Welcome to Devon CAM.

Below you will find our most recent additions. You can browse our entire photograph collection by place and category. All of our images of Devon are available in larger versions with most being suitable for use as desktop wallpapers. This site is updated often so please check back soon for more quality photos of Devon.

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Lifebuoy Ready for Action Place: Ansteys Cove Category: Beaches Size: - Large About: This scene looks very peaceful but the presence of a lifebuoy is testament to the stormy conditions that can occur along this stretch of the Devon Coastline Photograph Added: 4th March 2010

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At the Bottom of the Slope Place: Ansteys Cove Category: Beaches Size: - Large About: It is fairly steep to get to Ansteys Cove but most of the descent is on a well made path and it is not as slippery as some of the descents to other beaches in the area. The car park is fairly large and it is within walking distance of Kents Cavern. Photograph Added: 4th March 2010

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Greenway Glasshouse Place: Greenaway Category: Gardens Size: - Large About: Greenway house was the birthplace of Sir Humphrey Gilbert who was the explorer who claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth in 1583. Today the house seems to be remembered more as the home of the novelist Agatha Christie and after extensive renovatio...... Photograph Added: 4th March 2010

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View Across to Dittisham Place: Greenaway Category: Rivers and Waterways Size: - Large Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: From the small jetty at Greenway there are magnificent views across to Dittisham. Herons and kingfishers are often spotted dabbling and diving for fish near the quay.. Photograph Added: 4th March 2010

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Ferry Landing Place: Dittisham Category: Rivers and Waterways Size: - Large Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: Dittisham is thought to be named after 'Deedas' who was a Saxon chief that settled there soon after the Saxon invasion of Devon, in about 660 A.D. The village is in an idyllic setting right by the river and this is reflected in the price of housing i...... Photograph Added: 4th March 2010

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Low Water and Pontoon Place: Dittisham Category: Transportation Size: - Large Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: The village of Dittisham is located on high ground over looking the broadest part of the River Dart. Narrow picturesque lanes run down to a beach of mud and shingle where a ferry for foot passengers takes people to the quay below Greenway House Photograph Added: 4th March 2010

About Devon.

Devon is the third largest county in England with nearly 7, 000 sq. kilometres of land. There is a wide diversity of things to see and do in this beautiful county. Devon boasts the two national Parks of Dartmoor and Exmoor both are excellent for bird watching, cycling, climbing, casual waking or more serious rambling to sightseeing.. Footpaths are marked to give a variety of walking options including the 'Two Moor way' a 100 mile route that links the National Parks. Dartmoor to the south is rich in natural and man made beauty, heather clad hills, granite tors, fast flowing rivers and ancient clapper bridges. Exmoor to the north is justifiably famous for its heather moorlands and beautiful rugged coastline.

Devon has hundreds of beaches ranging from coves and inlets to fishing harbours and all action seaside resorts like the English Riviera of Torquay, The Jurassic coast of East Devon and Dorset has now joined the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef and been granted World Heritage Site status.

Devon has many famous 'sons'. Sir Walter Raleigh was born near Yettington in 1552 and the Raleigh family pew can still be seen in Yettington parish church. Sir John Everett Millais picture 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' was painted on Budleigh Salterton's beach.

Henry Williamson the novelist returned to Devon after the First World War and resucued an orphaned otter cub that he named Tarka. This relationship was the basis for his famous novel 'Tarka the Otter'. Today the land between the River Torridge and Taw are known as 'Tarka country' and a 'Tarka Trail' opened by the Prince of Wales in May 1992 covers many of the villages covered in Williamson's book.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his book' The Hound of the Baskervilles' on the bleak moorland of Dartmoor. His inspiration for the story is said to have come from the stories related to him about the moors by his guide Harry Baskerville.

Dame Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890. Today the famous crime writer is celebrated with a special exhibition at Torre Abbey in the Agatha Christie Memorial room. Her typewriter and many items of personal memorabilia have been donated by her daughter.

The Pilgrim Fathers left to start a new life in the 'New World' of America from the Mayflower Steps at Plymouth and Francis Drake is remembered for famously finishing his game of bowls before setting sail on the Golden Hinde to beat the Spanish Armada

Devon is a unique county with its own special charm which brings visitors back year after year.