IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Lewdown, OKEHAMPTON, EX20 4BY

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to EX20 4BY by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Image Listing (10 Images Found)

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Distance
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Old Milestone in Stowford Parish, West Devon
Carved stone post by the UC road (was A30), in parish of STOWFORD (WEST DEVON District), Royal Exchange B&B car park, 50m West of minor road to Stowford, on grass verge by small wall, close to telegraph pole, on North side of road. Launceston gable, erected by the Launceston turnpike trust in the 18th century. Inscription reads:- LAUNCESTON 7 OKEHAMPTON 11½ Carved benchmark on lower front face. Devon & Dartmoor HER listed. HER Number: MDV39608 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV39608&resourceID=104 Milestone Society National ID: DV_LAOK07
Image: © Alan Rosevear Taken: 27 Feb 2012
0.18 miles
2
Part Barton Stowford
A house dating from 1853. Grade II Listed http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1105499&searchtype=mapsearch
Image: © Rod Allday Taken: 26 Oct 2011
0.19 miles
3
Stowford Village Hall
Image: © Rod Allday Taken: 26 Oct 2011
0.20 miles
4
Stowford
A gloomy day that doesn't do justice to this pretty corner of the hamlet, with thatched cottages and the church tower (actually in Image) above the roofs.
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 17 Mar 2007
0.23 miles
5
Inscribed stone in Stowford churchyard
Another view of Image
Image: © Rod Allday Taken: 5 Nov 2011
0.23 miles
6
Inscribed stone in Stowford churchyard
Believed to date from the 6th or 7th century and situated by the entrance to the churchyard, this standing stone has an inscription running vertically in Insular Majuscule lettering, variously interpreted as "GURGLES", "GUNGLEI", "GOMGEL" or "GUNGLEL.
Image: © Rod Allday Taken: 5 Nov 2011
0.24 miles
7
Detail of carved knife showing IXL feature
A curious detail, only just visible in the photo, was added to the knife blade - the letters IXL which Hems adopted for his own self-promotion (inditing his proud boast... namely:- "I excel"). The letters, with an asterisk as in I*XL, were initially a corporate mark formally registered to his mother's Wostenholm family who ran a large and very successful Sheffield firm of cutlers. Image www.eggintongroup.co.uk/history/the-history-of-george-wostenholm.html Harry Hems as a young boy had been unsuccessfully apprenticed to his grandparent's firm of cutlers but abandoned it to take up an apprenticeship with a Sheffield woodcarver.
Image: © Colin Vosper Taken: 5 Mar 2013
0.24 miles
8
St John's church, Stowford - monument to John Harris (detail 2)
John Harris (†1767).
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 24 Jun 2013
0.25 miles
9
St John's church, Stowford - bench end
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 24 Jun 2013
0.25 miles
10
St John's church, Stowford (interior)
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 24 Jun 2013
0.25 miles