Ella's Adventures Blog
The chain that stopped ships in their tracks
Dartmouth Castle was built from the 1380s by John Hawley, a successful merchant and notorious privateer widely believed to have inspired Chaucer's burly Shipman in The Canterbury Tales, a character...
The chain that stopped ships in their tracks
Dartmouth Castle was built from the 1380s by John Hawley, a successful merchant and notorious privateer widely believed to have inspired Chaucer's burly Shipman in The Canterbury Tales, a character...
The castle that was never once attacked
Here's the Totnes Castle fact that made me want to paint it. It's one of the best preserved Norman motte-and-bailey castles anywhere in Britain, and the largest of its kind...
The castle that was never once attacked
Here's the Totnes Castle fact that made me want to paint it. It's one of the best preserved Norman motte-and-bailey castles anywhere in Britain, and the largest of its kind...
The town with its own currency
Here's the Totnes fact that sums the place up nicely. It's one of England's oldest chartered towns, and for years it issued its own local currency, the Totnes Pound, designed...
The town with its own currency
Here's the Totnes fact that sums the place up nicely. It's one of England's oldest chartered towns, and for years it issued its own local currency, the Totnes Pound, designed...
The garden bought by a machine that (probably) ...
Here's the Overbeck's story that makes me laugh every time I think about it. This subtropical clifftop garden above Salcombe exists because of Otto Overbeck, an inventor whose most commercially...
The garden bought by a machine that (probably) ...
Here's the Overbeck's story that makes me laugh every time I think about it. This subtropical clifftop garden above Salcombe exists because of Otto Overbeck, an inventor whose most commercially...
The harbour with no river to feed it
Here's the Salcombe fact that catches people out. The water the town sits beside looks like an estuary, but no real river feeds it. It is a ria, a valley...
The harbour with no river to feed it
Here's the Salcombe fact that catches people out. The water the town sits beside looks like an estuary, but no real river feeds it. It is a ria, a valley...
The harbour that made the whole village possible
Here's the Clovelly fact that most visitors miss while they're busy on the famous cobbled street. The whole village only exists because of its harbour. Along a stretch of North...
The harbour that made the whole village possible
Here's the Clovelly fact that most visitors miss while they're busy on the famous cobbled street. The whole village only exists because of its harbour. Along a stretch of North...