Devon is beautiful

[Poot]

^should be jam first

 

[twentythreedom]

That's fighting talk

 

[ska invita]

this^^^ just been in Dorset for a week, visited Arne RSPB reserve - saw Spoonbills, saw Pergrin Falcons being mobbed by Sand Martins off Portland Bill and went to my fave pub briefly as I was driving - The Square and Compass in Worth Matravers

spoonbills! you never mentioned that on the bird watching thread!

 

[ska invita]

Thanks for the recommendations for other counties but the clue is in the thread title. Where else in Devon should I pay a visit?

i know north coast around welcombe - nice cliff walks and mad beaches
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?clie...X&ei=lr8NVOTkIcSh7Ab5_oD4Bg&ved=0CBUQ8gEoATAA

 

[rubbershoes]

For off road cycling , Woodbury Common near Exeter has loads of trails

and just for being a fantastic place, Sidmouth is hard to beat. The coastal path down there is lovely

 

[Cribynkle]

just skip plymouth as anyhting other than a through route, best thing about the place is the ways out unless you've got a fetish for 1950s urban planning. cause anything interesting there that was left after the luftwaffe visited was destroyed a few years later.

if you're prepared to go over the border a little, you could use it as a base for visiting a few places. if you do old homes, then Cotehele is accessible from gunnislake station if you're ok with the uphill bits back to the station. antony is just over from the torpoint ferry. and it is rather pretty by either. given a choice, i'd do cotehele. it's an odd quirky place.

It's probably easier to get to Cothele from Calstock isn't it? Anyway - Tamar Valley line is highly recommended, gorgeous line, I used to get it to school everyday

 

[Cribynkle]

There are certainly pleasing placenames in Devon:
Abbotskirswell
Kingskirswell
Kingsteignton
Bishopsteignton
Totnes
Barnstaple
Combeinteignhead
Stokeinteignhead
Cheriton Fitzpaine

Chipshop

 

[marty21]

spoonbills! you never mentioned that on the bird watching thread!

oops!

 

[Jeff Robinson]

My favourite Devon beaches are Blackpool Sands, Bee Sands and Bantham.

Dartmouth and all around the River Dart is beautiful as well...

 

[fractionMan]

For cycling there's a cycle trail from barstable train station that goes along to the coast. From there you can go north via saunton (amazing sand dunes), croyde (great surf & a coupld of pubs) to wollacombe (more surf,pubs etc). If you've still got it in you continue on to ilfracombe (faded seaside town) and lynton/lynmouth (weird gorge like place with a water powered cliff railway). All are great in their own way and all have camp sites.

You can cycle from plymouth to burrator, or further. For a great day out you can climb up to the top of sheepstor and come back down via the pub in meavey. There are plenty of rivers around there for swimming in as well.

I've done both the above on a bike, so it's definitely possible

 

[weltweit]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Is that Bigbury?

Looks like Bigbury.

Bigbury's ace. As is Bantham.

 

[fucthest8]

Yep, South Hams FTW.

Look here
http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/

 

[rubbershoes]

Friday night was a 15 mile jaunt. To The Globe at Sampford Peverell for a pint and some cheesy chips. Then back home on the cycle path next to the M5! Lovely

 

[lizzieloo]

Who knew?
Just spent the weekend staying in Newton Abbott but visiting Dawlish and Shaldon. What a lovely area. I saw a stoat and many new birds! Teignmouth Bay and Ness Beach are stunning. Loved the brick smugglers' tunnels.
I wouldn't want to live there but I'm going back there next year for cycling and wildlife spotting.
Where else is nice to look at and full of nature?

That's the area I'm from, loads of family all round there, it's a lovely place indeed

 

[Sprocket.]

Devon is indeed beautiful, I spent a lot of my youth in the Totnes area.
Had many fabulous holidays all around the county.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

There are certainly pleasing placenames in Devon:
Abbotskirswell*
Kingskirswell*
Kingsteignton
Bishopsteignton
Totnes
Barnstaple
Combeinteignhead
Stokeinteignhead
Cheriton Fitzpaine

* That should be Abbotskerswell and Kingskerswell. You may be able to spell them - now but I wonder if you can pronounce them.

Also the pronunciation of 'Teignmouth' is problematic to strangers who often confuse it with Tynemouth. The BBC in recent years has found the correct pronunciation and even get it right when speaking in London studios. I am most impressed when they say it nowadays.

I was brought up in Torquay, but have lived near London since 1971 going back several times a year.

Also in your OP you gave Newton Abbot an extra t at the end. You are not the only person to do this. For years the train tickets issued at Paddington for Newton Abbot had an extra t. I always meant to save one as a collector's item but they spotted and corrected the error after a long while.

 

[lizzieloo]

There are certainly pleasing placenames in Devon:
Abbotskirswell
Kingskirswell
Kingsteignton
Bishopsteignton
Totnes
Barnstaple
Combeinteignhead
Stokeinteignhead
Cheriton Fitzpaine

That's a nice list for me to see, first home was in Kingskerswell (Yon Street which have always thought was a groovy name for a street), My nanny lived in Kingsteignton and my auntie lived in Combeinteignhead with a great view over to Bishopsteignton, folk usualy talk about other bits of Devon not "my" bit, you are now my hero

 

[lizzieloo]

* That should be Abbotskerswell and Kingskerswell. You may be able to spell them - now but I wonder if you can pronounce them.

Also the pronunciation of 'Teignmouth' is problematic to strangers who often confuse it with Tynemouth. The BBC in recent years has found the correct pronunciation and even get it right when speaking in London studios. I am most impressed when they say it nowadays.

I was brought up in Torquay, but have lived near London since 1971 going back several times a year.

Also in your OP you gave Newton Abbot an extra t at the end. You are not the only person to do this. For years the train tickets issued at Paddington for Newton Abbot had an extra t. I always meant to save one as a collector's item but they spotted and corrected the error after a long while.

Even though I was born in Newton Abbot I still get the urge to add an extra "t"

 

[Sprocket.]

Even though I was born in Newton Abbot I still get the urge to add an extra "t"

That would be a 'Devon T' no doubt?

 

[lizzieloo]

That would be a 'Devon T' no doubt?

Yeah the jam is on top of the cream, like it bleedin well should be.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Yeah the jam is on top of the cream, like it bleedin well should be.

Tis only they bleddy Cornish that puts the cream on top of the jam.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'll do cream on one side and jam on the other then.

 

[lizzieloo]

Tis only they bleddy Cornish that puts the cream on top of the jam.

Do they put their butter on top of the jam n'all? Contrary feckers.

 

[lizzieloo]

I'll do cream on one side and jam on the other then.

Ah the Yorkshire cream tea

 

[fizzerbird]

Devon is beautiful and a great place to live...

 

[fizzerbird]

I love Devon too, and I'm particularly fond of the area around the Kingsbridge estuary and east from there to Dartmouth.

I used to jump off the bridge at Kingsbridge

I liked Devon when I went on holiday there as a kid. We stayed in Okehampton, and did a lot of walking stuff on Dartmoor which was good. Not been since - that was 30 odd years ago. Dorset is lovely too - definitely worth a visit - the SW is a lovely part of the world.

We are not too far from there

 

[Idaho]

I thought you were in Bristol.

 

[SpookyFrank]

^should be jam first

Nonsense. The cream is basically performing the same role as butter on a piece of toast. You wouldn't put butter on top of the jam on a piece of toast, not unless you were some kind of complete idiot.

 

[SpookyFrank]

if you're going through plymouth, take a trip on the tamar valley railway.

They're planning on reopening the line from Plymouth to Tavistock I hear, which is excellent news for locals and tourists alike.