Budleigh Past and Present

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...

Are you free on Saturday evening 18 May? Come and enjoy a community event supporting these two very good causes.   East Budleigh residents will be celebrating the village's two famous sons SIR WALTER RALEIGH and ROGER CONANT (founder of Salem, Massachusetts) with an ELIZABETHAN EVENING.    Dressing in period costume is not mandatory but if you feel the need, you’ll be very welcome to join those who do. We can guarantee that the company will be more cheerful than this glum lot.  Supper will be based on meals of the period, but sorry, no roast swan.   During the meal you will be amazed by tricks performed by Damian Surr, a member of the Magic Circle.    Damian is not planning to be in costume like Queen Elizabeth’s own conjurer Dr John Dee but he is likely to be more entertaining. And if you're lucky you'll win one of these amazing prizes in the Raffle, so do remember to bring cash.  A £30 voucher for a tour of Lily Fa...

  A Lesson with Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight, wherein are discussed divers Topics of Great Importance for young Scholars in all Partes of the World to-day, and principally for the young Scholars of the Academy of Brixington in the fair Town of Exmouth, following their visit to the Church of All Saints  in Budley   The fair Town of Exmouth that ye see here is proud of its fine Academy of learning in the village of Brixington.   ‘Twas from here that the learned schoolmistress Dame Sarah did aske us that we should speake to her young scholars of the said Academy when they did visit our home village of Budley.   Photo by Christine Chittock Naturally for our meting in the Church of All Saints did we weare our finest apparel and other accoutrements: our fur-lined cloak, our pearl-encrusted doublet, accompanied by our pipe, our best beard, our rapier and our most extreme arrogance. The scholars of Brixington were much delighted and impressed. And t...