This was the day I learned what contour lines meant on a map. Lidwell Chapel is in a deep dell, off the B3192 above Dawlish. It is the location
of a rather grusome story.
Apparently a monk who lived at the chapel used to lure passing travellers in. Once there he would rob and murder them, disposing of the bodies in the well. The chapel became newsworthy in the late 1970s when a Bristol photographer who took a picture of the chapel found that the developed print revealed a fully formed chapel instead of the remains.
It is quite a strange place, and picture 4 shows what remains of the well head, which is basically a small spring. |
