If you are looking for professional jewellers in or around Devon,
F. Hinds could be your choice!
You can visit any one of the following four F. Hinds shops in Devon:
Barnstaple (High Street)
Barnstaple (Green Lanes Centre)
Our staff are looking forward to seeing you at your next visit to one of our stores.
Something about Devon
The county of Devon take its name from the Celtic tribe that lived there - the Dumnonii, whose name means 'the deep ones' perhaps because they lived in the steep valleys of Devon or were known for their mining. The old English form of the tribal name was Definas.
Devon includes the western end of Exmoor and the whole of the granite mass of Dartmoor, the highest land in the country.
Famous for
Devon is the only county in Britain with two separate coastlines.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901, a tale that highlights the mysteriousness of Dartmoor.
The Tarka Trail in North Devon is a 280km network of paths and cycle tracks that follows the journeys of Tarka the Otter, as recounted in Hugh Williamson's book Tarka the Otter (1927).
Famous people
Sir Francis Drake, navigator, the first Britain to sail around the world, born Crowndale, near Tavistock, c.1540.
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, victor at the Battle of Blenheim (1704), born Exmouth, 1650.
Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the steam engine, born Dartmouth, 1663.
Christopher Anthony John (Chris) Martin, musician and lead singer, Coldplay, born Exeter, 1977.