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If you enjoy this website you are sure to enjoy "The Book of Shaugh Parish" due to be published in October. For details click on the link below.

The Book of Shaugh Parish

Welcome one and all. If you have never heard of, or visited the Shaugh area here's your chance to find out about a Parish on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon. Why you may ask? The truth of the matter is that I'm a sentimental old softie who loves the area and because I've been given lots of old photographs of the district I decided to create this site so others could share my pleasure. In any case it was a choice between creating this website or spending my days washing, ironing, doing the housework, painting the fence or other incredibly exciting tasks like that. As you can imagine it was a difficult decision to make , but I chose the most important task in my opinion, although the wife might not agree.

However enough of the waffle.

These pages contain photographs and videos of the Shaugh Bridge/Shaugh Prior area where I lived between the ages of 4 and 15years of age. This was between 1949 and 1961. The area is on the south west slopes of Dartmoor, between 8 and 12 miles from Plymouth, depending where you are, and located between the villages of Bickleigh and Wotter.

I have split the web pages into 4 categories.

If you are not interested in reading about the history

you can view all the pictures and videos here!

On each page I have provided links to other pages which may be of interest to the viewer. None of the links to other pages are in any way connected to me.

To start you off have a look at the video below. It is a modern day tour of the Shaugh area that I made to go along with my book, "Memories of Childhood" At present there are no more copies of this book available

A video tour of the Shaugh area

Click on the arrow to start the video This map shows all the areas mentioned on this website

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland

If you have any old photographs of the Shaugh area and would like them included please send them as an attachment by email or by post

Comments or suggestions welcome

I took many of the photographs. Some were given me by the original owners and some were given to me in electronic form so I have no way of knowing who the original owners are.If you recognise any of the photographs on this site and you are the copyright owner please let me know and I will be happy to remove them or acknowledge you if you are happy for them to stay. Contact me, Don Balkwill memories@happyhome.plus.com

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