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The Bude Storm Tower sat on Compass Point in Cornwall and was first built in the 1830s as a look-out. The iconic landmark was taken apart brick by brick before being rebuilt safer ground. ....
A Cornish tower is to be moved and reinstated brick by brick to avoid falling into the sea. The Storm Tower at Compass Point in Bude will be relocated a few hundred feet inland after the Bude-Stratton town council was awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £249,362. ....
Painting inspires Devon estate transformation Updated: June 16, 2021, 9:47 am A 400-year-old walking beech tree on the Killerton estate being surveyed by the National Trust (Fi Hailstone/National Trust/PA) A historic painting is helping to inspire a 50-year vision for the landscape of a Devon estate. The National Trust is taking inspiration from a 19th Century painting of the Killerton Estate in Devon to expand the habitat and create areas rich in wildlife. The painting, believed to be by the 11th Baronet Sir Thomas Dyke Acland whose family donated Killerton to the National Trust in 1944, depicts a diverse landscape rich in mature trees and hedgerows with areas of scrub with roaming highland cattle. ....