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South Hams / Reino Unido

South Hams é um distrito de governo local de Devon, Inglaterra. A sua sede fica em Totnes. Outras cidades do distrito: Dartmouth, Kingsbridge, Ivybridge, e Salcombe. O distrito foi criado em 1 de Abril de 1974, pela Lei do Governo Local de 1972, pela fusão dos boroughs de Dartmouth e Totnes, dos distritos urbanos de Kingsbridge e Salcombe, e dos distritos rurais de Kingsbridge, Plympton St Mary e Totnes. A norte, fica o Dartmoor National Park, a leste Torbay, e a oeste Plymouth. A sua costa, ainda pouco explorada a sul, inclui os promontórios de Start Point e Bolt Head. Toda a linha costeira, juntamente com os vales de Avon e Dart, forma uma grande porção da South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. South Hams, e Broadsands em Paignton, é o último grande refúgio britânico da escrevedeira-de-garganta-preta.

Totnes Museum

South Hams / Reino Unido

Totnes Museum is a local museum in the town of Totnes, south Devon, in southwest England.The museum is housed with an Elizabethan merchant's house that was built c.1575 for the Kelland family. The house has many original features and has been carefully restored. Totnes Museum has twelve galleries, a courtyard, and a herb garden. The collections date from 5000BC onwards, including coins minted in Totnes during Saxon times, and concern the cultural, economic, and social history of Totnes.The galleries include a Babbage Room, presenting Charles Babbage, the Victorian mathematician who invented the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, mechanical precursors of the modern computer. Babbage spent his youth in Totnes and studied at King Edward VI Grammar School there. There is a Study Centre at the rear of the building which contains an archive of Totnes-related material - books, fiches, transcripts, photographs, and local newspapers from 1860 - of particular interest to those seeking information on Totnes history, buildings and their own family connections in the area. Experienced researchers are on hand to help on Thursdays and Fridays.

Britannia Royal Naval College

South Hams / Reino Unido

Britannia Royal Naval College , commonly known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth, Devon, England. Royal Naval officer training has taken place in Dartmouth since 1863. The buildings of the current campus were completed in 1905. Earlier students lived in two wooden hulks moored in the River Dart. Since 1998, BRNC has been the sole centre for Royal Naval officer training.

Devonshire Collection of Period Costume

South Hams / Reino Unido

The Devonshire Collection of Period Costume is a collection of historic costumes housed in the Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum in the town of Totnes, south Devon, in southwest England.The collection includes clothing for men, women, and children, dating from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. An annually updated exhibition is displayed in Bogan House, a Tudor merchant's house at 43 High Street, Totnes.