Dartmoor National Park Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube About 1,000 years ago, medieval England began to prosper. The climate improved, making the growing season longer, with bumper harvests, and the population expanded. Competition for land forced people to start farming on the fringes of the higher moor, like their Bronze Age ancestors. They laid out new fields, sometimes basedContinue reading “Medieval Dartmoor”
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The Whitehorse Hill Finds
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter From Neolithic ceremonial sites such as stone circles and stone rows to the large number of Bronze Age hut circles, field systems and burial sites dotted throughout the landscape – there are few other places where theContinue reading “The Whitehorse Hill Finds”
Bronze Age Dartmoor
Dartmoor National Park Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube We know that people were visiting Dartmoor to hunt over 10,000 years ago, but it wasn’t until about 4,500 years ago that people began to settle in large numbers to farm the land. These first farmers settled in upland Dartmoor because it would have been more open than the heavilyContinue reading “Bronze Age Dartmoor”
Charles Cross and St Luke’s
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter Charles Cross One of the last Gothic churches to be built before the style disappeared, Charles Cross Church is now a well-known landmark, standing in the centre of the Charles Cross roundabout as a monument to theContinue reading “Charles Cross and St Luke’s”
The History of Ford Park Cemetery
Friends of Ford Park Cemetery Email 01752 665442 Facebook The birth of the cemetery was a troubled one. A group of leading citizens had met as early as August 1842 for the purpose of forming a cemetery company for the towns of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse. They were deeply concerned at the scandalous state ofContinue reading “The History of Ford Park Cemetery”
The East Chancel Window at Stoke Damerel Parish Church
(Dedicated to Elizabeth Jane Cawthra) Stoke Damerel Parish Church Stoke Damerel Church isn’t dedicated to any particular saint although the three who are regularly associated with it are St. Mary, St. Andrew and St. Luke. Representations of the first two of these can be seen in the East Window, which is located above the highContinue reading “The East Chancel Window at Stoke Damerel Parish Church”
Adverts in Stoke Damerel Parish Magazine
Stoke Damerel Parish Church Our second article by Tony Barnard of Stoke Damerel Parish Church. The church at Stoke Damerel issued its first monthly magazine in January 1878. In modern times each magazine carries between eight and a dozen advertisements for local businesses, services, or charities, no paid-for advertisements appeared in that publication, or anyContinue reading “Adverts in Stoke Damerel Parish Magazine”
St Werburgh’s Church at Wembury
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitte St Werburgh’s Church in Wembury must have one of the most picturesque locations in the UK. Positioned on the cliff top above Wembury Beach, it’s surrounded by land belonging to the National Trust with views over the YealmContinue reading “St Werburgh’s Church at Wembury”
The Minster Church of St Andrew
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter The story of St. Andrew’s dates back to the 700s when ‘a party of Christian colonisers sailed into Sutton Harbour, set their farm a short distance upstream and built their church on a ridge to the westContinue reading “The Minster Church of St Andrew”
Historic Houses
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter There are some wonderful historic houses in the Plymouth area where time often seems to have stood still. They’re all very different but all provide a glimpse into the history of the South West and its landowningContinue reading “Historic Houses”
Plymouth History Festival 