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Devon (/ˈdɛvən/ DEV-ən; historically also known as Devonshire /-ʃɪər, -ʃər/ -sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west. The city of Plymouth is the largest settlement, and the city of Exeter is the county town.
Devon has a varied geography. It contains Dartmoor and part of Exmoor, two upland moors which are the source of most of the county's rivers, including the Taw, Dart, and Exe. The longest river in the county is the Tamar, which forms most of the border with Cornwall and rises in the Devon's northwest hills. The southeast coast is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and characterised by tall cliffs which reveal the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous geology of the region. The county gives its name to the Devonian geologic period, which includes the slates and sandstones of the north coast. Dartmoor and Exmoor have been designated national parks, and the county also contains, in whole or in part, five national landscapes.
In the Iron Age, Roman and the Sub-Roman periods, the county was the home of the Dumnonii Celtic Britons. The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain resulted in the partial assimilation of Dumnonia into the kingdom of Wessex in the eighth and ninth centuries, and the western boundary with Cornwall was set at the Tamar by king Æthelstan in 936. (Full article...)
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- Image 1Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth mourning their lovers, who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792 (from Plymouth)
- Image 2Cliffs in Devon (from Devon)
- Image 4Siege of Plymouth, 1643 (from Plymouth)
- Image 6Civic Centre, completed 1962, symbolic of the Post War 'Heroic Modernism' of the Welfare State; a listed building since 2007 (from Plymouth)
- Image 7Oil on canvas painting by an unknown artist c.1870. These houses were later demolished to make way for St Edmund's Church. The painting depicts the edge of the River Exe flowing under three arches of the Old Exe Bridge, with houses on the bridge and on the river bank, St Edmund's Church can be seen in the top left. (from Exeter)
- Image 8Northeastward view of Plymouth Sound from Mount Edgcumbe Country Park in Cornwall, with Drake's Island (centre) and, behind it from left to right, the Royal Citadel, the fuel tanks of Cattedown, and Mount Batten; in the background, the hills of Dartmoor. (from Plymouth)
- Image 10Lamp standard from the 1905 Exe bridge, installed at Butts Ferry, on Exeter Quayside, in 1983 (from Exeter)
- Image 12The River Exe (from Exeter)
- Image 14Charter map of Sutton harbour and Plymouth in 1540 (from Plymouth)
- Image 16Naval War Memorial (from Plymouth)
- Image 18St Michael's Church and Episcopal Building (from Exeter)
- Image 20Geological map of Wales & Southwest England (from Devon)
- Image 21Exeter Civic Centre (from Exeter)
- Image 26The Exeter Riddle Sculpture in Exeter High Street, created by artist Michael Fairfax and installed in 2005 (from Exeter)
- Image 28Population pyramid of Exeter (district) in 2021 (from Exeter)
- Image 34The Roland Levinsky Building – Faculty of Arts of the University of Plymouth (from Plymouth)
- Image 36Prysten House, Finewell Street, 1498, is the oldest surviving house in Plymouth, and built from local Plymouth Limestone and Dartmoor granite (from Plymouth)
- Image 37Population pyramid of Plymouth (unitary authority) in 2021 (from Plymouth)
- Image 39John Lewis Building (right), adjacent to Waterstones (left) in the busy high street (from Exeter)
- Image 41An illustration of Exeter in 1563, entitled Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) urbs primaria in comitatu Devoniae (from Exeter)
- Image 42Inter-city trains at Plymouth station, operated by Great Western Railway (from Plymouth)
- Image 43Exeter St Davids Railway Station (from Exeter)
- Image 45Armada Way looking north (from Plymouth)
- Image 47Laver Building, University of Exeter (from Exeter)
- Image 50The High Street ca. 1895 (from Exeter)
- Image 51Exeter Canal Basin (from Exeter)
- Image 52Exe Flood Relief Channel built after the floods of 1960 (from Exeter)
- Image 53The beach at Westward Ho!, North Devon, looking north towards the shared estuary of the rivers Taw and Torridge (from Devon)
- Image 54Elliot Terrace, Plymouth Hoe (from Plymouth)
- Image 55Exeter International Airport (from Exeter)
- Image 56the 'Invincible' Spanish Armada, 1588 (from Plymouth)
- Image 58Frontispiece to Shapter's "History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832" (from Exeter)
- Image 59Barnfield Theatre (from Exeter)
- Image 60MV Pont-Aven: Brittany Ferries service to Roscoff, France and Santander, Spain in Millbay Docks (from Plymouth)
- Image 66County Hall, Exeter. Headquarters for Devon County Council. (from Devon)
- Image 68The Cathedral Green after a rare snowfall (from Exeter)
- Image 71Unloading mail by hand from the Sir Francis Drake at Millbay Docks, March 1926 (from Plymouth)
- Image 73The coat of arms of Devon County Council (from Devon)
- Image 74A portion of Exeter's city wall, formed of both Roman and medieval stones (from Exeter)
- Image 79The Higher Market, Exeter, in 1943; at this time the larger firms such as Mac Fisheries had joined the smaller shopkeepers' stalls in the market, which, before the war, along with neighbouring Goldsmith Street, was earmarked for demolition; a new Civic Centre was to be built on the site. (from Exeter)
- Image 80Torquay sea front during Storm Emma – March 2018 (from Devon)
- Image 81Grade I listed Town Hall, Column and Library in Devonport (from Plymouth)
- Image 82Princesshay Shopping Centre with Exeter Cathedral in the background (from Exeter)
- Image 83Watercolour by Olive Wharry circa 1942 of St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter, after the Blitz. In the early hours of 4th May 1942 a 250kg bomb fell directly on St Sidwells. The church tower was left standing but was so badly damaged that it was pulled down shortly after. A replacement church was built on the site. From the Royal Albert Memorial Museum's collection (63/2004/4). (from Exeter)
- Image 84The flag of the historic county of Devon (from Devon)
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Did you know...
- ... that Plymouth's lighthouse, Smeaton's Tower (pictured), was dismantled and then rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe as a memorial?
- ... that Devon is the third largest of the English counties and has a population of 1,109,900?
- ... that the name Devon derives from the name of the Celtic people who inhabited the southwestern peninsula of Britain at the time of the Roman invasion?
- ... that Devon was one of the first areas of England settled following the end of the last ice age?
- ... that the St Nicholas Priory in Exeter is being restored with the same methods that were used 500 years ago?
- ... that Devon is the only county in England to have two separate coastlines?
- ... that there was no established coat of arms for Devon until 1926?
- ... that the English Riviera Geopark in Torbay is the world's only urban Geopark?
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