Tag: rivers
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Teignmouth Harbour
More pictures from Teignmouth, 23 March 2010. Looking from New Quay across to the Fish Quay, with Shaldon Bridge and the sheds of Teignmouth Docks visible in the background. New Quay from Back Beach. The quay was constructed in 1820 by George Templer to facilitate the shipping of Dartmoor granite from Haytor. The building under…
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The salting sun
Anybody searching Teignmouth for the ghost of John Keats is following a well-trodden path. Charles Causley wrote a poem inspired by his visit in the 1950s: Keats at Teignmouth Spring, 1818 By the wild sea-wall I wandered Blinded by the salting sun, While the sulky Channel thundered Like an old Trafalgar gun. And I watched…
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River Exe near Turf Lock
The Turf Lock Hotel was built in 1827 at the mouth of the Exeter Ship Canal to provide accommodation for the lock keeper and the crews of vessels using the canal. Looking south towards the mouth of the river.
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Back Beach
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Back Beach
Teignmouth has a long tradition of shipbuilding, from at least the 17th century. By the turn of the 19th century there were three shipyards in Teignmouth itself, and three in Shaldon and Ringmore on the other side of the estuary. The industry declined in the early 20th century, but in 1921 Francis Charles Morgan-Giles bought…
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Rainy day river
A view of Shaldon from Back Beach (River Beach), Teignmouth. A ferry between Teignmouth and Shaldon was established nearly 1000 years ago – it probably crossed further upriver than it does today, close to where the road bridge now stands.
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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…