the West Country

Nasty, brutish and short

20 August 2022 9:00 am

As Tory writers reflected on the safe passage of the Stuart dynasty through the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-81, an anonymous…

Morning mist in the valleys of northeast Dartmoor, seen from the summit of Brent Tor

Bogs and fogs

13 June 2015 9:00 am

In his poem ‘Eden Rock’, Charles Causley conjures up a dreamy memory of a childhood picnic ‘somewhere beyond Eden Rock’.…