Buckfastleigh Open Air Pool Refurbishment - timelapse movie
Time-lapse film of the renovation of Buckfastleigh outdoor swimming pool - undertaken by volunteers and with funding provided by Sport England and the Friends of Buckfastleigh Pool.
(Music: She Seems Quite Free performed by The June Brides, written by Phil Wilson (Copyright Control) used with permission).
Buckfastleigh Open Air Swimming pool - the past
Memories of Buckfastleigh open air swimming pool by retired pool-keeper John French.
Buckfastleigh Ice Gala 2016
Buckfastleigh Ice Gala 2016 at Buckfastleigh Open Air Pool
Buckfastleigh Poolwatch
Spoof advert for Buckfastleigh Open Air Swimming Pool
Buckfastleigh and Surrounding Areas
Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK archive film footage.
Screened in Buckfastleigh 2018, in partnership with Villages In Action.
Holy Trinity Church ,Buckfastleigh Devon U.K
My visit to the Holy Trinity Church
Tales of hell-hounds hunting across the countryside are not uncommon in British folklore, and with the popularity of Conan Doyle 's The Hound of the Baskervilles the idea of giant beasts terrorising their prey has become part of our national consciousness. In Buckfastleigh in Devon one story -- said to be the origin of that particular Sherlock Holmes narrative -- is especially vivid, based on folk memories of that most delicious of villains, the wicked squire. So great is the legend surrounding him that he is even now thought of as a potential revenant -- a vampire.
The squire in question is Richard Capel, or sometimes Cabell, a local landowner in the 17th century known for his evil ways. Above all he was famed for capturing and keeping girls in one of his several properties well away from the gaze of his wife. He was said to hunt the terrified creatures with his pack of hounds, great black beasts, just as it was said he hunted poor children to death on the moors for sport.
His wealth and his violent reputation made Squire Capel untouchable as far as the weak authorities in the area were concerned. He is even said by some to have hunted down his own wife when she fled with her faithful dog, beating her to death when he tracked her down.
But if the earthly authorities could not deal with him, the supernatural eventually did. As Capel lay on his death bed the hounds of hell were said to be baying, waiting for him to come to them. His ghost still tries to escape them every year on midsummer's eve, racing across the ground ahead of the spectral pack.
When he did die the squire was buried beneath a giant stone altar on the south side of the church, the exit an iron gate facing Holy Trinity Church -- the iron, the sunny side of the building, the giant stone slab, all precautions against his return. Children still it seems when feeling brave and foolish circle the altar 13 times to try to wake him, and dare to poke a finger through the iron gate to see if he will gnaw it. Obviously they have never seen one of those horror movies that begin with just such a dare...After all, if he can make it out of the grave to be the hunted, what is to say he cannot escape to be the hunter too?
Buckfastleigh & Buckfast Abbey, Devon, England
Views of Buckfastleigh & Buckfast Abbey, Devon, England
Places to see in ( Buckfastleigh - UK )
Places to see in ( Buckfastleigh - UK )
Buckfastleigh is a small market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. It is part of Teignbridge and, for ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery.
It is a centre of tourism and is home to Buckfast Abbey, the South Devon Railway, the Buckfastleigh Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary, the Tomb of Squire Richard Cabell and The Valiant Soldier. With 13 letters, Buckfastleigh is the longest place name in England with no repeated letters, tied with Buslingthorpe, Leeds and Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Geographically, Buckfastleigh straddles the confluence of two small streams from Dartmoor which feed into the River Dart just to the east of the town. About one mile to the north lies Buckfast, home of Buckfast Abbey. To the northwest lie Holne and Scorriton on the southern breastwork of the Dartmoor upland. Pridhamsleigh Cavern is nearby and is neighboured by Ashburton and Lower Dean.
Historically Buckfastleigh has grown as a mill town known for its woollen mills, corn and paper mills and a tannery supported by the rivers Dart, Mardle and the Dean Burn – water being an essential natural resource used in the manufacturing of wool and other products. Buckfastleigh is medieval in origin, as is still evident in the original layout of the town. By the seventeenth century, most of the properties had been rebuilt, but the medieval layout, particularly in Fore Street, is still visible today.
Buckfastleigh town centre is now an area of mostly late eighteenth- to early twentieth-century buildings with an interesting collection of private dwellings, commercial and retail properties and public houses which retain many, if not all, of their original features, styles and character.
To the west of the town is the manor house of Brook, a grade II* listed building, built in 1656 by Richard Cabell (d.1677), lord of the manor of Brook. He was the subject of a local legend which relates that on the night of his death, black hounds breathing fire and smoke raced over Dartmoor and surrounded Brook House, howling. Cabbell's unusual tomb was allegedly designed to keep his restless spirit from roaming Dartmoor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) on this legend. The story's description of Baskerville Hall, however, is based on Cromer Hall in Norfolk.
The South Devon Railway Trust is a charitable organisation that operates a heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh in Devon, alongside the River Dart. The heritage railway itself is known as the South Devon Railway, named in honour of the South Devon Railway Company that originally built much of Devon's railway infrastructure, although its previous name of the Dart Valley Railway is sometimes still heard.
Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Canute in 1018. In 1147 it became a Cistercian abbey and was rebuilt in stone. In medieval times, the abbey became rich through fishing and trading in sheep wool, although the Black Death killed two abbots and many monks – by 1377 there were only fourteen monks at Buckfast.
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Buckfastleigh Ramblers v PlymVic
A good end to the season for Ramblers
The Buckfastleigh Drama Group
Here is a Slideshow of past production images performed by the Buckfastleigh Drama Group. You can visit their website at buckfastleighdramagroup.org.uk
Pridhamsleigh 2017
A trip down Pridhamsleigh Cavern to the divers lake and back as a circular route.
Buckfastleigh Variety Show 1988 - Ole King Cole
Dad at his finest. A born entertainer. Here he is performing Ole King Cole and telling the infamous Archibald Assholetorn joke. Made me smile so much watching this back. No idea what year this was. Other performers included Buckfastleigh Majorettes, Derek Ryder & Glyn Wilcox.
Buckfastleigh
Here I am doing a night vision vigil at a location in Buckfastleigh.There is 2 accounts of spirit activity.I did not feel any threat and felt welcome in this room
Tour of Britain Buckfastleigh
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Buckfastleigh Variety Night 1988 - Glyn Wilcox
Glyn's second song, showing the array of his talent. I can remember this so well, think I might have had a bit of a crush on him then lol
Buckfastleigh 1976 (carnivals & 'Its A Knock-Out')
This was an old cinefilm that was put on to video (excuse the naff music, not my doing)
The summer of 1976 was a scorcher. Heavily pregnant my mum created a wonderful carnival float for Buckfastleigh Football Club, painting the castle and making the papermache disney character heads. The float was so high they had to have someone on top raising the bunting with a broom. My dad was Donald Duck.
Also that year I was carnival princess, I was 5 years old and did NOT like the prince.
'Its A Knock-Out' was part of Buckfastleigh Carnival Week's activity held in Victoria Park. Fete opened by Larry Grayson
Ollie chiplin at buckfastleigh
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BUCKFASTLEIGH PUB CRAWL CHALLENGE w Liam and Jay
Isaac Dibbins Buckfastleigh