Walk pictures - Devon holiday (part 2)

Introduction

This is a continuation of part one.

I'm afraid there are an awful lot of church pictures this time, even compared to usual...

Wednesday

David took us in his car to see Ashton church. It's in a book of the best thousand (!) churches in the country.

Possibly rates one of the failblog 'I fixed it' macros.

1/30 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO800 50°39′1″N 3°37′10″W

Anglepoise lamp, plastic peg and pencil.

1/60 at f2, 23mm, ISO800 50°39′2″N 3°37′9″W

Stone steps up were marked with a fire extinguisher, which may possibly have been intended to discourage climbing the steps rather than as a convenient splash of colour.

View from the top of the steps.

1/250 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′1″N 3°37′11″W

Looking down at the extinguisher. (And my foot. There wasn't a whole lot of room.)

1/15 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′59″N 3°37′12″W

Nice white ceiling, beams and bosses (and heater).

1/8 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO800 50°39′1″N 3°37′10″W

Windowsill.

1/250 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′3″N 3°37′10″W

Outside looking at a window.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′1″N 3°37′8″W

Side door.

1/500 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′1″N 3°37′9″W

Graveyard.

1/500 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′2″N 3°37′10″W

Gate (to nowhere).

1/15 at f4, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′1″N 3°37′10″W

Sundial. (It was correct.)

1/250 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′2″N 3°37′8″W

Phone cables and bunting.

1/1000 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°39′2″N 3°37′7″W

In the afternoon Ian took us on a walk to Windy Cross, which is a road junction marked by an old stone cross.

Pretty countryside.

1/250 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°40′7″N 3°38′26″W

Traditionally constructied corrugated-roof outbuilding.

1/500 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°40′17″N 3°37′53″W

Windy Cross.

1/500 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°41′3″N 3°36′42″W

I did have pictures where you can actually see the cross, which is made of stone covered in patches of white and brown moss, but I like it better in the above picture even though you can barely see it. It's on a bank above the actual road junction. (All the roads in Devon have been sunk a metre or two below the surrounding land, to keep it interesting - otherwise, drivers might be able to see what's coming around the next corner.)

Incidentally, it was indeed fairly windy by the time we got there.

Cattle shed.

1/1000 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 50°40′55″N 3°37′51″W

Tree.

1/1000 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO200 50°40′33″N 3°37′53″W

Gate with telex number.

1/500 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO200 50°40′5″N 3°38′34″W

Thursday

Thursday started rather wet. Mum and I decided to walk to Bridford, another nearby village. It might have been more appropriate to borrow a submarine for the trip, but they wouldn't let us have one.

Bridford has a pub, which was closed in the morning, and even a shop, which was supposed to be open but wasn't. We dried off a bit in the church.

Slightly less ambiguous stair-blockage.

1/15 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO1600

Ring. They used to chain their Bible to this.

1/4 at f4, 23mm, ISO1600

Sadly it wasn't chained any more. Perhaps not surprising: even back then, if you did steal a church Bible, I'm not entirely sure how you would offload it.

After that we ventured back out into the downpour.

Rain. (If you can't see where the cloud starts, you're standing in it.)

1/160 at f8, 23mm, ISO800

Chimney, slates, moss, rain.

1/250 at f8, 23mm, ISO800

Stream / raging torrent.

1/15 at f2, 23mm, ISO400

Footbridge to houses on site of disused quarry.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO400

Gates, unstable electric fence, rain.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO400

In the afternoon, David took us on a drive to a small town called Kenton, which has another one of the top thousand churches. The church had recently suffered a flower festival, and some arrangements still remained.

Gravestone and flower. What happened to her jaw?

1/30 at f4, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′23″N 3°28′30″W

Flowers and window.

1/60 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO200 50°38′24″N 3°28′30″W

Nice (if annoyingly shiny) painting of Sidwella, a local saint.

1/20 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′24″N 3°28′29″W

Fancy screen.

1/15 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′24″N 3°28′30″W

White gap thingy through a corner.

1/15 at f4, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′23″N 3°28′28″W

Lectern.

1/30 at f4, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′23″N 3°28′29″W

Blackboard.

1/30 at f2, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′21″N 3°28′29″W

Big hexagonal stone thing.

1/125 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO800 50°38′24″N 3°28′30″W

Probably not an express train. (Symbol on gravestone on floor.)

1/30 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO400 50°38′25″N 3°28′29″W

Flowers, chest.

1/15 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO400 50°38′24″N 3°28′30″W

David examining the organ music. They had planned every hymn through to September.

1/15 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO400 50°38′24″N 3°28′29″W

Pillar and leaf.

1/15 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO200 50°38′24″N 3°28′30″W

We had intended to visit a stately home nearby but it was closing. Instead we had a quick look (in the rain again) at the outside of a church attached to its grounds.