AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND - 04: 'A DIVERSION TO RALEIGH’S BIRTHPLACE'
Continued from https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/06/around-town-and-over-pond-03-of-bikes.html AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND A walk around Budleigh Salterton to interest transatlantic visitors. Every so often there’s a diversion which may inspire you to visit places like East Budleigh, Exeter, Sidmouth, Colyton or even places in the United States and Canada. The walk is set out in parts. Here’s the fourth part: Still at the Raleigh Wall. 0.4 A DIVERSION TO RALEIGH’S BIRTHPLACE Historian Anna Beer poses next to 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' at Fairlynch Museum To find the real Walter Raleigh is not easy. Not just because he was a controversial complex character – ‘a liar who believed his own lies’ – as historian Anna Beer writes, but because so many facts about his life are uncertain. We’re not even sure of the year of his birth, accepted as between 1552 and 1554. Raleigh's birthplace, Hayes Barton. Image credit: Peter Bowler A...