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Lower Kingsdown Road, TEIGNMOUTH, TQ14 9AP

Kingsway perches on the steep eastern slope of the Broadmeadow valley. Blocks of flats, right, look out over open countryside.

A sculpture in the garden of 'Lyonesse', No 1, Higher Kingsdown Road, Teignmouth. It is steadied by multiple guy wires, washing lines and so forth. The inscription on the tablet reads: "Your honesty and self-respect contribute to safe and happy environments". Whether this is addressed to the world at large or to a specific neighbour, who can say? As seen from Mill Lane; for another view, including the mermaid on the roof, see Image Difficult to photograph. I was a good hour late to get a more oblique light but there was just too much other stuff to photograph on the way!

Perched smiling on the chimney of 'Lyonesse', 1 Higher Kingsdown Road, Teignmouth. Her companion is at Image and both at Image An improvement on gnomes.

This area has seen a lot of change since the 1950s when the OS map showed a very uniform layout of short terraces as in Image The first turning on the right is Lower Kingsdown Road.

As Kingsway climbs steeply, views open. On the left there is a glimpse of the Teign estuary and, left of centre, Newfoundland Road, the access to the recently-built Morrisons supermarket and sports pitches at Broadmeadow; the yellow vehicle is an AA van. At upper right is the house called The Lea and at centre is the realigned lane of the same name; its lower end is in Image Some of the early council houses off Kingsway, not yet replaced, are seen in Image

Once again, the Ness upstages the town. This is one of several roads in the area with streetnames and services, seemingly, but which raise a doubt as to whether they are adopted public highways. These two lads were delivering flyers. They were interested to hear about Geograph but disbelieving of my liking for the foreground here as well as the distance – the scruffy road, the wires, the assorted boundary treatments, the ad hoc nature of it all. I met them again hours later rounding the corner of Alexandra Terrace in Image We had all walked a long way.

A group of lock-up garages sits beside a conventional brick council house, left.

The view from beside Beacon Park Plantation over Teignmouth in the late afternoon sun. The flats are along Broadmeadow View and Kingsway. Beyond them is part of Teignmouth on the spit across the mouth of the River Teign, with The Ness on the right.