Visitors to the Devon town of Cockington enjoy a ride in a horse-drawn carriage past thatched-roof cottages. The bucolic county of Devonlargely farmland, woods, moor, and shorehas long served the British as an antidote to city life.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Heart of Devon," May/June 1998, National Geographic Traveler magazine)