Location, Location.

Whilst walking the dog over the big field beside Silverdale last night. The one that is now undder consideration for housing development, I was thinking what a great view of the village and the surrounding area any potential residents of a development will get. I dont think sometimes that we realise what a wonderful view of this part of Devon we get from the hills around the village, after all, if you get to the top of Criss Cross you can see all the way to the Sidmouth gap, The Exe estuary and Dartmoor on a clear day.Its no wonder that those tired of city and suburban life are prepared to spend so much of their incomes in order to live here.

I suppose I have been lucky in the locations I have lived in during my life. Having been born and lived for the first 37 years of my life in Silverton, I then relocated to the Ayr area of the Clyde coast in the west of Scotland and for the next 21 years had spectacular views across the Clyde estuary to the Isle Of Arran, the Ailsa Craig and the Mull of Kintyre in daily view. Both the residents of the Exe valley and the Clyde coast have been inclined to take their surroundings for granted