My first real outing into the countryside with my camera: exciting!
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Here’s the route we took . . .
Yeah, we took a little wrong turn, ergo the dogleg at the top. I think the footpath sign was either missing or covered over by the hedgerow.
The walk out of Bickleigh was fairly easy alongside the River Dart . . .
It’s starts as a lovely gentle uphill, which belies what comes later on as we head up the hill to Cadeleigh . . .
This is my favourite photo of the day . . .
Not sure who likes to shower outside here, but each to their own . . .
Strange place to grow . . .
Just ignore it, we did, LOL . . .
What a lovely place to live . . .
Such a beautiful farm yard . . .
I think this is West Barton Farm . . .
But i do wonder how many farms have tennis courts . . .
Just a lovely Devon Valley . . .
Awwww, when he spotted a vegan he came over to say hello . . .
As we headed up higher the views get better . . .
A lovely Devon cottage in Cadeleigh . . .
I asked one of the Cadeleigh locals what the sign meant, and he had no idea there was any kind of sign coming into the village.
The Cadeleigh Arms has seen some much, much better days, in desperate need of some tlc . . .
And now we get to St. Bartholomew’s Church, where we sat and had lunch in the grave yard. You can read all about it’s history and architecture over at Historic England
The nice thing about these out-of-the-way village churches is that they tend to not lock them up and you can have a peek inside. And they’ve got a nice looking, little pipe organ . . .
Memorial to Sir Simon Leach . . .
The bell tower . . .
The statue is St Anthony with his pig . . .
The bell tower’s door with beerstone arch . . .
The ivy in the graveyard has taken over a little bit . . .
Our two doggy friends were having a great day out enjoying the last of the summer sunshine . . .
Edward vii . . .
A buzzard out hunting, or maybe just enjoying some fun in the thermals . . .
On the way back to Bickleigh there was this lovely old Foden truck . . .
I thought this was some fair ground fortune tellers trailer so Rima can shift her tent and trinkets around, but, alas, i was wrong.
Rima Staines is an artist . . .
Gerroff my land!!! Nice to see people still have scarecrows . . .
No expense spared on the signage . . .
And this pretty little plant is a Cyclamen hederifolium
And we finally end up back where we started at Bickleigh Bridge. It was rebuilt in 1809, so well over 200 years old . . .
And that is all we have time for this week. Hope you enjoyed this little taste of beautiful Devon.
See soon.