In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome & dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured & burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession & sexual hysteria in history. ...

Under the burning heat of the South African sky, a man loses his son. In that moment, the killer they call Artemis is born. His victims are guilty: the child-murderers, the paedophiles, the ones for whom even a life lived out in jail is too good. But DI Benny Griessel knows this vigilante killer brings revenge, not justice. Artemis must be stopped, before he makes a terrible mistake & another innocent life is lost... ...

Walking is one of Britain's favourite leisure activities, & this guide features a variety of mapped walks to suit various abilities. It describes various walks with a summary of distance, time, dog friendliness, parking & public toilets. It is accompanied by reading on the history & wildlife of Devon. ...

Step back in time with this stunningly nostalgic black & white wall calendar.

The photography in this calendar gives you

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Devon has much to offer from the rolling hills & moors, cobbled villages & quaint towns.

This A4 calendar for 2019 explores

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Covers the south west & Devon & Cornwall in particular. This guide

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The county of Devon is said to have been the most militarily active county in England during the course of the Second World War. Devon At War can claim to be one of the few books that fully covers events on the Home Front during the war years, setting them against the ebb & flow of the conflict between the Allied & Axis forces. From Plymouth sailed Royal Navy warships that were to take part in epic sea battles. On Devons beaches were trained the men of the Allied armies who took part in the D-Day invasion of 6 June 1944, including tens of thousands of American troops who sailed from Devons ports. Away from the front line, ordinary citizens found their lives turned upside down, food rationing & war work, & the sudden influx of thousands of evacuees brought a new urgency to quiet rural backwaters, while Hitlers sustained bombing campaigns saw death raining down from the skies, inflicting massive destruction on Plymouth & Exeter. Using contemporary reports & formerly secret documents combined with eye-witness accounts & over 200 photographs the author tells the remarkable story of those turbulent years. ...

The devastating effects of the First World War were to change forever the face of rural Engl&. Devon in the Great World War is the first substantial work to explore both the military & social aspects of the greatest & bloodiest of World Wars, charting the changes that this conflict brought upon Devon & it's people. ...

Devon Sketchbook will guide you to some 40 favourite places along the north & south coasts of the county, plus a few in Exmoor & Dartmoor National Parks. With more than 180 of the author's line & watercolour illustrations & 66 hand drawn maps, Devon Sketchbook is a unique guidebook & souvenir. It also makes the perfect gift. ...

Devon's first railway was opened as long ago as 16 September 1820. This was the Haytor Tramway constructed by George Templar. Sections of the tramway are still extant & scheduled as an Ancient Monument. The later railway map of Devon appears complicated, but is easier to comprehend when the history of the lines is understood. Basically two competing main lines thrust westwards to Plymouth
- the Great Western Railway (GWR) & the London & South Western Railway (LSWR). As far as Exeter the GWR ran to the north of the LSWR, but west of that city the positions were reversed. South-east Devon, generally known as ` East Devon', was LSWR territory, South-west Devon, known as ` South Devon' was mostly GWR territory, while most of North Devon came under the LSWR's sphere. After reorganisation, the LSWR lines fell to the Southern Railway. Partly due to its topography, Devon had an unusually large number of branch lines. Although many were closed either immediately following, or before the 1963 Beeching Report on Railways, some have reopened as preserved lines: Totnes to Buckfast; Paignton to Kingswear & the Plym Valley Railway. Much of the Seaton branch was relaid as a 2ft 9in gauge electric tramway. Some stations too have been reopened: Sidmouth Junction has opened as Feniton; Ivybridge, closed to passengers 2 March 1959, reopened 15 July 1994 as a park & ride station to reduce traffic to & from Plymouth, while Tiverton Junction moved to Tiverton Parkway to give enhanced road access. Colin Maggs, the renowned expert on railway history, tells the fascinating tale of the railways & the impact they had on the lives of everyone in the county. The nostalgic branch lines with their small local trains & the main lines with their thundering expresses, are all part of a rich heritage which is explored in an expert text & in more than two hundred evocative images to present an absorbing view of Devon's recent past.
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