Category: Haldon Hills
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Finding Chapel La Wallen, Dartmoor
In May 2023 I published my photozine Lidwell Chapel – Images from Two Seasons. It took a long time to put this together and I’m rather proud of it. (You can still buy it from Etsy here.) Soon after launching this into an inexplicably underwhelmed market I found myself re-reading it and reminding myself that…
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Lidwell Chapel in winter
My first Lidwell Chapel blog post was from the summer of 2018, and you can still view it here. I remember writing that I hoped to return and photograph it in a different season, ideally with lots of mist. That post is one of the most visited on my website, so I’ve delayed this subsequent…
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Haldon Pet Cemetery: a re-visit 9th February 2022
A couple of weeks ago I realised someone had sent me a query on Messenger that I hadn’t noticed – because I don’t really use it, and have notifications turned off. It asked if I’d been recently to the site of the pet cemetery at the Haldon Hills, and if so whether it was still…
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Two Green Lanes near the Haldon Hills (Part 2)
In the month since I published the first half of this blog piece we have lived for a while in a holiday flat in Teignmouth, completed our house purchase a week earlier than expected, spent several days and many car trips moving things we’d stored in the flat to our new home, taken delivery of…
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Two Green Lanes near the Haldon Hills (Part 1)
In April 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I posted a black and white photograph of Holloway Lane (South Devon) on Twitter that I’d taken in autumn 2019, and it proved a popular one. I hadn’t had the time to really explore the lane or the area, and had been looking forward…
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Castle Dyke, early Autumn 2017
I’ve been photographing Castle Dyke, near Ashcombe, Devon, for a couple of years. It is a ‘slight univallate hill fort’ believed to date to the iron age. I have now lost count of how many visits I have made, no doubt because my house lies barely a mile away from it, but also because it…
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