Category: Rural Devon
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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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A Very Local Spring – Part 3
It’s a grey but warm summer’s day early in July, as I write this, and I’m just back from a local walk from home up into the Haldon Hills by way of another green lane. It’s new to me (how much I’m enjoying discovering all these old routes!): steep, narrow, dark, sunken and contains some…
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A Very Local Spring
Part 1 The longest day is now behind us, and I remember wanting to write a post or two about my favourite season last spring, but never really took the time to pull images and text together. We had moved in November 2020 to Chudleigh, south Devon, from Teignmouth, and in the spring of 2021…
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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…
Terry Hurt Photography 