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...Having heard that the rest of Cornwall was similarly dominated by “deserts of dreariness”, he made an abrupt about-turn and headed back for the more gently pastoral landscapes of south Devon....
...Goodwin says the family originally wanted to be further west, nearer Devon, where she was brought up....
...I’ve quite a well-developed Sir Walter Raleigh side....
...The same can’t be said for another dystopian feminist fable, Body of Stars (Hodder Studio, £14.99) by Laura Maylene Walter, which favours atmosphere over pace and scene-setting over incident....
...In Devon, Charles Brannam began making art ware in 1879 at his father’s pottery....
...It is a place that has drawn architect Walter Gropius, cellist Jacqueline du Pré, philosopher Bertrand Russell and poet Rabindranath Tagore....
.... £11, muji.eu An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field in New Mexico, a piece of land art....
...The Street of Wonderful Possibilities is beautifully illustrated with paintings by Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and others from their Tite Street circle, and covers the idol worship, arrogance...
...For example, Cornwall and Devon have distinct genetic identities corresponding to the two counties, separated by the Tamar river....
...But Devon is 200 miles from London....
...In 2002, he allowed it to be shown at a National Trust country house in Devon, where its narcotic decorations — painted opium poppies, scarlet hares — were on view for all to see....
...Ivy and lichen grow over the Victorian gravestones, including the graves of Walter Pater and JW Burgon, poet of ‘Petra’ – ‘a rose red city half as old as time’....
...Its comedy is deliciously sardonic, a fine match for the central trio of actors Julie Walters, Helen McCrory and especially Rory Kinnear....
...An enthusiastic skier, Caines had heard about Scott’s operation from Chris Jenks, once one of his talented underlings at Gidleigh Park in Devon....
...Our winner was put up by Louise Stewart, who swears by the Birmingham butcher, Walter Smith....
...This deposit, at Hemerdon in Devon, was mined during the two world wars. Now Wolf Minerals, an Australian company, is preparing to re-open the mine. …………………………………………………………….....
...Mauchline Ware spice tower In the mid-19th century, snuffbox makers W&A Smith of Mauchline capitalised on a surge in tourism to Scotland – fuelled by Robert Burns’s poetry, Sir Walter Scott’s romantic novels...
...A single-track road then takes you down to Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s riverside mansion, and the way continues along the banks of the Tweed into Melrose....
...Walter Chrysler found a way out of the 1930s slump by devising the Plymouth, a low-cost but high-technology car that promised a “floating ride”....
...If you are after douce towns in southern England, go for Sidmouth in Devon or Rye in East Sussex rather than fashionable Southwold in Suffolk. Cities....
...Walter Bagehot, economist and journalist, born in Langport, Somerset. Laid down the doctrine for handling banking crises. 4. Sir Francis Drake, admiral and privateer, born in Tavistock, Devon....
...Other old names, in contrast, remain stubbornly out of favour, such as Deirdre, Ethel and Gertrude for girls and Norman, Percy and Walter for boys....
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