Post by Dave on Aug 13, 2012 16:46:31 GMT
I’m sure we all do it; you know drive around in our cars and see signs for places we have never been to before. I recon I could spend the rest of my life just visiting towns and villages in Devon alone, I have never been to before.
As I drive around the Southwest of England every working day for my living, I have been able to drive through many places most people would not. Sometimes it happens as I have to find another route due to a road traffic accident for example. I do love when this happens as I get to see a whole new community and there is nine times out of ten, some interesting building to be seen.
Mind you there are some names of places I find hard to pronounce and I so often wonder how the place was named in the first place. Now you take a village like Frithelstock Stone in North Devon, If asked I would have said it was named because it has a stone there of some sort, but I have looked around and can’t find one.
I do know that in 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales stated that a small Augnstinian priory was founded there, in the time of Henry III., by Sir Roger Beauchamp; and was given, along with the manor, by Henry VIII., to Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle; and the ruins of it still exist. Do they still? This I intend to find out and do wonder if the name of the village has more to do with that priory that any stone.
Anyway back to the where is it part of this post? I have driven past a sign for the last ten years every Monday and Thursday morning around 7.15am. that had the name of a beach and café on it. This morning I decided to come off the road I was on and drive the short distance to this beach.
For such a small beach it has a fair size car park and large café. I took these few pictures of it this morning and all you need to do is name the beach.
Good luck
Dave
As I drive around the Southwest of England every working day for my living, I have been able to drive through many places most people would not. Sometimes it happens as I have to find another route due to a road traffic accident for example. I do love when this happens as I get to see a whole new community and there is nine times out of ten, some interesting building to be seen.
Mind you there are some names of places I find hard to pronounce and I so often wonder how the place was named in the first place. Now you take a village like Frithelstock Stone in North Devon, If asked I would have said it was named because it has a stone there of some sort, but I have looked around and can’t find one.
I do know that in 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales stated that a small Augnstinian priory was founded there, in the time of Henry III., by Sir Roger Beauchamp; and was given, along with the manor, by Henry VIII., to Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle; and the ruins of it still exist. Do they still? This I intend to find out and do wonder if the name of the village has more to do with that priory that any stone.
Anyway back to the where is it part of this post? I have driven past a sign for the last ten years every Monday and Thursday morning around 7.15am. that had the name of a beach and café on it. This morning I decided to come off the road I was on and drive the short distance to this beach.
For such a small beach it has a fair size car park and large café. I took these few pictures of it this morning and all you need to do is name the beach.
Good luck
Dave
