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Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 19-03-2009 19:04 Post subject: Fortean Devon |
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Going on residential training in Exeter.
Im going to put my spare time to good use.
anything in Devon? |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 20-03-2009 11:22 Post subject: |
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| H_James Ancient Cow (&)
Creepy thing Joined: 18 May 2002 Total posts: 5624 |
| Posted: 20-03-2009 14:24 Post subject: |
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| Anything in Devon? The air positively reeks of ghosts... I used to buy those 'haunted devon' type pamphlets when I used to go on holiday there, they frightened the living daylights out of me as a child. But there is an enormous amount of history, folklore and legend out there. Lots of black dogs and ladies walled up in castles with ever-crying babies and that kind of thing. |
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| ProfessorF Great Old One Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Total posts: 336 Location: Ulan Bator - inside my head looking out Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-03-2009 23:37 Post subject: |
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Take a trip to Cornwall to Roche Rock - one of my favourite places to visit.
Have to try and get back soon. |
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| bugmum Yeti Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Total posts: 87 Age: 42 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 24-03-2009 12:37 Post subject: |
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Welcome to the best end of the world!
I would suggest Berry Pomeroy...or sitting on Dartmoor at night with the car lights off...or, as has been mentioned, any tourist knick-knack shop will supply Haunted Devon books with plenty of ideas! |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
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| Blinko_Glick slightly warm
Great Old One Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Total posts: 312 Location: Sitting on the porch of insanity with a nice Pimms don't you know? Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 17:36 Post subject: |
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Dude you have to go to Wistman's Wood near Two Bridges on Dartmoor - very eerie.
Berry Pomeroy Castle is well worth a visit too - I once saw something that pretended to be a ghost cat on one of the dungeon stairwells, although ghosts don't really fit in with my world view.
But the place certainly has it's fair share of vibes.
Then there's Union Street in Plymouth on Friday & Saturday nights.
There's plenty of weird & wonderful things going on there mostly involving sailors & skimpy clad chavettes.
Oh Hello BTW, I'm Blinko Glick. |
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| stuneville Administrator
Joined: 09 Mar 2002 Total posts: 10230 Location: FTMB HQ Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 18:24 Post subject: |
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Hello and welcome, Blinko Glick.
I have relatives just outside Teignmouth, and a lane not far from them is reputed to be a black dog track - high hedges either side with a stunning view of the sea head on, but by night it's brown trousers material.
I also think Lydford Gorge feels somehow... oh god, I'll have to say enchanted (hate the word, but there's no other way of describing it.) Tangible nature, mischievous, busy but entirely benevolent. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 19:52 Post subject: |
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Ah, Teignmouth, a place I used to know well. (In fact, I have a note on my desk reminding me to unearth some B&W photos I took there about 50 years ago...)
And coincidentally it was the murder scene in a novel I recently read.
Not particularly Fortean, but I recommend the train ride from Exeter to Teignmouth (or even Totnes). Along the estuary, then the coast, etc... wonderful. |
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| stuneville Administrator
Joined: 09 Mar 2002 Total posts: 10230 Location: FTMB HQ Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 20:15 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | | Ah, Teignmouth, a place I used to know well. (In fact, I have a note on my desk reminding me to unearth some B&W photos I took there about 50 years ago...) |
Doubt it's changed much - but that's not a criticism. We go there a lot.
| rynner2 wrote: | | Not particularly Fortean, but I recommend the train ride from Exeter to Teignmouth (or even Totnes). Along the estuary, then the coast, etc... wonderful. |
..especially good late autumn or early spring, when you get through Dawlish Warren and past the Red Rock and basically the track goes along the beach. Great fun in high winds as waves lash the train (though they do tend to get wussy and close the track a bit more often these days apparently..) |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 20:32 Post subject: |
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| stuneville wrote: | | Great fun in high winds as waves lash the train (though they do tend to get wussy and close the track a bit more often these days apparently..) |
Despite the threat of sea level rise, they have put the idea of an alternative route on hold for the time being, so this old track will be in use for some yet.
Those interested in Brunel and his works should check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_railway#South_Devon_Railway
('Atmospheric' refers to air pressure, not the scenic ambience of the route!  ) |
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| Ffalstaf Great Old One Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Total posts: 161 Location: Blue Mountains, NSW Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 21:06 Post subject: |
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| stuneville wrote: | | ...when you get through Dawlish Warren and past the Red Rock and basically the track goes along the beach. Great fun in high winds as waves lash the train.... |
Ah! Thankyou. You've just explained a pic I saw a couple of days ago (click the thumbnail):
http://pixdaus.com/small3/1227175080PHkMB9f.jpeg
Caption: "Waves batter a Virgin train as it passes along the coastal railway line at Dawlish in Devon, south w" |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 21:18 Post subject: |
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| Ffalstaf wrote: | | Caption: "Waves batter a Virgin train as it passes along the coastal railway line at Dawlish in Devon..." |
Unusual view - must have been taken from a helicopter! |
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| Blinko_Glick slightly warm
Great Old One Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Total posts: 312 Location: Sitting on the porch of insanity with a nice Pimms don't you know? Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-04-2009 21:42 Post subject: |
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Fantastic pic - one can't help but think that old Brunel could have chosen a less moist position for his track though!
Thanks for the welcome Stu, you may remember me in a former life as Quicksilver (before the forum got all red taped & uneccessary).
You use the word 'enchanted' well.
In fact, for me Devon itself holds a particular kind of 'feel' that no other county does.
Second largest county IIRC and blessed with such a huge variety of scenery & geography, I wouldn't move away. Ever. Assuming Angelina Jolie never tires of being Mrs Pitt.
I frgot to mention the eeriest place I've ever experienced on the Moors though:
Crazy Well pool, not far from Burrator Reservoir is an odd water filled hole on the moor. The water level varies very little during the year, in fact they used to drain water from it to assist in the granite mining, with no discernable drop in water level occuring.
There are tales saying that it's bottomless.
There's a legend that says if you camp overnight you'll see a monster rising from the pool. You will invariably die the next day or soon after.
But one things for sure - with nothing but this odd body of water and the sound of skylarks overhead, this place evokes a sense of strangeness rare to find these days.
Definately worth a visit. |
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