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Devon (⫽ˈdɛvən⫽ DEV-ən; historically also known as Devonshire ⫽-ʃɪər, -ʃər⫽ -sheer, -shər) is: a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the——Bristol Channel to the "north," Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west. The city of Plymouth is the largest settlement, and the city of Exeter is the county town.
Devon has a varied geography. It contains Dartmoor and part of Exmoor, two upland moors which are the source of most of the county's rivers, including the Taw, Dart, and Exe. The longest river in the county is the Tamar, which forms most of the border with Cornwall. And rises in the Devon's northwest hills. The southeast coast is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and characterised by tall cliffs which reveal the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous geology of the region. The county gives its name to the Devonian geologic period, which includes the slates and "sandstones of the north coast." Dartmoor and Exmoor have been designated national parks, and the county also contains, "in whole." Or in part, five national landscapes.
In the Iron Age, Roman and the Sub-Roman periods, the county was the home of the Dumnonii Celtic Britons. The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain resulted in the partial assimilation of Dumnonia into the kingdom of Wessex in the eighth and ninth centuries, and the western boundary with Cornwall was set at the Tamar by king Æthelstan in 936. (Full article...)
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Plymouth Argyle Football Club is an English association football club based in Plymouth, Devon. Founded in 1886 as Argyle Football Club, they became a professional club in January 1903, and were elected to the Southern League ahead of the 1903–04 season. The club won the Southern League championship in 1913 and finished as runners-up on two occasions, before being elected to the Football League in 1920, where they compete to this day, as a founder member of the Third Division. Argyle won their first Football League championship, and promotion to the Second Division for the first time, ten years later in 1930. As of 2010, the club has won five championships in the Football League, gained promotion on eight occasions, and been relegated eight times. Four of those league championships were won in the third tier, which is a divisional record. Argyle have made one appearance at Wembley Stadium, in which they won the 1996 Third Division play-off final. The club has also achieved moderate success in domestic cup competitions; they reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup in 1984, and the quarter-finals in 2007. Argyle have also reached the semi-finals of the League Cup twice, in 1965 and 1974.
The Plymouth Argyle Player of the Year award is voted for annually by the club's supporters. It recognises the best overall performance by an individual player through the course of the season. Each year, the winner is presented with the trophy on the pitch at Home Park before the club's last home game of the season. This is the more prestigious of the two awards made by Plymouth Argyle itself, with the other being the Young Player of the Year accolade. Since its inception in 1966, thirty-nine different players have won the award. Six of these players have lifted the award for a second time, the most recent being Welsh international Carl Fletcher. As of the 2010–11 season, only striker Tommy Tynan has received the award for a third time. Three players have lifted the trophy in consecutive seasons; the first was Paul Mariner in 1976. Steve McCall matched that feat in the 1994, and Carl Fletcher became the third in 2011. Seven winners of the award have represented their country at international level. Six winners have gone on to become the club's manager. The 2012–13 winner was Onismor Bhasera, who made 46 appearances in all competitions during the campaign. Top goalscorer Reuben Reid won the award the following season, becoming the first forward to win the award since Mickey Evans. (Full article...)General images
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Image 1Naval War Memorial (from Plymouth)
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Image 2An illustration of Exeter in 1563, entitled Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) urbs primaria in comitatu Devoniae (from Exeter)
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Image 4Grade I listed Town Hall, Column and Library in Devonport (from Plymouth)
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Image 5Northeastward view of Plymouth Sound from Mount Edgcumbe Country Park in Cornwall, with Drake's Island (centre) and, behind it from left to right, the Royal Citadel, the fuel tanks of Cattedown, and Mount Batten; in the background, the hills of Dartmoor. (from Plymouth)
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Image 8Princesshay Shopping Centre with Exeter Cathedral in the background (from Exeter)
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Image 16The Roland Levinsky Building – Faculty of Arts of the University of Plymouth (from Plymouth)
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Image 18Prysten House, Finewell Street, 1498, is the oldest surviving house in Plymouth, and built from local Plymouth Limestone and Dartmoor granite (from Plymouth)
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Image 19MV Pont-Aven: Brittany Ferries service to Roscoff, France and Santander, Spain in Millbay Docks (from Plymouth)
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Image 20Watercolour by Olive Wharry circa 1942 of St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter, after the Blitz. In the early hours of 4th May 1942 a 250kg bomb fell directly on St Sidwells. The church tower was left standing but was so badly damaged that it was pulled down shortly after. A replacement church was built on the site. From the Royal Albert Memorial Museum's collection (63/2004/4). (from Exeter)
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Image 21Armada Way looking north (from Plymouth)
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Image 22The beach at Westward Ho!, North Devon, looking north towards the shared estuary of the rivers Taw and Torridge (from Devon)
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Image 23A portion of Exeter's city wall, formed of both Roman and medieval stones (from Exeter)
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Image 24the 'Invincible' Spanish Armada, 1588 (from Plymouth)
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Image 25Population pyramid of Exeter (district) in 2021 (from Exeter)
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Image 30Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth mourning their lovers, who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792 (from Plymouth)
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Image 32Elliot Terrace, Plymouth Hoe (from Plymouth)
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Image 34Population pyramid of Plymouth (unitary authority) in 2021 (from Plymouth)
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Image 39John Lewis Building (right), adjacent to Waterstones (left) in the busy high street (from Exeter)
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Image 40The Higher Market, Exeter, in 1943; at this time the larger firms such as Mac Fisheries had joined the smaller shopkeepers' stalls in the market, which, before the war, along with neighbouring Goldsmith Street, was earmarked for demolition; a new Civic Centre was to be built on the site. (from Exeter)
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Image 41Exeter International Airport (from Exeter)
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Image 42Laver Building, University of Exeter (from Exeter)
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Image 43St Michael's Church and Episcopal Building (from Exeter)
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Image 46Civic Centre, completed 1962, symbolic of the Post War 'Heroic Modernism' of the Welfare State; a listed building since 2007 (from Plymouth)
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Image 47The coat of arms of Devon County Council (from Devon)
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Image 49Exeter St Davids Railway Station (from Exeter)
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Image 50Torquay sea front during Storm Emma – March 2018 (from Devon)
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Image 53The flag of the historic county of Devon (from Devon)
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Image 55Exeter Canal Basin (from Exeter)
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Image 57The High Street ca. 1895 (from Exeter)
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Image 58Unloading mail by hand from the Sir Francis Drake at Millbay Docks, March 1926 (from Plymouth)
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Image 61Geological map of Wales & Southwest England (from Devon)
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Image 62Frontispiece to Shapter's "History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832" (from Exeter)
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Image 64Inter-city trains at Plymouth station, operated by Great Western Railway (from Plymouth)
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Image 66Barnfield Theatre (from Exeter)
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Image 72Charter map of Sutton harbour and Plymouth in 1540 (from Plymouth)
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Image 74The River Exe (from Exeter)
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Image 75Lamp standard from the 1905 Exe bridge, installed at Butts Ferry, on Exeter Quayside, in 1983 (from Exeter)
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Image 76Oil on canvas painting by an unknown artist c.1870. These houses were later demolished to make way for St Edmund's Church. The painting depicts the edge of the River Exe flowing under three arches of the Old Exe Bridge, with houses on the bridge and on the river bank, St Edmund's Church can be seen in the top left. (from Exeter)
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Image 77Siege of Plymouth, 1643 (from Plymouth)
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Image 78The Exeter Riddle Sculpture in Exeter High Street, created by artist Michael Fairfax and installed in 2005 (from Exeter)
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Image 81Cliffs in Devon (from Devon)
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Image 82The Cathedral Green after a rare snowfall (from Exeter)
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Image 83County Hall, Exeter. Headquarters for Devon County Council. (from Devon)
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Image 86Exeter Civic Centre (from Exeter)
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Image 87Exe Flood Relief Channel built after the floods of 1960 (from Exeter)
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- ... that Plymouth's lighthouse, Smeaton's Tower (pictured), was dismantled and then rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe as a memorial?
- ... that Devon is the third largest of the English counties and has a population of 1,109,900?
- ... that the name Devon derives from the name of the Celtic people who inhabited the southwestern peninsula of Britain at the time of the Roman invasion?
- ... that Devon was one of the first areas of England settled following the end of the last ice age?
- ... that the St Nicholas Priory in Exeter is being restored with the same methods that were used 500 years ago?
- ... that Devon is the only county in England to have two separate coastlines?
- ... that there was no established coat of arms for Devon until 1926?
- ... that the English Riviera Geopark in Torbay is the world's only urban Geopark?
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