Month: June 2008

  • Hoare Mausoleum

    This mausoleum belonging to the Hoare family of Luscombe Castle was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-78), architect of St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial. Situated in the south-west corner of the churchyard of St Gregory the Great, Dawlish, Devon, it is a large Gothic Revival mausoleum built in the form of a…

  • Aller Brook

    Ford at the bottom of Aller Hill, looking upstream towards Aller Farm. – – – – – The Aller Brook rises on the slopes of Little Haldon, near Dawlish, Devon. It is fed by two small catchment valleys at Smallacombe and another tributary at Lidwell, and runs eastwards for about two and a quarter miles…