The delightful river Dart, loved by all who know it, is one of Devon’s jewels. Small, homely and intimate, it meanders from its source on Dartmoor through the South Devon countryside to the sea at Dartmouth. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Dartmouth in The Mayflower bound for a New World in America.
Above photo by Edwardsian – wikipedia.
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The traditional life of our old Sussex village, full of character and history, is under threat from yet more inappropriate, expensive housing development. As locals we have had enough and are taking action to save our village. Read the great news of the success of our campaign so far. But there could be a problem – see Latest Update blow.
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Continue reading “Exploring Our Sussex Downland Villages”“The heart can be happy on these great downs, so much are they a part of England, with their close sheep bitten paths and always the wind blowing the grasses.”
Richard Jefferies
Ronald Blythe was a creative writer with a simple life-style, born and bred in Suffolk, the voice of a vanishing past in these shires of old England. I pay my own tribute to this chronicler of a slower, more gentle way of life who died this year aged 100.
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A Listening Heart 