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Plymouth
A history of Devon from the Roman occupation through the Anglo-Saxon period, the Norman Conquest and the Tudor and Stuart eras, with sketches of the county's leading figures including Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and Samuel Taylor...
A layered Iron Age hillfort with multiple defensive banks, overlaid by a Norman motte and bailey at Burley Wood.
Meavy, Yelverton
Meavy's parish council, delivered jointly with Sheepstor, Dousland and Walkhampton through Burrator Parish Council.
Christow, Exeter
The parish council for Christow, a Teign Valley village on the southern edge of Dartmoor.
Okehampton
The town council for Okehampton, a market town on Dartmoor's northern edge, below the ruined castle.
Mill Leat, Buckfastleigh
A Norman earthwork rising from open moorland, where ancient ramparts still command the high ground after nearly a thousand years.
Okehampton
Norman castle ruins commanding the West Okement Valley, where crumbling stone walls tell of medieval power on the moor's edge.
Lydford, Tavistock
A Norman stronghold reduced to atmospheric ruins on the edge of Dartmoor, where castle and landscape have merged over nine centuries.
Mill Leat, Buckfastleigh
A Norman motte-and-bailey castle crowning a steep hilltop on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, with commanding views across Devon.
