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I don't know how long these images will be available, so I thought I would share with you: In my video Devon Water, I included an image of a house in Croyde called Down End. It is under contract for sale right now, and the realtors have done a satellite image of the area. [url=http://www.knightfrank.co.uk/WS1036913#] Croyde[/url] Baggy Point, in the satellite image, can be found as a thumb like appendage sticking out to the upper left of the overall image. Zoom in on the area and you will see a large house on the flat back of the point. This page also gives excellent views of Down End, to the south, which is a beautiful place overlooking the Atlantic. This next page gives the history of Baggy Point at the bottom of the page. In 1939 Constance and Florence Hyde, Bear Feeney's relatives, returned the 240 acres that comprised the point back to the village, and Baggy is now managed by the Historical Trust. This page has more excellent pictures of Baggy, and another satellite image. [url=http://www.devoncam.co.uk/devon/places,57,Baggy-Point.htm]Baggy Pointl[/url] I hope you enjoy this. See if you can recognize some of the slabby areas Nino used as backgrounds, particularly the rocky inlet at the base of the point's cliffs. Does it remind you of Ulysses and the Sirens? The area is populated by ravens, peregrine falcons, and a number of seagulls circling the inlet.


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Thanks for sharing these ... it seems someone has the property under offer - how fortunate for them to perhaps soon own such a wonderful home.
[url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Mt8uAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover][i]The Coasts of Devon and Lundy Island: Their Towns, Villages, Scenery[/i][/url] by John Lloyd Warden Page was published in 1895. Information about Croyde, Croyde Bay and Baggy Point begins on page 126. I enjoyed looking through a book that was published during the time Waterhouse and his family were enjoying the area. It is such a wonderful part of the world.
A link directly to the page that mentions [url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Mt8uAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPA128,M1]the red house of the artist...[/url] which speaks of the red brick house that seems to have finally conformed to the village's predilection for white, white, white...


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