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Celebrating Devon Day with your memories

28th May 2020

Categories: Visitor News

This week marks Devon Day, a day dedicated entirely to celebrating everything that is amazing about Devon! While we can’t celebrate like we would usually, we still wanted to mark the occasion, which is why we’re running a photo competition to see some of your best memories of being in Devon!

Running from the 1^st June until the end of Devon Day on the 4^th June, we’re looking for past visitors and current residents to share their favourite memories of Devon. Simply upload a photo of a visit to Devon pre-lockdown to Instagram, tag us (@visitDevon) and use the #Devonday20, we’ll selected our favourite ones and share them!

As well as your favourite photos of Devon, we’d love to read your stories and memories from past trips, you can get in touch with us on Twitter and Facebook and join in the discussion! We love spreading the word about this beautiful county, so even though we can’t welcome visitors right now, we want to reminisce, not that we need an excuse.

While we’re on the subject of Devon, here are some of our favourite facts about our favourite county!

Devon is home to the narrowest street in the world! That’s right, you can find Parliament Street in Exeter, there is even a plaque to say so!
Devon is home to England’s oldest bakery. Yes alright, London might have some old buildings and places like Dorset and Cornwall might claim to have bakeries dating back to before Queen Victoria’s reign, but in Plymouth, there is a bakery that made the biscuits that went on the Mayflower. It’s still there, but all their products were made on the morning of sale, so they’re not nearly as old as the business itself.
Speaking of historical goings on, did you know that Devon is the last place to host a witch trial? Though not as well documented here as in the states, witch trails happened all over the UK. The last English ones happened in Exeter in the 1680s.
The country’s only 16 sided house is in Devon. A La Ronde is now managed by the National Trust and has a room dedicated to shells inside. Make sure to check the National Trust’s latest information on opening before you head there.
Devon invented the Cornish Pasty. Sorry Cornwall, it’s true. The earliest record of the recipe dates back 500 years and is in a book published in Devon full of Devon based recipes. So, you know, it isn’t just cream tea that we do properly, its pasties too.

What are your favourite facts about Devon?

Let us know and don’t forget to share your memories of Devon for a chance to win our photography competition!