouse known as Brightley Barton, a Grade II listed building which incorporates some elements of
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View pinSt Giles in the Wood
St Giles in the Wood is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. The village lies about 2.5 miles east of the town of Great Torrington, and the parish, which had a population of 566 in 2001 compared with 623 in 1901, is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Huntshaw, Yarnscombe, High Bickington, Roborough, Beaford, Little Torrington and Great Torrington. Most of the Victorian terraced cottages in the village, on the east side of the church, were bui
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View pinTorrington F.C.
Torrington Football Club are an English association football club based in Great Torrington, Devon. Founded in 1908, the club currently compete in the South West Peninsula League Premier Division East. Based at Vicarage Field, Torrington have previously played in the Western League, South Western League and Devon and Exeter League, and rejoined the North Devon League in 2007.
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View pinPotheridge
Potheridge is a former Domesday Book estate in the parish of Merton, in the historic hundred of Shebbear, 3 miles south-east of Great Torrington, Devon, England. It is the site of a former grand mansion house re-built by George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608-1670) circa 1660 on the site of the former manor house occupied by his family since at the latest 1287. It was mostly demolished in 1734 after the death of the widow of his son Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle.
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View pinTaddiport
Taddiport is a hamlet in North Devon, England, near Great Torrington. The name is believed to derive from toad, a place where toads were found. In the Middle Ages it was a leper colony. A field system next to the hamlet is still divided up as for the medieval strip system of farming. During the years of operation of the Rolle Canal the canal had a quay across the river Torridge from Taddiport. Taddiport appears on the early 15th century Evesham world map; its inclusion has led many to believe th
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View pinTorrington and Marland Railway
The Torrington and Marland Railway was a 3 ft narrow gauge built to carry clay from the quarries at Clay Moor to Torrington in north Devon.
Local GemsTorrington and Marland Railway
View pinLittle Torrington
Little Torrington is a village and a civil parish near Great Torrington, in the Torridge district, north Devon, England. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Little Torrington was 420 and in 2011 it was 376, according to census data. Little Torrington has the Church of St Giles and the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene.
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View pinPannier Market, Torrington
The Pannier Market in Great Torrington in Devon is a Victorian pannier market of 12 small indoor shops - six either side of a narrow cobbled lane built in 1842 and restored in 1999. The Market House building at the front of the complex has been a Grade II* listed building on the Historic England Register since 1951.
Local GemsPannier Market, Torrington
View pinChittlehampton
Chittlehampton is a village and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England, about 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Barnstaple. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 820.
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